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Service Oriented Grid Architecture for Geosciences Community
Fraser, R., Rankine, T. and Woodcock, R.
Grid computing has many attributes that provide benefits
to research communities. These include the ability to do
existing research faster; enable collaborative
environments; reduce costs and provide a pool of
resources that creates an ability to conduct greater
research. These have been identified by the Geosciences
community as of significant interest and a plausible
solution to some of the community's current linkage and
development problems.
The Geosciences community for sometime now have
often been restricted to 'small' science, easy access to
greater computational and data resources that would
allow larger experiments to be conducted. The Grid
poses a solution to this problem by providing researchers
simple uniform access to a myriad of resources via a
single-sign-on policy.
The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing
(APAC) Geosciences Grid project together with Solid
Earth & Environment Grid (SEE Grid), aims at providing
Computational Geoscientists with uniform access to
some of the more common Geosciences-based
computational codes on large computational and data
resources available via the grid. To achieve this goal, an
interoperable approach has been taken and web/grid
services where used to establish the links to such
resources.
The Grid's service oriented architecture enables the
programming of specific self-contained services that
simplified the access to computational and data resources
for the user. Through the use of the Globus Toolkit 4, we
have developed grid services that assist the common
Geoscientist user to collaborate and conduct large-scale
experiments including parameter sweeps. |
Cite as: Fraser, R., Rankine, T. and Woodcock, R. (2007). Service Oriented Grid Architecture for Geosciences Community. In Proc. Fifth Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid 2007), Ballarat, Australia. CRPIT, 68. Coddington, P. and Wendelborn, A., Eds. ACS. 19-23. |
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