GRIDA3—a shared resources manager for environmental data analysis and applications

Abstract

GRIDA3 (Shared Resources Manager for Environmental Data Analysis and Applications) is a multidisciplinary project designed to deliver an integrated system to forge solutions to some environmental challenges such as the constant increase of polluted sites, the sustainability of natural resources usage and the forecast of extreme meteorological events. The GRIDA3 portal is mainly based on Web 2.0 technologies and EnginFrame framework. The portal, now at an advanced stage of development, provides end-users with intuitive Web-interfaces and tools that simplify job submission to the underneath computing resources. The framework manages the user authentication and authorization, then controls the action and job execution into the grid computing environment, collects the results and transforms them into an useful format on the client side. The GRIDA3 Portal framework will provide a problemsolving platform allowing, through appropriate access policies, the integration and the sharing of skills, resources and tools located at multiple sites across federated domains

Real‐time imaging and data analysis for shallow seismic data using a cloud‐computing portal

“…GRIDA3 currently hosts five geoscience portals that focus on hydrology, meteorology, site remediation, geographical information systems and seismic imaging (Murgia et al . ). Each of these portals allows a registered user to login, to browse services and documentation and to interact with the individual services, like a conventional desktop application.…”

Grid Technology Reliability for Flash Flood Forecasting: End-user Assessment

“…Moreover, the geospatial datasets are mainly multi-dimensional, which requires complex and intensive-computing treatments. In operational context, stakeholders need to easily access data collected by remote equipments [37] and to develop "What-if" scenarios in order to assess intensity of coming hazards [35]. This work is based on the results of researches on environmental problem-solving based on Grid technology.…”

“…This work is based on the results of researches on environmental problem-solving based on Grid technology. As mentioned in [8,18,20,25,37], Grid appears as an efficient technological solution to integrate factual data and dedicated tools among multiple stakeholders through an e-collaboration portal and throughout the expertise process [30,37]. exhibit the Sardinian Grid infrastructure, GRIDA3, dedicated to enable the sharing of skills, tools and resources for multiple environmental topics, in particular hydrology.…”

“…The uncertainties of small-scale meteorological forecasts, also used in this research, imply, as suggested by [25], to develop a Grid-enabled platform in charge of modelling different hydrological scenarios based on various determinist and probabilistic meteorological forecasts. Such scientific orientation is also suggested by [37] in order to (1) guarantee a minimal set of useful simulations in case of computing errors and (2) allow "parallel testing of alternative parameter settings". Finally, the use of Grid technology to compute high number of independent simulations is also shared by [17]; the OpenSHA platform generates seismic hazard maps on approx.…”

“…The seminar of Crisis Management Initiative group held at Helsinki on 11-14 September 2003 defined the challenge of interoperability in crisis management as the connection of participants playing different roles at different locations with specific information requirements but following the same sequence of the crisis events. The design of Grid architecture, as e-collaboration platform gathering heterogeneous resources in a "unified large-scale computational resource" [21], seems to make this interoperability issue possible [8,18,30,33,37]. Following this idea, scientists and experts in hydrology could be gathered in a dedicated virtual organization.…”