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Data-intensive architecture for scientific knowledge discovery

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This paper presents a data-intensive architecture that demonstrates the ability to support applications from a wide range of application domains, and support the different types of users involved in defining, designing and executing data-intensive processing tasks. The prototype architecture is introduced, and the pivotal role of DISPEL as a canonical language is explained. The architecture promotes the exploration and exploitation of distributed and heterogeneous data and spans the complete knowledge discovery process, from data preparation, to analysis, to evaluation and reiteration. The architecture evaluation included large-scale applications from astronomy, cosmology, hydrology, functional genetics, imaging processing and seismology.

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  1. The Square Kilometer Array (http://www.skatelescope.org) will generate about 200 GB of raw data per second and the LOFAR (http://www.lofar.org/) low band antennas generate 1.6 TB raw data per second.

  2. The Euclid Imaging Consortium (http://www.ias.u-psud.fr/imEuclid) will generate 1 PB data per year and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (http://www.lsst.org) will generate several petabytes of new image and catalogue data every year.

  3. Sloan Digital Sky Survey: http://www.sdss.org/.

  4. ADMIRE project: http://www.admire-project.eu/.

  5. ADMIRE prototype: http://sourceforge.net/projects/admire/.

  6. ADMIRE publications: http://www.admire-project.eu/admire-library/index.html.

  7. Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org/.

  8. These are functions that when supplied with parameters such as PEs, generate graphs with those PEs in them. The graph is then treated just like any other.

  9. Virtual Earthquake and seismology Research Community e-science environment in Europe: http://www.verce.eu/.

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The work presented in this paper is supported by the ADMIRE project (funded by EU FP7-ICT- 215024) and the e-Science Core Programme Senior Research Fellow programme (funded by the UK EPSRC EP/D079829/1).

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  1. School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, UK

    Malcolm Atkinson, Michelle Galea & Paul Martin

  2. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Chee Sun Liew

  3. EPCC, University of Edinburgh, JCMB, The King’s Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK

    Amrey Krause & Adrian Mouat

  4. Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Oscar Corcho

  5. Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Limited, Hayes, Middlesex, UB4 8FE, UK

    David Snelling

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Atkinson, M., Liew, C.S., Galea, M. et al. Data-intensive architecture for scientific knowledge discovery. Distrib Parallel Databases 30, 307–324 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10619-012-7105-3

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