Community Grids Lab CICC Activities

1
Community Grids Lab CICC Activities

• Geoffrey Fox, Marlon Pierce
• Indiana University

2
CGL Contributions to CICC

• Build Web/Grid services for connecting
• Data sources
• Applications (simulation, data mining, data
  assimilation, imaging, etc).
• Computing resources
• Information services.
• Third party tool evaluation
• Workflow (Taverna)
• Grid tools Globus and Condor (for interacting
  with TeraGrid)
• Building standards-based Web portal environments.
• OGCE grid portal project
• JSR 168 Java standards.
• This activity will begin in earnest over the
  summer.

3
BCI Clustering Service Methods
4
Local Web Service Methods for WWMM of PMRs Group
5
More Services
6
ToxTree Service

• An open Java source application by Nina
  Jeliazkova
• Estimates toxic hazard by applying a decision
  tree approach.
• Encodes the Cramer scheme
• (Cramer G. M., R. A. Ford, R. L. Hall,
  Estimation of Toxic Hazard - A Decision Tree
  Approach, J. Cosmet. Toxicol., Vol.16, pp.
  255-276, Pergamon Press, 1978)
• Could be applied to datasets from various
  compatible file types.
• We are converting this GUI application to a
  text-based web service

7
OSCAR3 Service

• An under-development open Java source application
  by Peter Murray-Rust group at Cambridge, UK. (Not
  published yet)
• Extracts chemical information from either a
  paragraph of experimental data, or a full paper
  (e.g. melting points, Rf, infra-red and NMR data,
  and mass spectral information)
• Produces an XML instance highlighting the
  chemical information with an Extensible
  Stylesheet Language (XSL) file
• We are attaching SOAP input/output engine for a
  web service

8
Other Areas of Lab Expertise

• Distributed messaging systems for web services
  and other applications.
• NaradaBrokering.org
• Apache Axis contributions
• Audio/Video Collaboration
• Globalmmcs.org
• Web Services for Geographical Information Systems
• www.crisisgrid.org
• Web services for information, metadata, and
  management
• HPSearch.org
• Opengrids.org