Franco Davoli Norbert Meyer Roberto Pugliese Sandro Zappatore (editors) Title: Remote Instrumentation for eScience and Related Aspects Accessing remote instrumentation worldwide is one of the goals of eScience. But the task of enabling the execution of complex experiments that involve the use of distributed scientific instruments requires a number of different architectural domains. Given the large number of different instruments and their application domains, understanding the common requirements, the user needs, the adaptation and convergence layers, among other things, is not simple, and that is the task of Remote Instrumentation Services (RIS). This text, like its predecessors, addresses the most relevant related aspects of RIS. Remote Instrumentation for eScience and Related Aspects is broken into five main parts. Part I centers on the concepts of Instrument Element and Virtual Control Room. Part II covers different features of Grid resource management on operations that are relevant in the context of RIS. Part III focuses on networking, one of the key supporting technologies that enable the interconnection of data sources and the transport of data. Part IV discusses application environments in various user communities, including eVLBI and its exploitation of high-speed networks, oceanographic applications, and road traffic data acquisition and modeling. And Part V is devoted to two learning environments where Remote Instrumentation plays a role of increasing importance; specifically it describes the main feature and demonstrator scenarios of BW-eLabs in Germany, and it reports on a distributed educational laboratory that is part of the “Wireless Trondheim” initiative in Norway.
Author(s): Francesco Lelli, Cesare Pautasso (auth.), Franco Davoli, Norbert Meyer, Roberto Pugliese, Sandro Zappatore (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer US
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 325
Tags: Communications Engineering, Networks
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Design and Evaluation of a RESTful API for Controlling and Monitoring Heterogeneous Devices....Pages 3-13
Parametric Jobs – Facilitation of Instrument Elements Usage In Grid Applications....Pages 15-31
The Grid as a Software Application Provider in a Synchrotron Radiation Facility....Pages 33-39
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
An Optimized Architecture for Supporting Data Streaming in Interactive Grids....Pages 43-59
EDGeS Bridge Technologies to Interconnect Service and Desktop Grids....Pages 61-71
Management Challenges of Automated Service Level Agreements....Pages 73-84
Storage and Analysis Infrastructure for Data Acquisition Systems with High Data Rates....Pages 85-102
GridWalker: A Visual Tool for Supporting Advanced Discovery of Grid Resources....Pages 103-111
A Bio-Inspired Scheduling Algorithm for Grid Environments....Pages 113-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Topology Design of a Service Overlay Network for e-Science Applications....Pages 131-147
BitTorrent for Storage and File Transfer in Grid Environments....Pages 149-162
Context Awareness in Autonomic Heterogeneous Environments....Pages 163-178
Enabling e-Infrastructures in Italy Through the GARR Network....Pages 179-192
Academic MANs and PIONIER – Polish Road to e-Infrastructure for e-Science....Pages 193-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
The Impact of Global High-Speed Networks on Radio Astronomy....Pages 209-229
Observatory Middleware Framework (OMF)....Pages 231-239
Analysis and Optimization of Performance Characteristics for MPI Parallel Scientific Applications on the Grid (A Case Study for the OPATM-BFM Simulation Application)....Pages 241-253
Network-Centric Earthquake Engineering Simulations....Pages 255-269
A Grid Approach for Calibrating and Comparing Microscopic Road Traffic Models....Pages 271-281
Front Matter....Pages 283-283
Networking Resources for Research and Scientific Education in BW-eLabs....Pages 285-302
Front Matter....Pages 283-283
“The SIP Pod” – A VoIP Student Lab/Playground....Pages 303-314
Back Matter....Pages 315-325
