Remote Instrumentation for eScience and Related Aspects
Making scientific instruments a manageable resource over distributed computing infrastructures such as the grid has been a key focal point of e-science research in recent years. It is now known by the generic term ‘remote instrumentation’, and is the subj
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Franco Davoli • Marcin Lawenda Norbert Meyer • Roberto Pugliese Jan We˛ glarz • Sandro Zappatore Editors
Remote Instrumentation for eScience and Related Aspects
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Editors Franco Davoli DIST-University of Genoa Via Opera Pia 13 16145 Genova Italy [email protected] Norbert Meyer Pozna´n Supercomputing and Networking Center Noskowskiego 10 61-704 Pozna´n Poland [email protected] Jan We˛ glarz Pozna´n Supercomputing and Networking Center Noskowskiego 10 61-704 Pozna´n Poland [email protected]
Marcin Lawenda Pozna´n Supercomputing and Networking Center Noskowskiego 10 61-704 Pozna´n Poland [email protected] Roberto Pugliese Sincrotrone Trieste S.c.p.A. Department of Information Technology S.S. 14, km 163.5, Area Science Park 34012 Basovizza, Trieste Italy [email protected] Sandro Zappatore DIST-University of Genoa Via Opera Pia 13 16145 Genova Italy [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4614-0507-8 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-0508-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-0508-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011938142 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
e-Science is a complex set of disciplines requiring computationally intensive distributed operations, high-speed networking, and collaborative working tools. As such, it is most often (and correctly) associated with grid- and cloud-computing infrastructures and middleware. However, an essential component is sometimes overlooked in this picture, which consists of the scientific instrumentation providing either the very source of data, or special purpose analytical (as in chemical or biological laboratories) and processing tools (as in electronic Very Large Baseline Interferometry, or eVLBI, and in the use of various measurement devices). Making scientific instruments an essential manageable resource over distributed computing infrastructures, such as the grid, has been the focus of a specific research area referred to as Remote Instrumentation, over recent years. European research has been quite active in it, through projects like GRIDCC (Grid Enabled Remote Instrumentation with Distributed Control and Computation), RINGrid (Remote Instrumentation in Grid environment) and
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