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Computing Research Association Conference at Snowbird 2000 Slides from a workshop on the topic of http://www.cra.org/Activities/snowbird/00/wk4-1.html “The Relationship Between Computer and Computational Science” presented by Sidney Karin, University of California, San Diego
Transcript of Computing Research Associationarchive.cra.org/Activities/snowbird/00/karin-crawk4-1.pdf · 2012. 4....
Computing Research AssociationConference at Snowbird 2000
Slides from a workshopon the topic of
httpwwwcraorgActivitiessnowbird00wk4-1html
ldquoThe Relationship Between Computerand Computational Sciencerdquo
presented by
Sidney KarinUniversity of California San Diego
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
CRA Conference Snowbird 2000Snowbird Utah
July 11 2000
Sid Karin DirectorNPACI and SDSC
The Relationship Between ComputerScience and Computational Science
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Relationship Between ComputerScience and Computational Science
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputer science is the computer
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Relationship Between ComputerScience and Computational Science
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputational biology is living systems
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Relationship Between ComputerScience and Computational Science
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputer science is the computer
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputational biology is living systems
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Theory Theory
The Computational Science Continuum
SimulationSimulation
ExperimentExperiment
Data-intensive computing(mining)
Data-intensive
computing(assimilation)
Numericallyintensivecomputing
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
MICE Transparent Supercomputingbull Molecular Interactive
CollaborativeEnvironment
bull Gallery allowsresearchers studentsto search for visualizeand manipulatemolecular structures
bull Integrates key SDSCtechnological strengthsbull Biological databasesbull Transparent
supercomputingbull Web-based Virtual Reality
Modeling Language
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Visualization by Donna Cox Bob Patterson NCSAFrom ldquoCosmic Voyagerdquo (Smithsonian IMAX)
bull Virtual Director in CAVEfor Choreography of Data
bull 1000-Hour SDSCSupercomputer Run toGenerate Data
bull Tens of Thousands ofHours of NCSA SGI Timeto Render Data
bull Cross-Country Transfer of65 GB of data to IMAX Film
Supercomputers Networks and Virtual Reality-- Sharing Science with 80 Million People
NATIONAL COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE ALLIANCE
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Brain Mappingbull One brain = a lot of data
bull At full-color micrometerresolution one brain fills45 petabytes
bull Mapping the brain will helpunderstand memoryconsciousness sleep agingbull Insight about brain structure-
function relationshipsin health and disease
bull Federating geographically distributed collections and toolsfor data exploration comparison and simulation
bull Involves all NPACI technology thrusts
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
SDSC Storage Resource Broker amp Meta-data Catalog
SDSC SRB
ADSM HPSS DB2 Oracle Unix
Application
File SID DBLobj SID Obj SID
MCAT
Dublin Core
Resource
User
ApplicationMeta-data
RemoteProxies
DataCutter
Third-partycopy
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
ldquoCollectionrdquo Management Federation of BrainData
CCB Montana SUSurface atlas Van Essen Lab
NCMIR UCSDstereotaxic atlas LONI
MCell CNL Salk
ANATOM
PROTLOC
Result (VML)
MODEL-BASED Mediation
Result (XMLXSLT)
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Protein Data Bankbull Worldrsquos single scientific resource for
depositing and searching proteinstructures
bull Protein structure data growingexponentiallybull 10500 structures in PDB todaybull 20000 by the year 2001
bull Vital to the advancement of biologicalsciences
bull Working towards a digital continuumfrom primary data to final scientificpublication
bull Capture of primary data from high-energy synchrotrons (eg StanfordLinear Accelerator Center) requires50Mbps network bandwidth1CD3 The PDBrsquos 10000th structure
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Telescience for AdvancedTomography Applications
bull Integrates remote instrumentationdistributed computing federateddatabases image archives andvisualization toolsbull Mark Ellisman UCSDbull Fran Berman UCSDbull Carl Kesselman USC
bull 3-D tomographicreconstruction ofbiological specimens
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Digital Skybull Billions of objects can be
detected with optical infraredand radio telescopesbull Tens of terabytes of image and
catalog databull Digital Sky federating four sky
surveys to allow multi-wavelength studies across thedata setsbull DPOSS 2MASS NVSS FIRSTbull Tom Prince Caltech leading
federation effortbull Uses MIX SDSC SRB and NPACI
mass storage systems
A globular cluster from the DPOSSarchive Such clusters provide a minimumage for the universe Image by ThomasHandley Caltech
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
CRA Conference Snowbird 2000Snowbird Utah
July 11 2000
Sid Karin DirectorNPACI and SDSC
The Relationship Between ComputerScience and Computational Science
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Relationship Between ComputerScience and Computational Science
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputer science is the computer
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Relationship Between ComputerScience and Computational Science
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputational biology is living systems
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Relationship Between ComputerScience and Computational Science
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputer science is the computer
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputational biology is living systems
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Theory Theory
The Computational Science Continuum
SimulationSimulation
ExperimentExperiment
Data-intensive computing(mining)
Data-intensive
computing(assimilation)
Numericallyintensivecomputing
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
MICE Transparent Supercomputingbull Molecular Interactive
CollaborativeEnvironment
bull Gallery allowsresearchers studentsto search for visualizeand manipulatemolecular structures
bull Integrates key SDSCtechnological strengthsbull Biological databasesbull Transparent
supercomputingbull Web-based Virtual Reality
Modeling Language
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Visualization by Donna Cox Bob Patterson NCSAFrom ldquoCosmic Voyagerdquo (Smithsonian IMAX)
bull Virtual Director in CAVEfor Choreography of Data
bull 1000-Hour SDSCSupercomputer Run toGenerate Data
bull Tens of Thousands ofHours of NCSA SGI Timeto Render Data
bull Cross-Country Transfer of65 GB of data to IMAX Film
Supercomputers Networks and Virtual Reality-- Sharing Science with 80 Million People
NATIONAL COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE ALLIANCE
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Brain Mappingbull One brain = a lot of data
bull At full-color micrometerresolution one brain fills45 petabytes
bull Mapping the brain will helpunderstand memoryconsciousness sleep agingbull Insight about brain structure-
function relationshipsin health and disease
bull Federating geographically distributed collections and toolsfor data exploration comparison and simulation
bull Involves all NPACI technology thrusts
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
SDSC Storage Resource Broker amp Meta-data Catalog
SDSC SRB
ADSM HPSS DB2 Oracle Unix
Application
File SID DBLobj SID Obj SID
MCAT
Dublin Core
Resource
User
ApplicationMeta-data
RemoteProxies
DataCutter
Third-partycopy
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
ldquoCollectionrdquo Management Federation of BrainData
CCB Montana SUSurface atlas Van Essen Lab
NCMIR UCSDstereotaxic atlas LONI
MCell CNL Salk
ANATOM
PROTLOC
Result (VML)
MODEL-BASED Mediation
Result (XMLXSLT)
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Protein Data Bankbull Worldrsquos single scientific resource for
depositing and searching proteinstructures
bull Protein structure data growingexponentiallybull 10500 structures in PDB todaybull 20000 by the year 2001
bull Vital to the advancement of biologicalsciences
bull Working towards a digital continuumfrom primary data to final scientificpublication
bull Capture of primary data from high-energy synchrotrons (eg StanfordLinear Accelerator Center) requires50Mbps network bandwidth1CD3 The PDBrsquos 10000th structure
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Telescience for AdvancedTomography Applications
bull Integrates remote instrumentationdistributed computing federateddatabases image archives andvisualization toolsbull Mark Ellisman UCSDbull Fran Berman UCSDbull Carl Kesselman USC
bull 3-D tomographicreconstruction ofbiological specimens
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Digital Skybull Billions of objects can be
detected with optical infraredand radio telescopesbull Tens of terabytes of image and
catalog databull Digital Sky federating four sky
surveys to allow multi-wavelength studies across thedata setsbull DPOSS 2MASS NVSS FIRSTbull Tom Prince Caltech leading
federation effortbull Uses MIX SDSC SRB and NPACI
mass storage systems
A globular cluster from the DPOSSarchive Such clusters provide a minimumage for the universe Image by ThomasHandley Caltech
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Relationship Between ComputerScience and Computational Science
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputer science is the computer
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Relationship Between ComputerScience and Computational Science
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputational biology is living systems
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Relationship Between ComputerScience and Computational Science
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputer science is the computer
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputational biology is living systems
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Theory Theory
The Computational Science Continuum
SimulationSimulation
ExperimentExperiment
Data-intensive computing(mining)
Data-intensive
computing(assimilation)
Numericallyintensivecomputing
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
MICE Transparent Supercomputingbull Molecular Interactive
CollaborativeEnvironment
bull Gallery allowsresearchers studentsto search for visualizeand manipulatemolecular structures
bull Integrates key SDSCtechnological strengthsbull Biological databasesbull Transparent
supercomputingbull Web-based Virtual Reality
Modeling Language
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Visualization by Donna Cox Bob Patterson NCSAFrom ldquoCosmic Voyagerdquo (Smithsonian IMAX)
bull Virtual Director in CAVEfor Choreography of Data
bull 1000-Hour SDSCSupercomputer Run toGenerate Data
bull Tens of Thousands ofHours of NCSA SGI Timeto Render Data
bull Cross-Country Transfer of65 GB of data to IMAX Film
Supercomputers Networks and Virtual Reality-- Sharing Science with 80 Million People
NATIONAL COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE ALLIANCE
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Brain Mappingbull One brain = a lot of data
bull At full-color micrometerresolution one brain fills45 petabytes
bull Mapping the brain will helpunderstand memoryconsciousness sleep agingbull Insight about brain structure-
function relationshipsin health and disease
bull Federating geographically distributed collections and toolsfor data exploration comparison and simulation
bull Involves all NPACI technology thrusts
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
SDSC Storage Resource Broker amp Meta-data Catalog
SDSC SRB
ADSM HPSS DB2 Oracle Unix
Application
File SID DBLobj SID Obj SID
MCAT
Dublin Core
Resource
User
ApplicationMeta-data
RemoteProxies
DataCutter
Third-partycopy
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
ldquoCollectionrdquo Management Federation of BrainData
CCB Montana SUSurface atlas Van Essen Lab
NCMIR UCSDstereotaxic atlas LONI
MCell CNL Salk
ANATOM
PROTLOC
Result (VML)
MODEL-BASED Mediation
Result (XMLXSLT)
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Protein Data Bankbull Worldrsquos single scientific resource for
depositing and searching proteinstructures
bull Protein structure data growingexponentiallybull 10500 structures in PDB todaybull 20000 by the year 2001
bull Vital to the advancement of biologicalsciences
bull Working towards a digital continuumfrom primary data to final scientificpublication
bull Capture of primary data from high-energy synchrotrons (eg StanfordLinear Accelerator Center) requires50Mbps network bandwidth1CD3 The PDBrsquos 10000th structure
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Telescience for AdvancedTomography Applications
bull Integrates remote instrumentationdistributed computing federateddatabases image archives andvisualization toolsbull Mark Ellisman UCSDbull Fran Berman UCSDbull Carl Kesselman USC
bull 3-D tomographicreconstruction ofbiological specimens
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Digital Skybull Billions of objects can be
detected with optical infraredand radio telescopesbull Tens of terabytes of image and
catalog databull Digital Sky federating four sky
surveys to allow multi-wavelength studies across thedata setsbull DPOSS 2MASS NVSS FIRSTbull Tom Prince Caltech leading
federation effortbull Uses MIX SDSC SRB and NPACI
mass storage systems
A globular cluster from the DPOSSarchive Such clusters provide a minimumage for the universe Image by ThomasHandley Caltech
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Relationship Between ComputerScience and Computational Science
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputational biology is living systems
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Relationship Between ComputerScience and Computational Science
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputer science is the computer
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputational biology is living systems
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Theory Theory
The Computational Science Continuum
SimulationSimulation
ExperimentExperiment
Data-intensive computing(mining)
Data-intensive
computing(assimilation)
Numericallyintensivecomputing
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
MICE Transparent Supercomputingbull Molecular Interactive
CollaborativeEnvironment
bull Gallery allowsresearchers studentsto search for visualizeand manipulatemolecular structures
bull Integrates key SDSCtechnological strengthsbull Biological databasesbull Transparent
supercomputingbull Web-based Virtual Reality
Modeling Language
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Visualization by Donna Cox Bob Patterson NCSAFrom ldquoCosmic Voyagerdquo (Smithsonian IMAX)
bull Virtual Director in CAVEfor Choreography of Data
bull 1000-Hour SDSCSupercomputer Run toGenerate Data
bull Tens of Thousands ofHours of NCSA SGI Timeto Render Data
bull Cross-Country Transfer of65 GB of data to IMAX Film
Supercomputers Networks and Virtual Reality-- Sharing Science with 80 Million People
NATIONAL COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE ALLIANCE
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Brain Mappingbull One brain = a lot of data
bull At full-color micrometerresolution one brain fills45 petabytes
bull Mapping the brain will helpunderstand memoryconsciousness sleep agingbull Insight about brain structure-
function relationshipsin health and disease
bull Federating geographically distributed collections and toolsfor data exploration comparison and simulation
bull Involves all NPACI technology thrusts
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
SDSC Storage Resource Broker amp Meta-data Catalog
SDSC SRB
ADSM HPSS DB2 Oracle Unix
Application
File SID DBLobj SID Obj SID
MCAT
Dublin Core
Resource
User
ApplicationMeta-data
RemoteProxies
DataCutter
Third-partycopy
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
ldquoCollectionrdquo Management Federation of BrainData
CCB Montana SUSurface atlas Van Essen Lab
NCMIR UCSDstereotaxic atlas LONI
MCell CNL Salk
ANATOM
PROTLOC
Result (VML)
MODEL-BASED Mediation
Result (XMLXSLT)
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Protein Data Bankbull Worldrsquos single scientific resource for
depositing and searching proteinstructures
bull Protein structure data growingexponentiallybull 10500 structures in PDB todaybull 20000 by the year 2001
bull Vital to the advancement of biologicalsciences
bull Working towards a digital continuumfrom primary data to final scientificpublication
bull Capture of primary data from high-energy synchrotrons (eg StanfordLinear Accelerator Center) requires50Mbps network bandwidth1CD3 The PDBrsquos 10000th structure
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Telescience for AdvancedTomography Applications
bull Integrates remote instrumentationdistributed computing federateddatabases image archives andvisualization toolsbull Mark Ellisman UCSDbull Fran Berman UCSDbull Carl Kesselman USC
bull 3-D tomographicreconstruction ofbiological specimens
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Digital Skybull Billions of objects can be
detected with optical infraredand radio telescopesbull Tens of terabytes of image and
catalog databull Digital Sky federating four sky
surveys to allow multi-wavelength studies across thedata setsbull DPOSS 2MASS NVSS FIRSTbull Tom Prince Caltech leading
federation effortbull Uses MIX SDSC SRB and NPACI
mass storage systems
A globular cluster from the DPOSSarchive Such clusters provide a minimumage for the universe Image by ThomasHandley Caltech
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Relationship Between ComputerScience and Computational Science
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputer science is the computer
bull The object of intellectual curiosity incomputational biology is living systems
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Theory Theory
The Computational Science Continuum
SimulationSimulation
ExperimentExperiment
Data-intensive computing(mining)
Data-intensive
computing(assimilation)
Numericallyintensivecomputing
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
MICE Transparent Supercomputingbull Molecular Interactive
CollaborativeEnvironment
bull Gallery allowsresearchers studentsto search for visualizeand manipulatemolecular structures
bull Integrates key SDSCtechnological strengthsbull Biological databasesbull Transparent
supercomputingbull Web-based Virtual Reality
Modeling Language
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Visualization by Donna Cox Bob Patterson NCSAFrom ldquoCosmic Voyagerdquo (Smithsonian IMAX)
bull Virtual Director in CAVEfor Choreography of Data
bull 1000-Hour SDSCSupercomputer Run toGenerate Data
bull Tens of Thousands ofHours of NCSA SGI Timeto Render Data
bull Cross-Country Transfer of65 GB of data to IMAX Film
Supercomputers Networks and Virtual Reality-- Sharing Science with 80 Million People
NATIONAL COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE ALLIANCE
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Brain Mappingbull One brain = a lot of data
bull At full-color micrometerresolution one brain fills45 petabytes
bull Mapping the brain will helpunderstand memoryconsciousness sleep agingbull Insight about brain structure-
function relationshipsin health and disease
bull Federating geographically distributed collections and toolsfor data exploration comparison and simulation
bull Involves all NPACI technology thrusts
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
SDSC Storage Resource Broker amp Meta-data Catalog
SDSC SRB
ADSM HPSS DB2 Oracle Unix
Application
File SID DBLobj SID Obj SID
MCAT
Dublin Core
Resource
User
ApplicationMeta-data
RemoteProxies
DataCutter
Third-partycopy
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
ldquoCollectionrdquo Management Federation of BrainData
CCB Montana SUSurface atlas Van Essen Lab
NCMIR UCSDstereotaxic atlas LONI
MCell CNL Salk
ANATOM
PROTLOC
Result (VML)
MODEL-BASED Mediation
Result (XMLXSLT)
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Protein Data Bankbull Worldrsquos single scientific resource for
depositing and searching proteinstructures
bull Protein structure data growingexponentiallybull 10500 structures in PDB todaybull 20000 by the year 2001
bull Vital to the advancement of biologicalsciences
bull Working towards a digital continuumfrom primary data to final scientificpublication
bull Capture of primary data from high-energy synchrotrons (eg StanfordLinear Accelerator Center) requires50Mbps network bandwidth1CD3 The PDBrsquos 10000th structure
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Telescience for AdvancedTomography Applications
bull Integrates remote instrumentationdistributed computing federateddatabases image archives andvisualization toolsbull Mark Ellisman UCSDbull Fran Berman UCSDbull Carl Kesselman USC
bull 3-D tomographicreconstruction ofbiological specimens
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Digital Skybull Billions of objects can be
detected with optical infraredand radio telescopesbull Tens of terabytes of image and
catalog databull Digital Sky federating four sky
surveys to allow multi-wavelength studies across thedata setsbull DPOSS 2MASS NVSS FIRSTbull Tom Prince Caltech leading
federation effortbull Uses MIX SDSC SRB and NPACI
mass storage systems
A globular cluster from the DPOSSarchive Such clusters provide a minimumage for the universe Image by ThomasHandley Caltech
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Theory Theory
The Computational Science Continuum
SimulationSimulation
ExperimentExperiment
Data-intensive computing(mining)
Data-intensive
computing(assimilation)
Numericallyintensivecomputing
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
MICE Transparent Supercomputingbull Molecular Interactive
CollaborativeEnvironment
bull Gallery allowsresearchers studentsto search for visualizeand manipulatemolecular structures
bull Integrates key SDSCtechnological strengthsbull Biological databasesbull Transparent
supercomputingbull Web-based Virtual Reality
Modeling Language
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Visualization by Donna Cox Bob Patterson NCSAFrom ldquoCosmic Voyagerdquo (Smithsonian IMAX)
bull Virtual Director in CAVEfor Choreography of Data
bull 1000-Hour SDSCSupercomputer Run toGenerate Data
bull Tens of Thousands ofHours of NCSA SGI Timeto Render Data
bull Cross-Country Transfer of65 GB of data to IMAX Film
Supercomputers Networks and Virtual Reality-- Sharing Science with 80 Million People
NATIONAL COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE ALLIANCE
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Brain Mappingbull One brain = a lot of data
bull At full-color micrometerresolution one brain fills45 petabytes
bull Mapping the brain will helpunderstand memoryconsciousness sleep agingbull Insight about brain structure-
function relationshipsin health and disease
bull Federating geographically distributed collections and toolsfor data exploration comparison and simulation
bull Involves all NPACI technology thrusts
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
SDSC Storage Resource Broker amp Meta-data Catalog
SDSC SRB
ADSM HPSS DB2 Oracle Unix
Application
File SID DBLobj SID Obj SID
MCAT
Dublin Core
Resource
User
ApplicationMeta-data
RemoteProxies
DataCutter
Third-partycopy
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
ldquoCollectionrdquo Management Federation of BrainData
CCB Montana SUSurface atlas Van Essen Lab
NCMIR UCSDstereotaxic atlas LONI
MCell CNL Salk
ANATOM
PROTLOC
Result (VML)
MODEL-BASED Mediation
Result (XMLXSLT)
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Protein Data Bankbull Worldrsquos single scientific resource for
depositing and searching proteinstructures
bull Protein structure data growingexponentiallybull 10500 structures in PDB todaybull 20000 by the year 2001
bull Vital to the advancement of biologicalsciences
bull Working towards a digital continuumfrom primary data to final scientificpublication
bull Capture of primary data from high-energy synchrotrons (eg StanfordLinear Accelerator Center) requires50Mbps network bandwidth1CD3 The PDBrsquos 10000th structure
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Telescience for AdvancedTomography Applications
bull Integrates remote instrumentationdistributed computing federateddatabases image archives andvisualization toolsbull Mark Ellisman UCSDbull Fran Berman UCSDbull Carl Kesselman USC
bull 3-D tomographicreconstruction ofbiological specimens
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Digital Skybull Billions of objects can be
detected with optical infraredand radio telescopesbull Tens of terabytes of image and
catalog databull Digital Sky federating four sky
surveys to allow multi-wavelength studies across thedata setsbull DPOSS 2MASS NVSS FIRSTbull Tom Prince Caltech leading
federation effortbull Uses MIX SDSC SRB and NPACI
mass storage systems
A globular cluster from the DPOSSarchive Such clusters provide a minimumage for the universe Image by ThomasHandley Caltech
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
MICE Transparent Supercomputingbull Molecular Interactive
CollaborativeEnvironment
bull Gallery allowsresearchers studentsto search for visualizeand manipulatemolecular structures
bull Integrates key SDSCtechnological strengthsbull Biological databasesbull Transparent
supercomputingbull Web-based Virtual Reality
Modeling Language
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Visualization by Donna Cox Bob Patterson NCSAFrom ldquoCosmic Voyagerdquo (Smithsonian IMAX)
bull Virtual Director in CAVEfor Choreography of Data
bull 1000-Hour SDSCSupercomputer Run toGenerate Data
bull Tens of Thousands ofHours of NCSA SGI Timeto Render Data
bull Cross-Country Transfer of65 GB of data to IMAX Film
Supercomputers Networks and Virtual Reality-- Sharing Science with 80 Million People
NATIONAL COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE ALLIANCE
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Brain Mappingbull One brain = a lot of data
bull At full-color micrometerresolution one brain fills45 petabytes
bull Mapping the brain will helpunderstand memoryconsciousness sleep agingbull Insight about brain structure-
function relationshipsin health and disease
bull Federating geographically distributed collections and toolsfor data exploration comparison and simulation
bull Involves all NPACI technology thrusts
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
SDSC Storage Resource Broker amp Meta-data Catalog
SDSC SRB
ADSM HPSS DB2 Oracle Unix
Application
File SID DBLobj SID Obj SID
MCAT
Dublin Core
Resource
User
ApplicationMeta-data
RemoteProxies
DataCutter
Third-partycopy
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
ldquoCollectionrdquo Management Federation of BrainData
CCB Montana SUSurface atlas Van Essen Lab
NCMIR UCSDstereotaxic atlas LONI
MCell CNL Salk
ANATOM
PROTLOC
Result (VML)
MODEL-BASED Mediation
Result (XMLXSLT)
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Protein Data Bankbull Worldrsquos single scientific resource for
depositing and searching proteinstructures
bull Protein structure data growingexponentiallybull 10500 structures in PDB todaybull 20000 by the year 2001
bull Vital to the advancement of biologicalsciences
bull Working towards a digital continuumfrom primary data to final scientificpublication
bull Capture of primary data from high-energy synchrotrons (eg StanfordLinear Accelerator Center) requires50Mbps network bandwidth1CD3 The PDBrsquos 10000th structure
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Telescience for AdvancedTomography Applications
bull Integrates remote instrumentationdistributed computing federateddatabases image archives andvisualization toolsbull Mark Ellisman UCSDbull Fran Berman UCSDbull Carl Kesselman USC
bull 3-D tomographicreconstruction ofbiological specimens
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Digital Skybull Billions of objects can be
detected with optical infraredand radio telescopesbull Tens of terabytes of image and
catalog databull Digital Sky federating four sky
surveys to allow multi-wavelength studies across thedata setsbull DPOSS 2MASS NVSS FIRSTbull Tom Prince Caltech leading
federation effortbull Uses MIX SDSC SRB and NPACI
mass storage systems
A globular cluster from the DPOSSarchive Such clusters provide a minimumage for the universe Image by ThomasHandley Caltech
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Visualization by Donna Cox Bob Patterson NCSAFrom ldquoCosmic Voyagerdquo (Smithsonian IMAX)
bull Virtual Director in CAVEfor Choreography of Data
bull 1000-Hour SDSCSupercomputer Run toGenerate Data
bull Tens of Thousands ofHours of NCSA SGI Timeto Render Data
bull Cross-Country Transfer of65 GB of data to IMAX Film
Supercomputers Networks and Virtual Reality-- Sharing Science with 80 Million People
NATIONAL COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE ALLIANCE
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Brain Mappingbull One brain = a lot of data
bull At full-color micrometerresolution one brain fills45 petabytes
bull Mapping the brain will helpunderstand memoryconsciousness sleep agingbull Insight about brain structure-
function relationshipsin health and disease
bull Federating geographically distributed collections and toolsfor data exploration comparison and simulation
bull Involves all NPACI technology thrusts
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
SDSC Storage Resource Broker amp Meta-data Catalog
SDSC SRB
ADSM HPSS DB2 Oracle Unix
Application
File SID DBLobj SID Obj SID
MCAT
Dublin Core
Resource
User
ApplicationMeta-data
RemoteProxies
DataCutter
Third-partycopy
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
ldquoCollectionrdquo Management Federation of BrainData
CCB Montana SUSurface atlas Van Essen Lab
NCMIR UCSDstereotaxic atlas LONI
MCell CNL Salk
ANATOM
PROTLOC
Result (VML)
MODEL-BASED Mediation
Result (XMLXSLT)
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Protein Data Bankbull Worldrsquos single scientific resource for
depositing and searching proteinstructures
bull Protein structure data growingexponentiallybull 10500 structures in PDB todaybull 20000 by the year 2001
bull Vital to the advancement of biologicalsciences
bull Working towards a digital continuumfrom primary data to final scientificpublication
bull Capture of primary data from high-energy synchrotrons (eg StanfordLinear Accelerator Center) requires50Mbps network bandwidth1CD3 The PDBrsquos 10000th structure
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Telescience for AdvancedTomography Applications
bull Integrates remote instrumentationdistributed computing federateddatabases image archives andvisualization toolsbull Mark Ellisman UCSDbull Fran Berman UCSDbull Carl Kesselman USC
bull 3-D tomographicreconstruction ofbiological specimens
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Digital Skybull Billions of objects can be
detected with optical infraredand radio telescopesbull Tens of terabytes of image and
catalog databull Digital Sky federating four sky
surveys to allow multi-wavelength studies across thedata setsbull DPOSS 2MASS NVSS FIRSTbull Tom Prince Caltech leading
federation effortbull Uses MIX SDSC SRB and NPACI
mass storage systems
A globular cluster from the DPOSSarchive Such clusters provide a minimumage for the universe Image by ThomasHandley Caltech
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Brain Mappingbull One brain = a lot of data
bull At full-color micrometerresolution one brain fills45 petabytes
bull Mapping the brain will helpunderstand memoryconsciousness sleep agingbull Insight about brain structure-
function relationshipsin health and disease
bull Federating geographically distributed collections and toolsfor data exploration comparison and simulation
bull Involves all NPACI technology thrusts
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
SDSC Storage Resource Broker amp Meta-data Catalog
SDSC SRB
ADSM HPSS DB2 Oracle Unix
Application
File SID DBLobj SID Obj SID
MCAT
Dublin Core
Resource
User
ApplicationMeta-data
RemoteProxies
DataCutter
Third-partycopy
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
ldquoCollectionrdquo Management Federation of BrainData
CCB Montana SUSurface atlas Van Essen Lab
NCMIR UCSDstereotaxic atlas LONI
MCell CNL Salk
ANATOM
PROTLOC
Result (VML)
MODEL-BASED Mediation
Result (XMLXSLT)
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Protein Data Bankbull Worldrsquos single scientific resource for
depositing and searching proteinstructures
bull Protein structure data growingexponentiallybull 10500 structures in PDB todaybull 20000 by the year 2001
bull Vital to the advancement of biologicalsciences
bull Working towards a digital continuumfrom primary data to final scientificpublication
bull Capture of primary data from high-energy synchrotrons (eg StanfordLinear Accelerator Center) requires50Mbps network bandwidth1CD3 The PDBrsquos 10000th structure
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Telescience for AdvancedTomography Applications
bull Integrates remote instrumentationdistributed computing federateddatabases image archives andvisualization toolsbull Mark Ellisman UCSDbull Fran Berman UCSDbull Carl Kesselman USC
bull 3-D tomographicreconstruction ofbiological specimens
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Digital Skybull Billions of objects can be
detected with optical infraredand radio telescopesbull Tens of terabytes of image and
catalog databull Digital Sky federating four sky
surveys to allow multi-wavelength studies across thedata setsbull DPOSS 2MASS NVSS FIRSTbull Tom Prince Caltech leading
federation effortbull Uses MIX SDSC SRB and NPACI
mass storage systems
A globular cluster from the DPOSSarchive Such clusters provide a minimumage for the universe Image by ThomasHandley Caltech
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
SDSC Storage Resource Broker amp Meta-data Catalog
SDSC SRB
ADSM HPSS DB2 Oracle Unix
Application
File SID DBLobj SID Obj SID
MCAT
Dublin Core
Resource
User
ApplicationMeta-data
RemoteProxies
DataCutter
Third-partycopy
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
ldquoCollectionrdquo Management Federation of BrainData
CCB Montana SUSurface atlas Van Essen Lab
NCMIR UCSDstereotaxic atlas LONI
MCell CNL Salk
ANATOM
PROTLOC
Result (VML)
MODEL-BASED Mediation
Result (XMLXSLT)
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Protein Data Bankbull Worldrsquos single scientific resource for
depositing and searching proteinstructures
bull Protein structure data growingexponentiallybull 10500 structures in PDB todaybull 20000 by the year 2001
bull Vital to the advancement of biologicalsciences
bull Working towards a digital continuumfrom primary data to final scientificpublication
bull Capture of primary data from high-energy synchrotrons (eg StanfordLinear Accelerator Center) requires50Mbps network bandwidth1CD3 The PDBrsquos 10000th structure
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Telescience for AdvancedTomography Applications
bull Integrates remote instrumentationdistributed computing federateddatabases image archives andvisualization toolsbull Mark Ellisman UCSDbull Fran Berman UCSDbull Carl Kesselman USC
bull 3-D tomographicreconstruction ofbiological specimens
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Digital Skybull Billions of objects can be
detected with optical infraredand radio telescopesbull Tens of terabytes of image and
catalog databull Digital Sky federating four sky
surveys to allow multi-wavelength studies across thedata setsbull DPOSS 2MASS NVSS FIRSTbull Tom Prince Caltech leading
federation effortbull Uses MIX SDSC SRB and NPACI
mass storage systems
A globular cluster from the DPOSSarchive Such clusters provide a minimumage for the universe Image by ThomasHandley Caltech
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
ldquoCollectionrdquo Management Federation of BrainData
CCB Montana SUSurface atlas Van Essen Lab
NCMIR UCSDstereotaxic atlas LONI
MCell CNL Salk
ANATOM
PROTLOC
Result (VML)
MODEL-BASED Mediation
Result (XMLXSLT)
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Protein Data Bankbull Worldrsquos single scientific resource for
depositing and searching proteinstructures
bull Protein structure data growingexponentiallybull 10500 structures in PDB todaybull 20000 by the year 2001
bull Vital to the advancement of biologicalsciences
bull Working towards a digital continuumfrom primary data to final scientificpublication
bull Capture of primary data from high-energy synchrotrons (eg StanfordLinear Accelerator Center) requires50Mbps network bandwidth1CD3 The PDBrsquos 10000th structure
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Telescience for AdvancedTomography Applications
bull Integrates remote instrumentationdistributed computing federateddatabases image archives andvisualization toolsbull Mark Ellisman UCSDbull Fran Berman UCSDbull Carl Kesselman USC
bull 3-D tomographicreconstruction ofbiological specimens
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Digital Skybull Billions of objects can be
detected with optical infraredand radio telescopesbull Tens of terabytes of image and
catalog databull Digital Sky federating four sky
surveys to allow multi-wavelength studies across thedata setsbull DPOSS 2MASS NVSS FIRSTbull Tom Prince Caltech leading
federation effortbull Uses MIX SDSC SRB and NPACI
mass storage systems
A globular cluster from the DPOSSarchive Such clusters provide a minimumage for the universe Image by ThomasHandley Caltech
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Protein Data Bankbull Worldrsquos single scientific resource for
depositing and searching proteinstructures
bull Protein structure data growingexponentiallybull 10500 structures in PDB todaybull 20000 by the year 2001
bull Vital to the advancement of biologicalsciences
bull Working towards a digital continuumfrom primary data to final scientificpublication
bull Capture of primary data from high-energy synchrotrons (eg StanfordLinear Accelerator Center) requires50Mbps network bandwidth1CD3 The PDBrsquos 10000th structure
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Telescience for AdvancedTomography Applications
bull Integrates remote instrumentationdistributed computing federateddatabases image archives andvisualization toolsbull Mark Ellisman UCSDbull Fran Berman UCSDbull Carl Kesselman USC
bull 3-D tomographicreconstruction ofbiological specimens
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Digital Skybull Billions of objects can be
detected with optical infraredand radio telescopesbull Tens of terabytes of image and
catalog databull Digital Sky federating four sky
surveys to allow multi-wavelength studies across thedata setsbull DPOSS 2MASS NVSS FIRSTbull Tom Prince Caltech leading
federation effortbull Uses MIX SDSC SRB and NPACI
mass storage systems
A globular cluster from the DPOSSarchive Such clusters provide a minimumage for the universe Image by ThomasHandley Caltech
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Telescience for AdvancedTomography Applications
bull Integrates remote instrumentationdistributed computing federateddatabases image archives andvisualization toolsbull Mark Ellisman UCSDbull Fran Berman UCSDbull Carl Kesselman USC
bull 3-D tomographicreconstruction ofbiological specimens
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Digital Skybull Billions of objects can be
detected with optical infraredand radio telescopesbull Tens of terabytes of image and
catalog databull Digital Sky federating four sky
surveys to allow multi-wavelength studies across thedata setsbull DPOSS 2MASS NVSS FIRSTbull Tom Prince Caltech leading
federation effortbull Uses MIX SDSC SRB and NPACI
mass storage systems
A globular cluster from the DPOSSarchive Such clusters provide a minimumage for the universe Image by ThomasHandley Caltech
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
The Digital Skybull Billions of objects can be
detected with optical infraredand radio telescopesbull Tens of terabytes of image and
catalog databull Digital Sky federating four sky
surveys to allow multi-wavelength studies across thedata setsbull DPOSS 2MASS NVSS FIRSTbull Tom Prince Caltech leading
federation effortbull Uses MIX SDSC SRB and NPACI
mass storage systems
A globular cluster from the DPOSSarchive Such clusters provide a minimumage for the universe Image by ThomasHandley Caltech
