Edinburgh Data-Intensive Research - RapidGeo

Screencast: Rapid Portal for real time geophysical experiments

Jano.van.Hemert — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:38:28 +0000

Below a screencast of the first prototype of the scientific gateway for real time geophysical experiments. This portal was created using Rapid.

Topic of this submission:

Screen capture

Research topics:

Data-intensive computing

Collaborative environments

Intuitive interfaces

Projects:

RapidGeo

GeoScience meets Informatics

Jano.van.Hemert — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:06:14 +0000

NeSC Research Seminar Series

Speaker:

Ian Main, Mark Naylor and Andrew Bell

The agenda of this meeting will be flexible, the aim is to provide the informaticians with an understanding of the specific challenges in monitoring, analysis and modelling of experimental and seismological data.

We will aim to give the geoscientists an idea of what expertise and services we have on offer in the areas of mapping formulations of problems to executable tasks, providing steering of these tasks through intuitive interfaces and facilitating systems for the creation of new challenges and knowledge.

This is also the kick-off meeting for the IDEA Lab project entitled "A scientific gateway for real time geophysical experiments", and we will plan the work for the next month.

Date and time:

Thursday, 1 April, 2010 - 11:00

Length:

120 minutes

Location:

IF116

Projects:

RapidGeo

Research topics:

Efficient distributed systems

Effective algorithms

Data-intensive computing

Collaborative environments

Intuitive interfaces

New conceptual models for systems

Reusable computational models

A scientific gateway for real time geophysical experiments

Jano.van.Hemert — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:22:50 +0000

The aim is to develop an open-access, automated, web-based platform for real-time data collation, analysis and information exchange for geophysical experiments. This scientific gateway should enable competing physical hypotheses and statistical methods for forecasting rock failure to be tested and developed in fully prospective mode in an open, testable environment comparable to say daily weather forecasts. To do this will require applying state-of-the art statistical methods to the data in a high-performance computing environment, including formal quantification of model uncertainties and their effect on forecast consistency and quality.

The scientific gateway should cover a broad set of experiments. In this project we will start with one specific experiment as a pilot to show real time analysis in this area is possible. In this pilot will test predictive power of geophysical measurements in forecasting brittle failure events in real time. Current data from a NERC PhD studentship is available to use in the pilot to simulate input from planned future lab experiments, for example to test protocols that involve changing rates of data acquisition and analysis, and to test the limits of the system prior to application in a live test.

Acronym:

IDEA29

Web site:

http://forum.idea.ed.ac.uk/idea/scientific-gateway-real-time-geophysical-experim…

Funding body:

College of Science and Engineering, University of Edinburgh

Value:

£24k

Dates:

1 March 2010 to 31 August 2010

Project members:

Jano.van.Hemert