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Pilot Semantic Grid Service for Environmental Modelling

Principal Investigator – Dr Pete Edwards, University of Aberdeen
Contact - pedwards @ csd.abdn.ac.uk
Website - http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/research/fearg/

This project aimed to explore the potential application of emerging Grid technologies within the social sciences, through deployment of an existing land-use modelling tool into the Grid context. Measurable outcomes of the project included: the successful deployment of a land-use modelling tool as a Grid service, and evaluation of the suitability of Grid standards, methodology, and tools for such a social science application.
The key objectives were:

  • To serve a well-established environmental modelling framework to the scientific community, allowing very large-scale experiments to be run, analysed, and repeated
  • To explore, through a case study, costs and benefits of emerging Grid standards, methodology and tools in environmental modelling
  • To promote collaboration among environmental modellers by facilitating access to alternative models and comparison of results
  • To support training of environmental scientists, by providing a shared co-laboratory environment for experimentation
  • To foster interdisciplinary research between computing and environmental scientists

Presentations

P D F documentPilot Semantic Grid Service for Environmental Modelling
A. Preece, E. Pignotti, University of Aberdeen
NCeSS All Hands Meeting, Manchester, 5 – 6 July 2004

Publications

ESRC End of Award Report

ESRC Plain English Summary

ESRC Non-technical Summary