Remote and interactive access to instruments in the grid
The Virtual Laboratory provided remote, interactive access to scientific instrumentation embedded in a grid environment, with job management, interactive task invocation and secure access to resources. Its Digital Science Library stored and shared experiment results and played a central role in the system. The first production use was nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
Dynamic measurement scenarios
Dynamic measurement scenarios provide advanced workflow control: they define and monitor the whole measurement process, from preparation through experimental and computational steps to analysis of the results, as tasks connected by conditional links, illustrated with NMR laboratory examples.
Applications and European projects
The approach was extended to genomics experiments with microarrays and to radio astronomy, where grid integration supported e-VLBI experiments with arrays of radio telescopes (EXPReS). In RINGrid I was deputy principal investigator of a support action that designed foundations for remote access to scientific and industrial instruments over next-generation grids, and in DORII work package leader in the deployment of a remote instrumentation e-infrastructure for earthquake, environmental and experimental science communities. With colleagues I co-edited the Springer book Remote Instrumentation for eScience and Related Aspects.
Publications
- Remote Instrumentation for eScience and Related Aspects (Springer, 2012)
- Integration of the Laboratory Instruments with e-Infrastructure (Computational Methods in Science and Technology, 2010)
- Virtual Laboratory and its Application in Genomics (Remote Instrumentation and Virtual Laboratories, Springer, 2010)
- Towards Deployment of the Remote Instrumentation e-Infrastructure (in the Frame of the DORII Project) (Computational Methods in Science and Technology, 2009)
- New approach to Genomics Experiments Taking Advantage of Virtual Laboratory System (Computational Methods in Science and Technology, 2009)
- User Interaction and Workflow Management in Grid enabled e-VLBI Experiments (Computational Methods in Science and Technology, 2009)
- Digital Science Library in Remote Instrumentation Systems (Grid Enabled Remote Instrumentation, Springer, 2009)
- Virtual Laboratory as a Remote and Interactive Access to the Scientific Instrumentation Embedded in Grid Environment (IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, 2006)
- Running Interactive Jobs in the Grid Environment (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2006)
- Effective Job Management in the Virtual Laboratory (European Grid Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2005)
- Dynamic Measurement Scenarios in the Virtual Laboratory system (IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing, 2004)
- General Conception of the Virtual Laboratory (ICCS 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Projects: RINGrid (deputy principal investigator), DORII (work package leader), EXPReS. The full list of papers and talks on this topic is under Publications and Conferences.
Other research topics: Performance and energy of CFD on AMD EPYC · Divisible load scheduling · Digital twins and environmental simulation · IT for natural history collections · all research themes.
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