Driving eResearch Across the Pacific - 2009
Date and time
This workshop was held November 12, 2009 - November 13, 2009, in conjunction with the eResearch Australasia conference in Sydney, Australia.
Aims
The workshop aimed to drive collaboration between research groups in Australia and the United States through innovative applications using the advanced cyberinfrastructure involving the exchange facility of Pacific Wave, the SXTransport network, the AARNet national network, US Research and Education Networks, and the nation-wide grids in Australia and the US.
Outcomes
The development of action plans for the infrastructure/service providers (AARNet / PacificWave / ARCS / ANDS / NCI) to enhance/refine their service offerings to support the emerging AU-US eResearch Collaboration requirements articulated during the workshop. The showcasing of existing collaborations or promoting of new collaborations and their use of network resources to further their research.
Session format
The workshop had sessions covering astronomy, high-energy physics, geosciences, marine systems, climate change, Green IT/Smart Grids. In general, for each session, a researcher from the US and one (or two) from Australia gave a presentation on their area (see below) followed by a participative discussion led by the session chair and actively involving workshop attendees.
What we asked presenters/discussion leaders to do
As far as practicable, the US and Australian counterparts should engage with each other beforehand to avoid overlap. Between them, they should outline their vision for emerging e-research collaboration opportunities and innovations that can be facilitated/enhanced by the evolving transport, computing, grid, storage, curation, and visualisation infrastructures and services (recognising that the different areas will have different needs). They should open up the opportunity for discussion by the workshop participants by highlighting key issues. The aims for each presenter should be as follows:
- To highlight their science and its success' so far and how their work utilizes advanced cyberinfrastructure
- Identify potential ITC barriers to ongoing success
- Paint a picture of the future for their research in the next 3 to 5 years and what demands it may create for cyberinfrastrcture
- Identify concrete experiments or demonstrations which will utilize and/or stress the infrastructure within 12-24 months
Program Steering Committee
- Guido Aben, AARNet
- Paul Bonnington, Monash University
- Jacqueline Brown, PacificWave
- Chris Hancock, AARNet (Co-Chair)
- Ed Lazowska, University of Washington
- Patricia McMillan, University of Queensland
- John Silvester, USC/ Translight-PacificWave (Co-Chair)
2009 Presentations
The list of presentations is as follows:
Cloud Computing- Mixing the Grid and Clouds: High-throughput Science using the Nimrod Tool Family
David Abramson, Monash University - Cloud-based Computation and Collaboration: The Challenge for IT Infrastructure
Greg Bell, Lawrence Berkeley Labs
- Australia-ATLAS: an LHC site in the grid outback
Tim Dyce, University of Melbourne (LHC) - Computing Challenges for High Energy Physics
Anthony Waugh, University of Sydney - Petascale Distributed Computing Challenges in High Energy Physics
Paul Avery, University of Florida
- LSST and the Cloud: Astro Collaboration in 2016
Tim Axelrod, LSST - Going Coast-to-Coast at the Speed of Light: Continental-scale Real-time Radio Astronomy
Steven Tingay, Curtin University
- Around the world with Underworld - distributed development and collaboration in computational geodynamics
Louis Moresi, Monash University - Building a Virtual Geological Observatory
Dietmar Muller, University of Sydney - GEON - The Geosciences Network
Mark Gahegan, University of Auckland
- The Australian Integrated Marine Observing System: Present and Future Possibilities
Roger Proctor, IMOS - NSF's Ocean Observatories Initiative and its Precursors
Tony Haymet, Scripps - The US's Ocean Observatories Initiative
Ron Johnson, University of Washington and PNWGP
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Towards a Green Internet
Rodney Tucker, University of Melbourne - Recovering Stranded Capacity in the Data Center
Greg Bell, Lawrence Berkeley Labs
The final report for the workshop can be downloaded here