ESC 2013 03 28

Agenda (1) Status of ECS Reference Architecture (2) Petr Votava will talk about the NASA Earth Exchange (3) Suggestions for Summer meeting sessions?

Participants: Chris Lynnes, Brian Wee, Emily Law, Erin Robinson, Mee Mong, Petr Votava

1. Status of ECS Reference Architecture

• Killer Apps
  • ESC tagger example
  • We need to put in Users and Scenarios
• User Stories
  • We need put a few more user stories
• Key Features
• ESC Ref Arch Roser
• Next Step:
  • send a message to people who signed up to be an author but haven’t authored anything
  • And take the people who were signed up as reviewers to have them review
  • We could add more context to the user stories, deadline of three weeks

• New category of User called Data Scientists
  • expertise is in extraction of data
  • knowledge not necessarily in domain science
  • question is should we start looking at this group to see if they have unique needs
  • as a collaboratory can we help them
  • Chris was reading the Nate Silver book and realized he was a data scientists
  • not trying to figure out the science, they don’t use benchmark data sets
  • we might want to consider as a community to build benchmark data sets

2. Petr Votava will talk about the NASA Earth Exchange

• https://c3.nasa.gov/nex/
• Goal: collaborative environment, brings scientists and researchers together
• three groups of people: NEX infrastructure, NEX Data/Software platform, NEX Science
• drivers: people spend a lot of their time dealing with data, sharing knowledge is difficult, no standard mechanisms for transparency and repeatability
• Target users: backend, research scientists, interdisciplinary, graduate student researchers
• Data: climate datasets, prism, modis land,
• web portal will be redesigned this year
• Goal: StackOverflow for the Earth Sciences
• Scaling up to global features
• Collaboration portal, centralized data repository,
• Summer workshop 2013: try to prepare some of these virtual machines with workflows, data, will provide students with access and hand on labs
• Users: direct, API, and workflow, open source project
• on ground floor of development
• Types of Users:
  • Earth Science Community Users
  • NEX Science Users
• Constraints:
  • Security
  • Policies
  • Resources: Disk, computing, time
• User Contribution: Data, Tools, Models, Codes
• Challenges:
  • Big-data may generate even more big data
  • Workflow Management: Vis Trails
  • Science Data Management: MySQL, Mondo DB, OpenDAP

Question from Chris Who’s allowed in the workshop: still trying to work out