Paper Info
Title
Scibox: Online Sharing of Scientific Data via the Cloud
Abstract
Collaborative science demands global sharing of scientific data. But it cannot leverage universally accessible cloud-based infrastructures like Drop Box, as those offer limited interfaces and inadequate levels of access bandwidth. We present the Scibox cloud facility for online sharing scientific data. It uses standard cloud storage solutions, but offers a usage model in which high end codes can write/read data to/from the cloud via the APIs they already use for their I/O actions. With Scibox, data upload/download volumes are controlled via Data Reduction-functions stated by end users and applied at the data source, before data is moved, with further gains in efficiency obtained by combining DR-functions to move exactly what is needed by current data consumers. We evaluate Scibox with science applications and their representative data analytics - the GTS fusion and the combustion image processing - demonstrating the potential for ubiquitous data access with substantial reductions in network traffic.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/IPDPS.2014.26
IPDPS
Keywords
Field
DocType
scibox,cloud storage,application program interfaces,network traffic,data source,data download volumes,scientific data,i-o actions,combustion image processing,standard cloud storage solutions,data analysis,gts fusion,cloud storage, data sharing, scientific data,end users,ubiquitous computing,scibox cloud facility,data upload volumes,data consumers,dropbox,representative data analytics,api,ubiquitous data access,cloud computing,collaborative science,online sharing,dr-functions,data sharing,bandwidth,data models,distributed databases
Data analysis,End user,Computer science,Upload,Data sharing,Computer network,Data virtualization,Data access,Cloud storage,Database,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1530-2075
4
0.44
References 
Authors
10
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J. Huang14412.63
Xuechen Zhang229221.94
Greg Eisenhauer386667.45
Karsten Schwan4101374.53
Matthew Wolf557539.27
Stephane Ethier629131.10
Scott Klasky7154799.00