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Cyberinfrastructure: Coming to a Neighbourhood Near You
NETWORK-ENABLED PLATFORMS: CHANGING THE FACE OF CANADIAN RESEARCH
Tuesday, November 4
10:45 am - 12 pm
More and more, research activities are relying on advanced networks and resources to collect, process, share and analyze large amounts of data and groundbreaking discoveries. Responding to this movement, CANARIE announced earlier this year nine projects across Canada which will receive funding under its new Network-Enabled Platforms (NEP) program. This session will showcase some of the innovative grid tools, web portals and cyberinfrastructure solutions that are being created to support and advance Canadian research.
Session Chair: Lynn Sutherland, President and CEO, Cybera Inc.
Lynn Sutherland works in policy, strategy and research management in information and communications technology. She joined Cybera as President and CEO in 2007. Previously, she was the founding Vice President for iCORE - Alberta Informatics Circle of Research Excellence - where she designed and implemented programs to attract world-class ICT researchers and graduate students to Alberta. Before iCORE, Lynn was the Advanced Computing and Engineering Department Head at the Alberta Research Council where she managed a group of more than 40 applied researchers in artificial intelligence, robotics, visualization, collaborative technologies and massive database systems. In 1998, Sutherland was a key member of the task force who prepared the report, Information and Communications Technology: A Strategy for Alberta. This strategy led to the Alberta government's significant investment in ICT education, research, infrastructure, and business development, which continues today. Sutherland was also involved in a parallel programming language spin-out company from Queen's University in the 1980s.
Presenters:
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Benoît Pirenne, NEPTUNE Canada Associate Director, Information Technology, University of Victoria
Benoît Pirenne is NEPTUNE Canada Associate Director, Information Technology at the University of Victoria since October 2004. He is in charge of all Data Management and Archiving aspects (from system development to operations) of both the VENUS and NEPTUNE Canada observatories. He directs a group of 15 computer professionals organized in three teams. Previously, Pirenne spent 18 years at the European Southern Observatory (ESO, Munich, Germany), a leading Organization for astronomical research. At ESO Pirenne assumed a number of scientific and technical positions. As Head of the Operations Technical Support Department in this Organization, he was responsible for running the Data Management and Archiving system supporting both ESO's telescopes and NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope. Pirenne has a BA in computer science from Liège, Belgium, and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Namur, Belgium.
NEP PROJECT:
A Platform to Create and Support Ocean Science Virtual Organizations
The goal of this project is to allow the diverse and distributed community of ocean scientists to work together on research projects aided by a dynamic and modern, web-based software system providing transparent access to distributed data sources and remote underwater assets.
- Robert Rankin, Space Scientist, University of Alberta
Robert Rankin is a space scientist in the Department of Physics at the University of Alberta. Rankin serves as the Chair of the Canadian Space Science Data Portal (CSSDP) virtual organization and is the current principal investigator for the CSSDP project. Rankin and his group will support the requirements of the CSSDP by ensuring that data can be effectively used for the development of analytical tools, visualizations and scientific workflows. Rankin’s group is currently mandated by the Canadian Space Agency to provide data and data products to the national and international space community via CSSDP.
NEP PROJECT:
Canadian Space Science Data Portal
The goal of this project is to enable and simplify researcher access to space science analytic tools and data. It is expected to shape the development of the space science community as well as help refine productivity safeguards for Canadian industries impacted by space weather phenomena.
- Randall Sobie, Institute for Particle Physics Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria
Randall Sobie is an Institute for Particle Physics Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria. He is currently working on the BaBar Experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre and the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Besides his interest in particle physics he is actively investigating how Canadian researchers will use the Grid to store and analyze the vast data sets from the current and future experiments. He is Director of HEPNET/Canada which is responsible for national and international network issues for the Canadian particle physics community. He is the Principal Investigator of a CANARIE NEP project in collaboration with researchers at the Pacific Forestry Centre. In addition, Dr. Sobie is a Principal Investigator for the Research Computing Facility at the University of Victoria and was the Chair of the 2007 Computing in High Energy Physics Conference held in Victoria.
NEP PROJECT:
Service Oriented Scientific Grid Computing for SAFORAH
The goal of this project is to integrate the computational grid services provided by the Globus Toolkit and Canadian Gavia Project into the Canadian Forest Service's SAFORAH data grid project. The SAFORAH project was created to coordinate and streamline the archiving and sharing of large geospatial data sets between various research groups within the Canadian Forest Service, UVic and various other academic and government partners.
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