1. Simplifying
Data
Management
Tasks
with
Globus
Tanu
Malik,
Ian
Foster,
Kyle
Chard,
Roselyne
Tchoua,
Joseph
Baker,
Mike
Gurnis,
Jonathan
Goodall,
ScoD
Peckham
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2. Share and Reproduce
Alice wants to share her models and
simulation output with Bob, and Bob wants
to re-execute Alice’s application to validate
her inputs and outputs.
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3. Alice’s Options
1. A tar and gzip
2. Build a website with model code,
parameters, and data
3. Create a virtual machine
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4. Bob’s Frustration
1. I do not find the lib.so required for building
the model.
2. How do I?
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Lack of easy and efficient methods for sharing
and reproducibility
Amount of pain
Bob suffers
Amount of
pain Alice suffers

5. GeoDataspace
• Goal: Sharing and reproducibility hand-in-
hand
• Target users: Computational geoscientists
• Data and model integration
• Research Output is More Than "Just" a Research Paper
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6. GeoDataspace
CI Components
• The geounits
• Units of scientific activity/research output
• How to capture and track this activity
• Globus Catalog
• A scalable, flexible catalog for annotations
conforming to open-world assumption
• Globus Publish and reproduce geounits
• Share/Publish geounits for others
• Replay geounits for analysis
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7. geounits:
package data , source code and
environment
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8. geounit Client:
Provenance is key
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1. audit
<program name>
2. PROV
compliant
database
3. exec
<program name>
[activity]

9. geounit Client:
Features
• Based on Code, Data, Environment (CDE’s)
ptrace and okapi functionality
• Data/code can be local or distributed
• Data/code files are not manifested into the
package until ready to share; only
descriptions in package
• Specify granularity of auditing
• Partial replay
• Unpack into docker or vagrant

10. Globus Catalog:
hosts geounits
• Dataset Management Model
• Catalog: a hosted resource that enables
the grouping of related datasets
• Dataset: a virtual collection of
(schemaless) metadata and distributed
data elements viz files, provenance
• Annotation: a piece of metadata that
exists within the context of a dataset or
data member
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11. Globus Catalog
• Dataset Service
• Virtual views of data based on user-defined and/or automatically
extracted metadata (annotations)
• Implemented as a service with web and REST interfaces
• Relies on Globus Nexus for user authentication and group management
• Client-side Tooling
• Dataset ingest
• Automatic creation of datasets and extraction of metadata from various
common data formats and directory structures
• Globus endpoints
• Associate data (in files and directories) with one or more datasets
• Python Client library
• Integration with external services
• Transfer: Moving datasets from their storage endpoint(s) to a selected
destination
• Faceted Browser Search
• Search based on provenance entities and activities
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12. Globus Catalog:
REST interface
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Approach
• Hosted user-defined catalogs
• Based on annotation model
<dataset/member, name, value>
• Association of data members
• Fine grained access control
• Flexible query language
– Name:value, free text, facets,…
• Integrated with other
services
/geodataspace
/geodataspace/annotation
/geodataspace/geounit
/geodataspace/geounit/annotation
/geodataspace/geounit/acl
/geodataspace/geounit/members
/geodataspace/geounit/members/annotation
/geodataspace/geounit/provenance
/geodataspace/geounit/version

13. Publish and Reexecute
geounits
• Still in the works
• Each geounit can be published through
Globus Publish and re-executed through
analysis platform
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14. Science Drivers
Solid Earth
Space Science
Hydrology
CSDMS
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15. Solid Earth
• Allow reproducible, replayable geounits of GPlates
• GPlates
• Software package has several dependencies
• Create geounits of Kinematic Representation of
Surface of Earth (3D and 4D models)
• GPlates software,
• GPML files (XML for plate tectonics) used in the model,
• output GPML files are simple X/Y format or could be visualization files, a
global set of visualization output, images as well.
• Integrating geounits in Python workflows
• Incorporate metadata from workflows and use geounit metadata to
inform workflows
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16. Hydrology
• Data processing steps for theVIC model
geounit 1
geounit 2
geounit 3 geounit 4
Objective: Monitor changes in the data processing steps
and compare them across the various runs
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17. Space Science
• Create geounits of SuperDarn data and its
plotting products
• Publish them for validation
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18. CSDMS
• How geounits should be coupled
• Metadata alignment issues
• If we create geounits of CSDMS models,
how do we enable suitable search
interfaces with the provenance metadata
and CSDMS metadata?
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19. Current Work
• Working with use cases to bootstrap
geounits
• Populating geounits based on Python
workflows and incorporate geounits in
workflows
• Interfacing geounit Client with Globus
Catalog
• Improving distributed search functionality
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20. Track it!
• http://workspace.earthcube.org/
geodataspace
• Software, Source code, Science Usecases,
Reports, Presentations, News
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21. Acknowledgements
• National Science Foundation
• EarthCube Community
• Globus team
• CI team
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