This demonstration of upper middleware complements
Grid services, enabling scientists to easily extract
information from raw datasets utilizing multiple
computing resources. The Virtual Laboratory develops
a formal series of steps, or process flow, to solve
a particular problem in a particular application domain.
The process steps may generate raw data from instruments,
may contain data processing, may retrieve and store
either raw or processed data and may contain
visualization steps. A Process Flow Template (PFT)
represents a typical analysis and visualization cycle
of some raw experiment data.
iGrid demonstrations include data cubes from the
UvA Material Analysis of Complex Surfaces Lab and
data cubes from an MRI brain scan. The Virtual Lab
software assigns various clusters (using DAS-2, a
wide-area distributed computer of 200 Dual Pentium-III
nodes in The Netherlands) parts of a problem
(retrieval, analysis, visualization, and so on).
High bandwidth is a necessary prerequisite in order
to do data analysis and visualization on a distributed system.
Acknowledgment:
Globus Project.
Contact
Zeger Hendrikse
Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands
zegerh@science.uva.nl
Collaborators
Zeger Hendrikse, Cees de Laat, Adam Belloum, Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Bob Hertzberger, UvA, The Netherlands
David Group, NIKHEF, The Netherlands
http://www.vl-e.nl/VLAM-G/