[AG-TECH] AG related Alliance Expedition Strategies
ballance at ahpcc.unm.edu
ballance at ahpcc.unm.edu
Wed May 8 14:24:24 CDT 2002
I am *most* interested!
... bob
Rick Stevens writes:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have been thinking about proposing an Alliance Expedition to prototype
> "Scientific Group Workspaces of the Future". The goal of this expedition
> will be to form a collaboration between technology developers and end
> users to develop and deploy next generation collaborative and remote
> visualization tools that meet the needs of specific science and education
> projects in the context of the National Computational Science Alliance and
> the NSF PACI program in general. The idea is to build on the successful
> widespread deployment of the Access Grid and to:
>
> 1. Further develop the concept of Access Grid Virtual Venues to support
> Grid based access to domain oriented problem solving environments (e.g.
> Bioengineering, Neural Imaging and Simulation, Chemical Engineering,
> Nanoscience, and Computational Molecular Biology, Structural Biology,
> Systems Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, etc.). This will require
> developing new ways to host "access portals" via the Access Grid and to
> develop collaborative interfaces to exsiting PSEs, workbenchs and tools.
>
> 2. Extend the concept of AG Virtual Venues to support access to
> high-performance remote visualization services. The idea here is to
> enable Tiled Displays to become first class Access Grid nodes that can
> exploit a Streaming Visualization related services component of future
> Virtual Venues. One way in which this could be used is to link Tiled
> Display systems to one or more parallel visualization servers in the same
> way that current Access Grid nodes are linked to each other via
> audio/video Venue services.
>
> 3. Develop Virtual Venue services that can support collaborative group
> oriented interfaces to instruments. Targets here could include
> microscopes, shake tables, APS beamlines, etc. The group interfaces could
> be used for collaborative research and for educational purposes. A
> variety of specific application/interface sharing modalities need to be
> explored. One idea would be to leverage ongoing work at ANL to build
> "workspace docking" capabilities targeting the on-demand integration of
> personal workspaces with AG related group workspaces, enabling AG uses
> to "bring their instrument to work".
>
> 4. Deploy a number of domain related resources to the community via
> enhanced Virtual Venue services (e.g. persistent support for documents,
> hosted and remote applications, databases, and other tools), and new AG
> client applications including remote visualization clients for existing AG
> nodes and AG enabled Tiled Displays. The idea here would be to use the
> new capabilities and services developed in this Expedition to deploy some
> prototype domain resource Grids. We would like to see these prototype
> domain resource Grids being used to support ongoing research, education
> and training.
>
> If you are interested in participating in and/or discussing this
> Expedition let me know. We will be seeking out interested individuals and
> groups at the Alliance All Hands Meeting this week to put together a
> formal proposal. The Alliance Expeditions are designed to connect
> technology producers and technology consumers through innovative
> collaborative projects. Funding is likely to be limited to those that are
> currently partners of the Alliance, however there is a provision for
> self-funded collaborators to enable expeditions to include additional
> groups outside of the current partnership community if they have their own
> resources.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Rick
>
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