Towards Deployment of the Remote Instrumentation e-Infrastructure (in the Frame of the DORII Project)
Cheptsov Alexey 1, Keller Rainer 1, Pugliese Roberto 2, Prica Milan 2, Del Linz Andrea 2, Płóciennik Marcin 3, Lawenda Marcin 3, Meyer Norbert 3
1 High-Performance Computing Center, University of Stuttgart, Germany
2 ELETTRA, Sincrotrone Trieste SCpA, Italy
3 Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
Received:
Received: 18 December 2008; published online: 25 March 2009
DOI: 10.12921/cmst.2009.15.01.65-74
OAI: oai:lib.psnc.pl:665
Abstract:
While the majority of e-Infrastructures that are set up within the European Research Area by such projects as EGEE, DEISA etc. are basically focused on providing the high-performance computing support for scientific applications, a diverse set of the scientific communities coming from various fields (e.g. earthquake, environmental science, experimental science communities) develop and operate experimental equipment and remote instrumentation that have not been integrated yet or only partially integrated within the European Grid e-Infrastructure. The Deployment of Remote Instrumentation Infrastructure (DORII) project aims at setting up an advanced Grid-based e-Infrastructure specifically oriented to the support of remote instrumentation devices on Grid extending the level of scientific instruments’ exploitation. The paper highlights the main application areas and usage scenarios, key tasks of the Remote Instrumentation Infrastructure’s deployment and presents the joint research architecture for DORII in terms of advanced middleware solutions addressing the main tasks of identified applications.
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References:
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Instruments in Cyberinfrastructures. In: F. Davoli, N. Meyer, R. Pugliese and S. Zappatore, Eds., Grid Enabled Remote Instrumentation, Springer, New York, NY, 237- 251 (2008).
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Debugging MPI Programs on the Grid using gEclipse. 2nd Parallel Tools Workshop, Stuttgart, Germany, July 7-8, 2008.
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While the majority of e-Infrastructures that are set up within the European Research Area by such projects as EGEE, DEISA etc. are basically focused on providing the high-performance computing support for scientific applications, a diverse set of the scientific communities coming from various fields (e.g. earthquake, environmental science, experimental science communities) develop and operate experimental equipment and remote instrumentation that have not been integrated yet or only partially integrated within the European Grid e-Infrastructure. The Deployment of Remote Instrumentation Infrastructure (DORII) project aims at setting up an advanced Grid-based e-Infrastructure specifically oriented to the support of remote instrumentation devices on Grid extending the level of scientific instruments’ exploitation. The paper highlights the main application areas and usage scenarios, key tasks of the Remote Instrumentation Infrastructure’s deployment and presents the joint research architecture for DORII in terms of advanced middleware solutions addressing the main tasks of identified applications.
Key words:
References:
[1] Enabling Grids for E-Science (EGEE) project website, http://www.eu-egee.org/
[2] Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA) project website, http://www.deisa.eu/
[3] Open Science Grid (OSG) project website, http://opensciencegrid.org/
[4] National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI) project website, http://www.naregi.org/index_e.html
[5] D. Roure, N. Jennings and Shadbolt, Research Agenda for the Semantic Grid: A Future e-Science Infrastructure. 2001, http://www.semanticgrid.org/v1.9/semgrid.pdf
[6] V. J. Harward et al., The iLab shared architecture: A Web Services infrastructure to build communities of Internet accessible laboratories. Proc. IEEE 96 (6), 931-950 (2008).
[7] D. F. McMullen, R. Bramley, K. Chiu, H. Davis, T. Devadithya, J. C. Huffman, K. Huffman and T. Reichherzer, The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture. In: F. Davoli,
N. Meyer, R. Pugliese and S. Zappatore, Eds., Grid Enabled Remote Instrumentation. Springer, New York, NY, 2008, pp. 393-407.
[8] F. Lelli, E. Frizziero, M. Gulmini, G. Maron, S. Orlando, A. Petrucci and S. Squizzato, The many faces of the integration of instruments and the grid. International Journal of Web and Grid Services 3 (3), 239-266 (2007).
[9] F. Davoli, S. Palazzo and S. Zappatore, Distribute Cooperative Laboratories: Networking, Instrumentation, and Measurements. Springer, New York, 2006.
[10] RINGrid project website, http://www.ringrid.eu/
[11] GRIDCC project website, http://www.gridcc.org/
[12] The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) project website, http://www.instrumentmiddleware.org/
[13] Deployment of Remote Instrumentation Infrastructure (DORII) project website, http://www.dorii.eu/
[14] I. Foster, C. Kesselman, J. M. Nick and S. Tuecke, The Physiology of the Grid – An Open Grid Services Architecture for Distributed Systems Integration. http://www.globus.org/alliance/publications/papers/ogsa.pdf
[15] Interactive European Grid (Int.EU.Grid) project website, http://www.i2g.eu/
16] H. Kornmayer, M. Stümpert, M. Knauer and P. Wolniewicz, g-Eclipse – an Integrated Workbench Tool for Grid application users, Grid operators and Grid application developers.
Cracow Grid Workshop ‘06, Cracow, Poland, October 15-18, 2006.
[17] M. Okon, D. Kaliszan, M. Lawenda, D. Stokłosa, T. Rajtar, N. Meyer and M. Stroinski, Virtual Laboratory as a Remote and Interactive Access to the Scientific Instrumentation Embedded in Grid Environment. Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and
Grid Computing (e-Science’06) http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stam/stamp.jsp?arnumber=04031097
[18] GÉANT2 project website, http://www.geant2.net/
[19] Open Grid Forum (OGF) website, http://www.ogf.org/
[20] K. Keahey, M. E. Papka, Q. Peng, D. Schissel, G. Abla, T. Araki, J. Burruss, Feibush, P. Lane, S. Klasky, T. Leggett, D. McCune and L. Randerson, Grids for Experimental Science: The Virtual Control Room. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE’04), http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/9148/29051/01309087.pdf
[21] I. Foster, C. Kesselman and S. Tuecke, The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations. Intl. J. Supercomputer Applications, 2001. www.globus.org/research/papers/anatomy.pdf
[22] R. H. Menk, L. Rigon and F. Arfelli, Diffraction-enhanced X-ray medical imaging at the ELETTRA synchrotron light source. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research
A548, 213-220 (2005).
[23] European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE) website, http://www.eucentre.it/
[24] A. Crise, P. Lazzari, S. Salon and A. Teruzzi, MERSEA deliverable D11.2.1.3 – Final report on the BFM OGSOPA Transport module. 21 pp., 2008.
[25] E. Laure, S. M. Fisher, A. Frohner, C. Grandi, P. Kunszt, A. Krenek, O. Mulmo, F. Pacini, F. Prelz, J. White, M. Barroso, P. Buncic, F. Hemmer, A. Di Meglio and A. Edlund, Programming the Grid with gLite. Computational Methods In Science And Technology 12 (1), 33-45 (2006).
[26] E. Frizziero, M. Gulmini, F. Lelli, G. Maron, A. Oh, S. Orlando, A. Petrucci, S. Squizzato and S. Traldi, Instrument Element: a new Grid component that enables the control of remote instrumentation. Proc. 6th IEEE Internat. Symp. on Cluster Computing and the Grid Workshops (CCGRIDW’06), http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/10857/34198/01630943.pdf.
[27] H. Rosmanith and D. Kranzlmueller, Glogin – A Multifunctional, Interactive Tunnel into the Grid. In: Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, November 2004.
[28] R. Ranon, L. De Marco, A. Senerchia, S. Gabrielli, L. Chittaro, R. Pugliese , L. Del Cano, F. Asnicar and M. Prica, A Web-based Tool for Collaborative Access to Scientific
Instruments in Cyberinfrastructures. In: F. Davoli, N. Meyer, R. Pugliese and S. Zappatore, Eds., Grid Enabled Remote Instrumentation, Springer, New York, NY, 237- 251 (2008).
[29] H. Kornmayer, M. Stümpert, M. Knauer and P. Wolniewicz, g-Eclipse – an Integrated Workbench Tool for Grid application users, Grid operators and Grid application developers. Cracow Grid Workshop ’06, Cracow, Poland, October 15-18, 2006.
[30] C. Klausecker, T. Köckerbauer, R. Preissl and D. Kranzlmüller,
Debugging MPI Programs on the Grid using gEclipse. 2nd Parallel Tools Workshop, Stuttgart, Germany, July 7-8, 2008.
[31] J. J. Dongarra, S. W. Otto, M. Snir and D. Walker, A message passing standard for MPP and workstations. Communications of the ACM, 39 (7), 84-90 (1996).
[32] Open MPI website, http://www.open-mpi.org/
[33] R. Keller and M. Liebing, Using PACX-MPI in MetaComputing applications. 18-th Symposium Simulationstechnique, Erlangen, Sept. 12-15, 2005.
[34] MPI-Start website, http://www.hlrs.de/organization/amt/projects/mpistart/
[35] Virtual Laboratory (VLAB) project website, http://vlab.psnc.pl/
[36] EXPReS project website, http://www.expres-eu.org/
