Presentation at RDA
A) Approaches to interoperability among Science Gateways
B) Key ingredients for successful and vibrant virtual research communities
C) Sustainability of Science Gateways - what are the current models that work (and conversely have failed))
What Are The Drone Anti-jamming Systems Technology?
SGCI Science Gateways Landscape in North America
1. Award Number
ACI-1547611
Sandra Gesing, Christine Kirkpatrick, Mark Leggott, Natalie
Meyers, Jarek Nabrzyski
The North America Team
9th RDA Plenary Meeting
5 April 2017
The Science Gateways
Landscape in North America
2. Approaches to interoperability among
VREs, VLs and SGs
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i. Use of common standards,
technologies etc.
ii. How to encourage convergence on
common elements of a virtual research
environment (architecture/services)
3. Large Infrastructure Projects
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• 2004 TeraGrid project director Rick Stevens recognized
growth in scientific portal development and proposed the
Science Gateway Program
• Followed up by XSEDE’s Science Gateway Program
All users
Gateways
Login
Gateway
users are
77% of
active
XSEDE
users in
Q4 2016
4. Science Gateways Community Institute -
Conceptualization
What services
would be helpful?
2014 - Science Gateway Survey
• sent out to 29,000 persons
• 4,957 responses from
across domains
• 52% from life, physical or
mathematical sciences
• 32% from computer and
information sciences or
engineering
• 45% develop data collections
• 44% develop data analysis
tools
5. Science Gateways Community Institute
• Funded from 1 Aug 2016 –
31 Jul 2021 by NSF
• Diverse expertise on demand
• Longer term support
engagements
• Software and visibility for
gateways
• Information exchange in a
community environment
• Student opportunities and
more stable career paths
help@sciencegateways.org
http://sciencegateways.org/
7. Interoperability Approaches
• Open source, open
standards
• Hosted platforms with
customized storage,
such as OSF
• Integrated Dockerized
stacks, such as US
National Data Service
(NDS) Workbench.
• Reuse components
• Market share increases
with usability
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8. Technologies
• Widely used complete frameworks (Galaxy, HubZero, Open Science
Framework etc.)
• RESTful APIs and support of multiple programming languages in widely
used frameworks (Apache Airavata, the Agave platform, etc.)
• Reused interface implementations such as the one of CIPRES with its
RESTful API (CIPRES has served more than 20,000 users to date)
• Science gateways as a service with provision of hardware in the
background such as SciGap (Science Gateway Platform as a Service)
Lessons learned: approaches should be technology agnostic, using
APIs and standard web technologies OR deliver a complete solution
Community Engagement is key
HubZero instances world wide
10. Many Successful Groups/Centers at
Universities
Benefits
• Great visibility for the institution’s
research activities
• Synergy between projects
• Shared resources, costs and expertise
across departments
• Lower learning curves
• Expertise that is otherwise difficult for
individual projects to obtain
• Ability to retain top-quality research
computing support by providing
interesting projects
Examples for success stories:
• Center for Research
Computing at the
University of Notre Dame
• HubZero Team at the
Purdue University
• Science Gateways
Research Center at the
Indiana University
• Science Gateway Group at
TACC (University of Texas,
Austin)
• Leveraging Generic
Platforms like OSF
11. Funding Bodies
Funding bodies such as NSF and NIH mention science
gateways direct in solicitations and roadmaps!
https://dibbs17.org/r
eport/Presentations/
KeynoteQualters.pdf
12. Workshop Series GCE and conference
series Gateways
• 2006: GCE (Gateway Computing Environment) workshop series started –
successful 10th anniversary in 2015
• since 2013: Partnering with European IWSG (International Workshop on
Science Gateways) on yearly special issue
9th IWSG will take place 19-21 June 2017 in Poznań, Poland
• since 2015: Partnering with Australian IWSG-A (International Workshop on
Science Gateways – Australia) on yearly special issue
3rd IWSG-A will take place 16-17 October in Brisbane, Australia
• 2016: GCE extended to Gateways conference with 120 participants at the
first event
Gateways 2017 will take place 23–25 October 2017 in Ann Arbor,
Michigan,USA
13. • Science Gateways Community Institute
http://sciencegateways.org
• Gateways Conference
http://sciencegateways.org/gateways2017/
• XSEDE Science Gateways
https://www.xsede.org/gateways-overview
• CRC Science Gateways
https://crc.nd.edu/index.php/research/gateways
Thanks for your attention!
Editor's Notes
OSF offers a open source hosted platform with the ability to use AWS storage in specified zones (or countries).
NDS has a workbench for running several data management packages that can be launched from a common interface with all of the integration issues worked out.
OSF and NDS reuse components where ever possible. OSF can create BagIT projects and put data collections directly into Fedora Commons or Hydra. NDS is working with the NSF WholeTale project to extend work they’ve built on top of Girder for file access and Globus for data movement and authentication that shows data alongside publication. NDS is further extending this to allow nearby compute to mount the data to rerun analysis shown in the pubs, such as Jupyter notebooks, or R Studio.
Here’s another example of reusing components for VREs. The Biomedical Big Data Training Collaborative uses HubZero, which in turn makes it easy to port learning info between HubZero sites – important since the BBDTC has MOOC and curriculum components.
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