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iSERVO: Implementing the International Solid Earth Research Virtual Observatory by Integrating Computational Grid and Geographical Information Web Services

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We describe the goals and initial implementation of the International Solid Earth Virtual Observatory (iSERVO). This system is built using a Web Services approach to Grid computing infrastructure and is accessed via a component-based Web portal user interface. We describe our implementations of services used by this system, including Geographical Information System (GIS)-based data grid services for accessing remote data repositories and job management services for controlling multiple execution steps. iSERVO is an example of a larger trend to build globally scalable scientific computing infrastructures using the Service Oriented Architecture approach. Adoption of this approach raises a number of research challenges in millisecond-latency message systems suitable for internet-enabled scientific applications. We review our research in these areas.

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  1. Community Grids Lab, Indiana University, Bloomington, 47404-3730, IN

    Mehmet Aktas, Galip Aydin, Shrideep Pallickara & Ahmet Sayar

  2. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 183-335, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA, 91109-8099, USA

    Andrea Donnellan

  3. Community Grids Laboratory, Departments of Computer Science, Physics, and School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 47404-3730, USA

    Geoffrey Fox

  4. NASA JPL, Mail Stop 126-347, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA, 91109-8099

    Robert Granat

  5. Environmental Analysis and Design, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California, 92697-7070, USA

    Lisa Grant

  6. NASA JPL, Mail Stop 126-347, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA, 91109-8099

    Greg Lyzenga

  7. University of Southern Califoria, Mail Code 0781, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0742

    Dennis McLeod

  8. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 238-600, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA, 91109-8099, USA

    Jay Parker

  9. Community Grids Laboratory, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 47404-3730, USA

    Marlon Pierce

  10. Department of Physics, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616-8677, USA

    John Rundle

  11. Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912-1846, USA

    Terry Tullis

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Aktas, M., Aydin, G., Donnellan, A. et al. iSERVO: Implementing the International Solid Earth Research Virtual Observatory by Integrating Computational Grid and Geographical Information Web Services. Pure appl. geophys. 163, 2281–2296 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-006-0137-8

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