Speaker
Description
Detailed analysis
The presentation will explore the e-Infrastructure requirements of experimental scientists and will provide an overview of the current projects involved in the field. The major goal is to demonstrate a prototype system developed by the project DORII (www.dorii.eu). Although the results are addressed to scientists who are using expensive equipment, the authors plan to use the same approach to control small devices and sensors which are used in future Internet technologies. The most obvious advantage of this approach is that one can exploit the storage and processing capabilities that the classical data and computing ecosystem offers. By representing the instrument as a service and integrating it with other services through well-understood protocols, it becomes straightforward to directly store experimental data to arbitrary locations world-wide, replicate them in multiple locations, and perform post-processing, that previously took days or months, in only a fraction of the time.
Impact
The architecture proposed by the DORII project allows to integrate various type of applications, which daily use instruments to collect data. The data are used for further analysis and simulations. The natural integration is to have a unified infrastructure including sensors, instruments, grid, visualisation and data repositories. This is permitted by the DORII framework. It is worth mentioning that nearly all ESFRI communities are using some instruments, and the goal of these communities is the better use of the existing infrastructure.
Conclusions and Future Work
The DORII community is aiming in the near future to define some ESFRI related use cases, and to adopt the current architecture for their needs.
| URL for further information | www.dorii.eu |
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| Keywords | instrument, sensors, experimental science, workflow |
