Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Time: 10:20 AM
Time: 10:20 AM
Room: California
The iPlant Collaborative’s mission is to create a comprehensive set of cyberinfrastructure to support plant research. Concluding year four of this project, iPlant has successfully developed and deployed a variety of integrated technologies and computational resources that provide access to large data storage, high-performance computing, grid computing, and cloud computing. These resources are made assessable to a diversity of scientists including field biologists, experimental biologists, computational biologists and computer scientists by providing access at multiple levels including application programming interfaces (APIs), RESTful services, and a variety of rich web-based systems to access data, integrate computational tools, and perform analyses. This workshop will give an overview of iPlant’s computational resources, how a set of plant biologists have made use of these technologies to enable their research through scalable computation and how they have enabled others to use their methodologies, and provide a hands-on training session on how to use a subset of iPlant’s resources including:
- iPlant Discovery Environment: iPlant’s flagship rich web-based system for integrating data and analyses (http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/discover/discovery-environment)
- iPlant Data Store: iPlant’s cloud data storage system based on iRODS. Supports the transfer and storage for all your projects’ data. (http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/discover/data-store ; https://www.irods.org)
- iPlant Atmosphere: iPlant’s could computing system that provides easy access for creating and using complete linux servers with pre-installed analytical software (http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/discover/atmosphere)