Grid Computing Research Laboratory State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton Department of Computer Science

Ian Atkinson and Douglas du Boulay and Clinton Chee and Kenneth Chiu and Paul Coddington and Andrea Gerson and Tristan King and Donald McMullen and Romain Quilici and Peter Turner and Andrew Wendelborn and Mathew Wyatt and and Donglai Zhang
"Developing CIMA based Remote Access for Collaborative e-Research",
5th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid 2007),
Ballarat. January, 2007
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Abstract
the SRB data store in real time in a schema that allows for searching on the basis of metadata or user supplied annotations, image file previewing and data management and download. The CCLRC scientific metadata model is being adopted for metadata definition. In addition to monitoring, CIMA is being further extended to support instrument control, and is being embedded as a component in a feature rich portal for remote instrument access. The portal utilises AJAX and Pushlet technologies for portlet refresh and updating. An X3D based 3D virtual representation of the instrument provides data collection simulation and (pseudo) real time instrument representation. The system is being further augmented with an embryonic tool for multi-user collaborative data evaluation.

Key Words
Remote Access, Cyberinfrastructure, e-Research, CIMA, GridSphere, Grid Services, Web services, Kepler, SRB, Crystallography, Virtual Instrument, Collaboration.