The Use Of E-Science Grids To Support ORION
Larry Smarr. In International Science Planning Workshop on the Dynamics of Earth and Ocean Systems (DEOS): Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks (ORION), sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (Canada), January 4-8, 2004, Puerto Rico.
Abstract
We are at a point of major change in the way in which data-intensive science in carried out. Modern sensors of all kind are capable of gathering data at an ever growing rate. Whereas these scientific instruments used to store the data they produced locally and only later would some “cleaned up” version of the date be placed in a networked data archive, much more frequently today’s instruments are sending their data and instrument profiles directly into networked federated repositories available to anyone on the World Wide Web. In the near future, this will evolve into a distributed Data Grids managed by middleware sitting over the networked instruments, computers, and data storage systems. This allows user-defined software to be written which can automatically retrieve linked data sets generated by multiple instruments worldwide.