CSIG 10 Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists

1. CSIG 10Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists August 9-13, 2010 San Diego

2. Welcome and Introductions Chaitan Baru SDSC

3. CSIG Goals • From original CSIG proposal to NSF (2004): • “As geoscientists prepare themselves to take advantage of the state-of-the-art information technology resources in their daily research activities, and get ready for the cyberinfrastructure era, a significant community need is arising to rapidly train and educate large groups of earth scientists in critical IT opportunities and issues.” • “A series of lectures that will introduce current IT topics, and provide hands-on exercises with expert guidance, to provide the scientists a “jump-start” in critical IT areas.”

4. “…take advantage of IT in daily research activities…” • What will ESRI, Google, Bing, Amazon, Landmark, etc already do for you? • What will some other open source project already do for you, e.g. GMT, …? • What may you have to do for yourself?

5. A prototypical Geoinformatics use case • A user request of the form: “For a given region (i.e. lat/long extent, plus depth), return a 3D structural model with accompanying physical parameters of density, seismic velocities, geochemistry, and geologic ages, using a cell size of 10km”

6. CSIG Goals and Objectives • Introduce state of the art cyberinfrastructure and information technology concepts to geoscientists who are interested in geoinformatics • Or, Computer Scientists working on geoscience projects • Introduce key technology concepts, and demonstrate their implementation via examples of existing cyberinfrastructure implementations

7. Content Goals • From original proposal: “The Summer Institute will be organized around courses on topics that are most relevant to the current needs of geoscientists. These include courses in”: • Data management • Web Services • Grid technology • Geographic Information Systems • Parallel processing • Scientific Workflows

8. Institute Statistics • ~230 alumni • 3-7 non-US attendees each year (Mexico, Japan, Korea, Ireland, Turkey, New Zealand,…)

9. Instructors: Non-SDSC (23) San Diego • Bock, Yehuda, SIO (1) • Graham, John, SDSU (1) • Kilb, Debi, SIO (2) • Kuester, Falko, UCSD (1) • Walter, Fabian, SIO (1) Non-San Diego • Ahern, Tim, IRIS (1) • Allison, Lee, AZGS (1) • Arrowsmith, Ramon, ASU (3) • Clark, Ryan, AZGS (1) • Davis, Lynne, DLESE (1) • Erickson, Susan, UNAVCO, (1) • Fox, Peter, NCAR (2) • Gates, Ann, UTEP (2) • Keller, Randy, UTEP/UOK (3) • Kirk, Karin, Carleton U. (1) • Maechling, Phil, SCEC (2) • Meertens, Chuck, UNAVCO, (2) • Middleton, Don, NCAR (1) • Miller, Chris, Purdue, (1) • Rees, Allister, U. Arizona (1) • Richards, Steve, AZGS (1) • Sinha, Krishna, VaTech (2) • Weir, Stuart, UNAVCO (2)

10. Instructors: SDSC (22) • Altintas, Ilkay (5) • Baru, Chaitan (5) • Bhatia, Karan (3) • Condit, Christopher (1) • Crosby, Christopher (3) • Ding, Longjiang (1) • Jaeger, Efrat (2) • Kaiser, Tim (1) • Krishnan, Sriram (4) • Lin, Kai (6) • Ludaescher, Bertram (2) • Memon, Ashraf (4) • Memon, Ghulam (2) • Minor, David (1) • Moreland, John (3) • Nadeau, David (3) • Nandigam, Viswanath (2) • Seber, Dogan (3) • Valentine, David (1) • Wahadj, Reza (1) • Whitenack, Tom (1) • Zaslavsky, Ilya (4)

11. Topics Covered: 2004-2007 • 2004 • Data Management • Web Services • GIS • Grid Services • Parallel Programming • 2005 • Data Management • Web Services • GIS • Knowledge Representation • 2006 • Web Services • Knowledge Representation • GIS • Workflow Systems • Integration scenarios • 2007 • Use case scenarios • Web Services • Visualization Systems (IDV) • Workflow Systems • Community efforts • Usability

12. Topics Covered: 2008 • Use case scenarios • Data integration / X-Informatics • Visualization: OpenEarth Framework (OEF) and GEON IDV • Portals Web Services (at a high level) • Available resources with examples, e.g. CUAHSI HIS, SCEC, • GEON LiDAR processing, OpenTopography portal • Data integration, • Scientific workflows

13. Topics Covered: 2009 • Split into concurrent “Build Track” and “Education Track • Cover same/similar material from different perspective: understanding the technology vs using in education • Build Track • Web Services, GeoSciML, Portals, OpenTopography technology, Visualization open source tools and OEF • Overview of Cloud computing • Education Track • Using EarthScope data in education; LiDAR for K-12 and undergrad classes; Visualization tools for education

15. CSIG10: Overall Structure • Plenary talks in the AM sessions • One from science perspective • One from cyberinfrastructure / technology perspective • Build and Education Tracks in the PM session • Build Track • Build: Learn a bit more about the technologies “behind the scene” • Education Track • Education: Learn about how to use existing cyberinfrastructure resources in (undergraduate / graduate) education • Science and education talks by external faculty • Technology talks by members of the ACID group at SDSC (Advanced CyberInfrastructure Development)

16. CSIG10 Schedule • Monday • Introduction to cyberinfrastructure and geoinformatics • Poster session and demos • Tuesday - Thursday • Format • AM: Plenary talks on science and related technologies • PM: Build and Education Tracks • Topics • Tue: EarthScope science and CI • Wed: Topography and remote sensing data • Thurs: Integrated Earth Models • Friday • Summary, discussions, planning for collaborations, etc. • Machine room tour

17. Schedule

18. CSIG Acknowledgements • Dr. Margaret Leinen, ex-Assistant Director, NSF/GEO • Summer institute idea arose from a discussion with Dr. Leinen in 2003 re. a training program in CI for geoscientists • GEON • GEON started as an NSF ITR (IT Research) project focused on “integration” of heterogeneous (geologic + geophysical), multidimensional earth science data • GEON ITR was a collaboration among 12 PI institutions

19. Acknowledgements: CSIG10 CSIG Faculty, non-SDSC: • Prof. Ramon Arrowsmith, ASU • Robert DeGroot, SCEC • Prof. Matt Fouch, ASU • Deborah Kane, SIO, UCSD • Prof. Randy Keller, U. of Oklahoma • Dr. Deborah Kilb, SIO, UCSD • Prof. Steve Reynolds, ASU • Sarah Robinson, ASU • Prof. Peter Selkin, UW Tacoma SDSC: • Christopher Crosby • Dr. Sriram Krishnan • Dr. Kai Lin • John Moreland • Dr. David Nadeau • Viswanath Nandigam • Susan Rathbun Others • Charles Cowart • Minh Phan • Dr. Choonhan Youn

20. Acknowledgements: Demos • Matthew Arrott, Mike Meisinger • NSF Ocean Observing Initiative (OOI) • Yehuda Bock et al • GPS Explorer and Earthquake Early Warning • Yifeng Cui • Use of HPC for SCEC (Southern California Earthquake Center) simulations • Amit Majumdar, Dongju Choi • OnDemand Earthquake Simulations • Ilya Zaslavsky • CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System • Rob Newman, Frank Vernon • USArray

21. Acknowledgement to NSF • National Science Foundation • CSIG has been funded each year as a supplement to GEON, since 2004 • GEON is currently funded by the NSF under grant #0722449

22. LOGISTICS • Breakout groups: Build vs Education • Facilities • Lunch • Presentations will be put online • CSIG Dinner, Thursday, Dec 12th • Venue: The Meeting Rooms at 15 • Anything else…?

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