Real-Time Observational Multiple Data Streaming and Machine Learning for Environmental Research using Lightpaths

The Ecogrid is a grid-based ecological and biological surveillance system that uses sensors and video cameras to monitor Taiwan’s coral reef ecosystem and wild-life behavior. Based on grid technologies, the Ecogrid can be regarded as an open-layered pipeline: the sensors collect raw images and transmit information over IP; grid middleware is used for distributed computing and data storage; and, then the data is analyzed, synthesized and archived for scientific discovery. At iGrid, images from high-definition underwater monitoring cameras in the coral reef reserve of Kenting, Taiwan, as well as an innovative Omni-directional Camera for a tele-presence from Osaka are streamed to San Diego, demonstrating the technologies that have been developed for real-time data streaming. Also demonstrated is stereo image streaming, which is currently being studied as a way to do machine learning. Using UCLP, a single end user controls the setup of lightpaths between Taiwan and North America. The lightpath of TWAREN (Taiwan Advanced Research and Educational Network) of NCHC will be able to provide combined bandwidths for the X-Pacific links of 2.5G.b/s between Taiwan and US.

Reference:

Taiwan Ecogrid Project: http://ecogrid.nchc.org.tw

Taiwan Advanced Research and Education Network: http://www.twaren.net/english/
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (JP): Networked Tele-presence System Using Omni-directional Images

CANARIE UCLP Software: http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/uclp/index.html

AIAI, Edinburgh University: Workflow Enactment in the Ecogrid

Contact:
Sun-In Lin and Fang-Pang Lin
National Center for High Performance Computing (NCHC), Taiwan
lsi@nchc.org.tw and fplin@nchc.org.tw

Collaborators:
NCHC (TW): Eugene Yeh, Fay Sheu, Jing-Jou Yen, Fang-Pang Lin, Sun-In Lin, Shi-Wei Lo, Te-LungLiu, Jiunn-Jye Chen, Hsiu-Mei Chou, Po-Wen Chen. Yao-Tsung Wang, Kuen-Yu Huang.

NMMBA (TW): Tong-Yun Fan, Yung-Hui Chen
Academia Sinica (TW): Rong-Quen Jan, Kuang-Chao Shao

SDSC (US): Arun Swaran Jagatheesan, Arcot Rajasekar, Peter Arzberger

Nara Institute of Science and Technology (JP): Kazutoshi Fujikawa
CMC, Osaka University (JP): Shinji Shimojo

CANARIE (CA): Herve Guy.
AIAI, Edinburgh University (UK): Jessica Chen-Burger, David Robertson.