Servilla, M., R. Butler, D.M. Freemon, and S.H. Gage
Presented at the All Scientist Poster Reception (2006-05-09 )
Grid computing enables a user community to obtain relatively seamless access to a wide array of large scale computational services for solving massive computational problems and to share information with collaborators.The LTER Grid Pilot Study was conducted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the University of New Mexico, and Michigan State University, to design and build a prototype grid for the ecological community. The featured grid application, the Biophony Grid Portal, manages acoustic data from field sensors and allows researchers to conduct real-time digital signal processing analysis on high-performance systems via a web-based portal.This overview of the Biophony Grid Portal application and its requirements discusses considerations regarding grid architecture and design. details the technical implementation, and summarizes key experiences and lessons learned that are generally applicable to at developers and administrators in a grid environment.The Biophony Grid Portal serves as a use case to illustrate the potential of near real-time automated species identification of vocal organisms as well as the specific identification of human technology which can result in disturbance of ecological integrity.Back to Poster Titles
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