Description
Earth Science (ES) is an all-embracing term for sciences related to planet Earth, covering a large and diverse user community, academy, European and international organisation as well as industry. The phenomena under study are dependent on geographical coordinates, altitude and time. This community has set up an active collaboration with teams on a worldwide basis and is accustomed to work in a distributed manner. In the past years the ES applications have shown an increasing need for access to intensive computing facilities and to large and heterogeneous sets of data. Besides the deployment of applications the community developed application specific grid- and web services.
The applications deployed on the EGEE infrastructure reflect the variety of scientific ES disciplines like atmospheric chemistry, climate, hydrology, meteorology pollution, solid earth physics and the different user communities like academia, European organisation, civil protection and industry. As shown, Grid provides more computing resources to the user and is also a way of sharing data, algorithm and of developing common tools. Even if EGEE is very suitable for intensive data processing and production, statistical approach, job on alert, simulation and modelling, the interface between ES environment and Grid middleware is not simple for many applications and developments. The 4th User Forum will give an excellent overview about the solutions implemented by the Earth Science community. The presentations will give a very interesting outline about the different research activities in Earth Science.
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Dr Monique Petitdidier (IPSL/CETP)04/03/2009, 11:00Scientific results obtained using grid technologyOralThe ES community with its variety of disciplines has not yet adopted the Grid technology. Some reasons are the lack of awareness and knowledge about Grid, the perceived complexity of the Grid middleware and finally technical barriers related to data policies, different environments or access to data centres. To deal with this we provide examples of applications that already provided results...Go to contribution page
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Roberto Cossu (European Space Agency)04/03/2009, 11:20Planned or on-going scientific work using the gridOralData plays a key role in the earth science (ES) domain. ES data, services, results, and tools are accessible in a scattered and uncoordinated way. GENESI-DR is setting up a research infrastructure for discovering and accessing, via a user-friendly interface, ES data and services stored at different locations. Interfacing GENESI-DR with the EGEE middleware would allow scientists to exploit ES...Go to contribution page
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Mr Gael Youinou (CGGVeritas)04/03/2009, 11:40Experiences from application porting and deploymentOralEGEODE is an initiative to create a VO dedicated to research in Geosciences for both industrial R&D and Academic Labs. This presentation will explain the main benefits of this Grid Computing emerging technology for geosciences. Then it will introduce EGEODE VO, give an overview of all applications already ported on the Grid infrastructure and running on this VO. It will detail the usage made...Go to contribution page
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Dr Nicolas Ray (University of Geneva, Switzerland)04/03/2009, 12:00Planned or on-going scientific work using the gridOralThe Black Sea Catchment is recognized for its ecologically unsustainable development and inadequate resource management. The FP7-funded EnviroGRIDS project will address these issues by developing a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) targeting this region and linked to the EGEE infrastructure. A large catalog of environmental data sets (e.g. landuse, hydrology, climate) will be gathered and used...Go to contribution page