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

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