Project DataSpace and the Terra Mining Testbed
The web today provides an infrastructure for working with distributed
multimedia documents, but not for remotely exploring data. Project
DataSpace is an attempt to provide such an infrastructure. It contains
protocols for mining distributed data and is effective for distributed
workstation clusters connected with high performance networks
(super-clusters) and commodity networks (meta-clusters). The Terabyte
Challenge, the testbed for Project DataSpace, will link 12 sites on five
continents and demonstrate a variety of applications which will publish,
access, analyze, correlate and manipulate remote and distributed data.
The Terra Mining Testbed is an infrastructure built on top of DataSpace for
remote analysis, distributed data mining and real-time interaction with
large, complex data sets. In a demonstration at SC'02, the DataSpace team
accessed, correlated and then visualized data from the National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR), National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) and World Health Organization (WHO)a CERN linked
institutionto study the correlation between El Nino and cholera outbreaks.
Terra Mining applications are designed to exploit the capabilities of
emerging domestic and international optical networks so that gigabyte and
terabyte datasets can be remotely explored in real time.
The demonstration also showcased PC-based clusters called TeraNodes, now
being deployed throughout the world, which will be dedicated to massive
computation, data mining or visualization over national and international
high performance networks. In coming years, as optical technology
transforms networking capabilities, TeraNodes will become the building
blocks for an optically connected web of data.
Collaborators
Project DataSpace:
University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Caltech, NCAR, University of California/Davis, Magnify Research Inc., USA;
Imperial College, England;
ACYys/Canberra, Australia
Terra Mining Testbed:
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA;
SARA, The Netherlands;
Dalhousie University, Canada;
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, England;
Virginia Tech and ACCESS DC, Internet2, University of California/Davis,
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Contact
Robert Grossman
University of Illinois at Chicago
grossman@uic.edu
http://www.dataspaceweb.net/
http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/
