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Grid Enabled Collaboratory for Scientific Research

Grid Enabled Collaboratory for Scientific Research. Charles Severance Executive Director, Sakai Foundation Shaping Collaboration 2006 Geneva, Switzerland December 11-13, 2006. Basic Idea of GECSR. Collect and integrate user interface and collaborative technology into a LHC science gateway

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Grid Enabled Collaboratory for Scientific Research

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  1. Grid Enabled Collaboratory for Scientific Research Charles Severance Executive Director, Sakai Foundation Shaping Collaboration 2006 Geneva, Switzerland December 11-13, 2006

  2. Basic Idea of GECSR • Collect and integrate user interface and collaborative technology into a LHC science gateway • Joint between Atlas and CMS IT • Fund *outside* of CMS/Atlas streams • Proposal in 2004 - not funded

  3. GESCR Proposal • Suggestion from the NSF Physics directorate to create a CMS/Atlas joint IT effort • Planned: Four years - Medium ITR (NSF) • Partners: Caltech, Fermilab, Florida International University, Lawrence Berkeley, Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Texas Austin, University of Iowa

  4. HENP: Unique Aspects • Already highly collaborative as a scientific field • Globally distributed in space and time (both time-zones and years) • Technology savvy but wary :) • Solutions for data and compute underway without significant user interface component

  5. GESCR in a sentence.. ….. will combine the best open-source applications from within the HENP communities (and from allied Grid and National Middleware efforts) within a common portal interface. Put another way: There is a lot of work going on in HENP that does not really have much of a user interface yet. We want to put a user interface on the Grid and other activities.

  6. GESCR in a sentence.. ….. will combine the best open-source applications from within the HENP communities (and from allied Grid and National Middleware efforts) within a common portal interface. What I tell people: GESCR will be a tri-corder for the Atlas and CMS collaborations. Starting with inter-human communication and moving towards data processing and analysis.

  7. Elements of GESCR • Sakai with Grid Support (from OGCE / NEESGrid) • Sakai Collaboration Tools • Well funded analysis of application, requirements, and challenges throughout the project • Additional new capabilities • VRVS Integration (rooms, record, playback) • Web Lecture Archive (WLAP) • VNC support

  8. GESCR Elements (cont) • MonaLisa integration • Collaborative LaTeX editing environment • Peer-to-Peer file sharing • Language of Access to handle “over-collaboration” • Adaption of HEPBook • GESCR support office (Y3) • Education and outreach activities

  9. Summary • Model was good • Collaborative portals is a well-funded and well-coordinated activity (SAKAI, JISC, DEST, …) collaborative software is improving in general • Perhaps CI will break the logjam at NSF and fund better cross-disciplinary activities which result in user interfaces for eScience and in particular Atlas/CMS • This workshop is a good start to reenergize the thinking around the GECSR

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