The goal of CoastDaP (Coastal
Data Pipelines) project is to develop and implement a middleware which will
enable coastal scientists efficiently process and analyze large scale coastal
data. This middleware will decrease the human intervention during the
end-to-end processing, archival and retrieval of coastal data; and will speed
up the analysis of the data for hurricane track prediction, storm surge
modeling, and coastal recovery.
LSUGrid is a project to deploy a
campus-wide distributed system (Campus Grid) using the existing idle
resources at LSU. This will provide a computational power of around 2000 processors
for free, in addition to the already existing supercomputing resources at the
campus. LSUGrid is a joint effort between the
Center for Computation and Technology, the Department of Computer Science,
and the Information
Technology Services at LSU.
PetaShare is an innovative
distributed data archival, analysis and visualization cyberinfrastructure
for data intensive collaborative research. It will enable transparent
handling of underlying data sharing, archival, and retrieval mechanisms, and
will make data available to scientists for analysis and visualization on
demand. It will enable scientists to focus on their primary research problem,
assured that the underlying infrastructure will manage the low-level data
handling issues. PetaShare is collaborative effort
between LSU, LaTech, ULL, UNO, and TulaneUniversity.
Stork is a batch scheduler specialized in data placement
and data movement, which is based on the concept and ideal of “making data
placement a first class entity” in a distributed computing environment. Stork
implements techniques specific to queuing, scheduling, and optimization of
data placement jobs, and provides a level of abstraction between the user
applications and the underlying data transfer and storage resources. Stork is
an ongoing joint project between LouisianaStateUniversity
and University
of Wisconsin-Madison.
