Robert Grossman: Data Webs
Event: NASA Goddard Information Science & Technology (IS&T) Colloquium, November 12, 2003.
Title:Beyond Data Grids: Data Webs, Lambda Grids, and All ThatSpeaker: Robert Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago and Open Data Partners
Abstract: A data web is a web based infrastructure for exploring, integrating, analyzing, and mining remote and distributed data. In this talk, we give an overview of data webs, including a comparison of data webs and data grids. We also describes DataSpace, which is an open source infrastructure to create data webs. As the size of remote data sets grow, developing more effective network and data protocols becomes critical. A lambda grid is an advanced photonic network in which applications can request, monitor, and tear down their own light paths or lambdas. DataSpace is not only designed to operate on today's commodity internet, but also on tomorrow's high performance routed networks and wavelength switched lambda grids. We will illustrate the talk with DataSpace applications from a variety of disciplines, including earth sciences, bioinformatics, and business.
About the Speaker: Robert Grossman is the Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Computing and the National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also the President of Open Data Partners. The NCDM hosts the Data Mining Group, which develops data mining standards, and operates the Tera Wide Data Mining Grid Testbed, a testbed for high performance and distributed data mining. He has published over 100 papers and edited four books on data mining, business intelligence, distributed computing, high performance computing, high performance networking, and related areas.