A Web-based Tool for Collaborative Access to Scientific Instruments in Cyberinfrastructures

Ranon, Roberto; Marco, Luca De; Senerchia, Augusto; Gabrielli, Silvia; Chittaro, Luca; Pugliese, Roberto; Caño, Laura del; Asnicar, Fabio; Prica, Milan

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-09663-6_16

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“…The current version of the Instrument Element developed in DORII, (IE2) is a set of WS-I compliant web services virtualizing the concept of instrument and sensor and presenting this as a grid component compatible with the EGEE gLite software. The VCR [14] is a Grid portal that allows registered users interactive access to all the DORII Grid resources, providing them with additional collaboration services like e-Logbook, video and audio conferences, etc. The VCR should support DORII applications with scripts and workflows through an external workflow management system (Wf-Man System), a native client application launcher and a tunnelling technology, which can be used to integrate application components and to support interactivity.…”

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The DORII project test bed: Distributed eScience applications at work

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Cheptsov

Davoli

et al. 2009

2009 5th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks &Amp; Communities An

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Much interest has arisen recently on the access to and management of remote instrumentation and laboratory equipment in general. The complexity of activities related to these topics can be summarized under the name of Remote Instrumentation Services, where the term "instrumentation" includes any kind of experimental equipment, and the term "services" underlines the general framework whereby the instrumental resources should be accessed (i.e., the Service Oriented Architecture). Building on the foundations of previous European projects, the aim of DORII (Deployment of Remote Instrumentation Infrastructure) is to build and operate a test bed addressing different areas of eScience. These include oceanographic applications, earthquake engineering, and largescale physics experiments on synchrotron light. The paper describes the characteristics and the design of the test bed stemming from the applications' requirements, in terms of networking and middleware, and its current status of development.

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The DORII project test bed: Distributed eScience applications at work

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Davoli

et al. 2009

2009 5th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks &Amp; Communities An

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“…The goal of such application is to provide an integration of the instruments and numerical model within the DORII e-Infrastructure. This is the first step towards the realization of a prototype of a Grid portal, based on the Virtual Control Room developed in the framework of GRIDCC project (Ranon et al, 2008), which will offer a direct and customized access to the Grid resources and services for the OGS researchers involved in the instruments or model management and use. Requirements from this group of users have been examined during the evaluation processes carried out within DORII.…”

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Preliminary deployment of Grid-assisted oceanographic applications

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“…As a Grid Web portal, we have developed the Virtual Control Room (VCR) [10]. Its aim is to provide the user with access to Grid resources and services through a single login from a Web browser.…”

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The Grid as a Software Application Provider in a Synchrotron Radiation Facility

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Prica

Kourousias

et al. 2010

Remote Instrumentation Services on the E-Infrastructure

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In this chapter we introduce the concept of the Grid as an Application Service Provider. We discuss the implementation and deployment of a fully operational system in a Synchrotron Radiation Facility. The Grid is traditionally used for HTC computations and not often as a provider for Software on Demand; especially for non-Grid specific GUI based applications. As a computing paradigm, the Grid is successfully utilised by the experimental scientific community. Due to the data-parallelism of the computational problems in the general field of physical sciences and the very high data volumes in terms of storage, the Grid has been closely related to High Throughput and High Performance Computing (HTC/HPC). A substantial number of software applications in the form of scientific computing utilities that do not require HPC are used in Synchrotron labs and other similar establishments. We envisioned a common web portal where the lab user can access a defined set of pre-configured scientific computing applications 1 that rely on Grid resources. The pilot application has been in the SRF Elettra. 2 The model and the intermediate subsystems have been developed and suitably configured. In this chapter we propose (1) a "Software as a Service" model (SaaS) as an alternative deployment for these applications, (2) we introduce an infrastructure where our SaaS model is fully integrated to the Grid -utilising remote computation and storage resources, (3) we outline our technology layout that enables interactivity, transparent access to storage, Web Grid portals, virtual collaboration environments and remote access to SRF instrumentation. M. Prica (B)

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A Web-based Tool for Collaborative Access to Scientific Instruments in Cyberinfrastructures

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

The DORII project test bed: Distributed eScience applications at work

The DORII project test bed: Distributed eScience applications at work

Preliminary deployment of Grid-assisted oceanographic applications

The Grid as a Software Application Provider in a Synchrotron Radiation Facility

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