[CAnet - news] Cyber-infrastructure for Big Science in Canada

[Recently the Canadian Light Source held an eScience workshop
http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2005/ which brought together
researchers and engineers from of a number of Canadian and international big
science projects. There is growing recognition that networking, data
acquisition, analysis, processing, remote access-control and distribution,
collectively known as cyber-infrastructure, is an essential part of big
science and is also becoming a significant portion of the overall cost of
these projects.  CANARIE has funded a number of cyber-infrastructure
projects under its intelligent infrastructure program to enable researchers
to remotely access and control big science instruments and to allow for
remote acquisition and processing and data from these facilities. SOA -
Service oriented architecture, web services, lightpaths and workflow tools
were the featured technology in these projects. CANARIE in partnership with
NRC also funds and operates common services such as Grid Canada
www.gridcanada.ca which provides scientists with "electronic passport" to
authenticate themselves for access to remote instruments and databases
within Canada and elsewhere in the world. CANARIE is also in discussion with
several other big science groups such as the astronomy community, global
visualization, digital libraries and others to see how common reusable SOA
service may be used in these scientific fields.  Some recommended
presentation are as follows:

Ralph Deters of the University of Saskatchewan gave an excellent overview of
SOA and web services and their application to eLearning

Rick McMullen of the University of Indiana gave a presentation of using web
services for Network Attached Instruments	for synchrotrons, telescopes
and fresh water sensors

Robert Heuchert of IBM gave a presentation on the CANARIE funded data
acquisition network for the Neptune/Venus project which also uses web
services to interface instruments and sensors on the ocean floor

Ernst Bergman of the Alberta Synchrotron and Stuart Lomas, BigBangwidth gave
a presentation on the CANARIE funded project to provide a "Beamline on your
desktop" which uses CA*net 4 lightpaths to directly connect the Synchrotron
CCD detectors to remote data acquisition facilities at the Alberta
Synchrotron facility

The VESPERS-CANARIE Project: Remote Operation Of A Microprobe Beamline-
Stuart McIntyre, University of Western Ontario
--BSA]

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