HR: 08:40h
AN: IN21C-03    [Abstracts]
TI: iGEON-India: International GEON Activities in India
AU: Subbarao, K
EM: subbu@uohyd.ernet.in
AF: University Center for Earth and Space Sciences University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, AP 500046, India
AU: * Baru, C
EM: baru@sdsc.edu
AF: San Diego Supercomputer Center University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505, United States
AU: Agarwal, A
EM: aruncs@uohyd.ernet.in
AF: Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Design University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Hyderabd, AP 500046,
AU: Chandra, S
EM: chandras@sdsc.edu
AF: San Diego Supercomputer Center University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505, United States
AB: As part of its international activities, the Geosciences Network project (GEON, http://www.geongrid.org) has initiated collaborations with the University of Hyderabad, India. This effort called, iGEON-India, is funded by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum. The goal of the project is to promote the use of cyberinfrastructure at participating institutions in India to facilitate the sharing of geosciences data via GEON. The lead institution in India, which is the University of Hyderabad, has deployed a GEON portal at their site in Hyderabad to enable local scientists to register their data sets. The iGEON-India grid is a distributed grid composed of dedicated hardware resources physically located at partner sites spread across India. Currently, this includes the University of Hyderabad, University of Pune, and a newly established university in a rural area in southern India, in Rajamundry. Each partner site hosts a minimum of one PoP (Point of Presence) node, which is a server-class machine: a dual-processor Linux-based server that runs the standard GEON Software Stack. Some sites may have additional hardware resources while other sites have additional resources that are accessible to GEON users, but not dedicated to GEON. The iGEON PoP node provides capabilities to (i) develop and deploy services and serve datasets for the users at their site and for the broader iGEON community, (ii) help the partner site integrate local department or campus resources, and (iii) provide resources for system-level components, e.g. for data caching, monitoring, etc. Users at the University of Hyderabad have already started registering some data sets, including GIS data and geochemistry data. In addition, some GIS services have been registered, and other services related to image processing are in the process of being developed. As part of the collaboration, the GEON project has already conducted two cyberinfrastructure workshops at the University of Hyderabad in October 2005 and August 2007. iGEON-India is a collaboration between GEON in the US (represented by the San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of Oklahoma, and Penn State University) and the University of Hyderabad, University of Pune, and the University of Jammu in India.
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting