Michael Weber presenting Rechenkraft.net - From Volunteers to Scientists, at the Citizen Cyberlab Summit, 17-18 September 2015, University of Geneva (UNIGE).
There are only three weeks to go until the start of the ICIC - The International Conference for the Information Community - meeting in 2013. The meeting is filling fast, so if you intend to come, please get your booking in as soon as possible: http://www.haxel.com/icic/2013/registration
When you attend the ICIC 2013 you will meet colleagues from following companies and organizations: http://www.haxel.com/icic/2013/attendees-2013
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Jan Baur (FIZ Karlsruhe), Helmut Berger (max.recall), Daniel Bonniot (ChemAxon), Colm Carroll (Innivatice Medicines Initiatives),Kuramitla Chinnaiah Krishnaveni (Molecular Connections), Wolfie Chritl (Cuteacute), Alex Drijver (ChemAxon), Josef Eiblmaier (ChmeInfo), Ricardo Eito-Brun (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Richard Garner (LexisNexis), Monika Hanelt (Agfa Graphics), Jutta Hausser (EPO), Nicolas Lylyre (Syngenta), Hugh Laverty (IMI), Jane List (Extract Information), David Milward (Linguamatics), Sebastian Radestock (Elsevier), Kalpana Ravi (Philips Electronics), Sumair Riyaz (Dolcera), Uwe Rosemann (German National Library of Science and Technology), Marc Tobias (BGW), Tony Trippe (Patinformatics), Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemsitry), Kim Zwollo (RighDirect).
I look forward to seeing you in Vienna.
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Enjoy the tutorial!
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There are only three weeks to go until the start of the ICIC - The International Conference for the Information Community - meeting in 2013. The meeting is filling fast, so if you intend to come, please get your booking in as soon as possible: http://www.haxel.com/icic/2013/registration
When you attend the ICIC 2013 you will meet colleagues from following companies and organizations: http://www.haxel.com/icic/2013/attendees-2013
ICIC 2013 Speakers:
Jan Baur (FIZ Karlsruhe), Helmut Berger (max.recall), Daniel Bonniot (ChemAxon), Colm Carroll (Innivatice Medicines Initiatives),Kuramitla Chinnaiah Krishnaveni (Molecular Connections), Wolfie Chritl (Cuteacute), Alex Drijver (ChemAxon), Josef Eiblmaier (ChmeInfo), Ricardo Eito-Brun (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Richard Garner (LexisNexis), Monika Hanelt (Agfa Graphics), Jutta Hausser (EPO), Nicolas Lylyre (Syngenta), Hugh Laverty (IMI), Jane List (Extract Information), David Milward (Linguamatics), Sebastian Radestock (Elsevier), Kalpana Ravi (Philips Electronics), Sumair Riyaz (Dolcera), Uwe Rosemann (German National Library of Science and Technology), Marc Tobias (BGW), Tony Trippe (Patinformatics), Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemsitry), Kim Zwollo (RighDirect).
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You can put all of this in practice with EGI Notebooks, Binder and Zenodo. To learn how, see the tutorial slides: https://documents.egi.eu/document/3442
EGI Notebooks is a new service from the EGI e-infrastructure collaboration, providing a user-friendly and highly flexible Jupyter-based hosted environment for researchers to develop and share data analysis and visualisation ‘notebooks’. Notebooks can contain programming codes in various languages, HTML scripts, dynamic visualization and equations as well as images and explanatory text that provide guidance and context for the captured data analysis workflows.
Through the notebooks users can easily share concepts, ideas and working applications, containing the full analytical methodology, connections to data sources, visualizations, and descriptive text to interpret those data. With the Binder ‘extension’ of Jupyter one can turn a Github repository with Jupyter notebooks into an executable environment, making code, visualisation and documentation immediately reproducible and reusable by anyone, anywhere.
Jupyter and Binder are becoming pillars for Open Science.
The tutorial will introduce the open access EGI Notebooks service. The tutorial will go through the main features of the EGI Notebooks service and show how to use it with Binder for Open Science. Participants will experience the system through hands-on exercises written in Python based on real applications from the environmental sciences domain. The integrated use of Notebooks with EGI’s DataHub service will be also demonstrated. Communities or national e-infrastructures who would like to setup a similar service locally will be also informed about how to do this.
Enjoy the tutorial!
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1. Rechenkraft.net –
From Volunteers to Scientists
Citizen Cyberlab Summit, Geneva/Switzerland, Sept. 17th 2015
Dr. Michael H.W. Weber
President, Rechenkraft.net e.V.
Guest Scientist, Botanical Garden of Philipps-University of Marburg / Germany
2. Early 2001: Initial website
with a forum & wiki…
…presenting a complete
collection of all available
distributed computing
projects with detailed
descriptions.
8. ...you could say: initially it was a
bit like being part of some sort of
ELECTRONIC SPORTS LEAGUE
competition which exists mainly
in order to enable underfunded
science projects.
9. ...but then we realized that, for
various reasons, a lot of scientists
were not able to put their
computational project idea into
practice, even if they had the
funds – and that was the birth of
YOYO@HOME:
11. Presentations at Exhibitions & Conferences
• Geiger-Müller counter plus
„Uranglas“
• Quake Catcher Network
sensor
• diverse ARM development
boards
• beamer showing screen
savers from DC projects
12. Among many activities,
participating in an HIV-
combating project as
official partner of the
World AIDS day organizers
in 2013 once again got us
some local press
coverage…
…ultimately leading to the
offering of space in one of
our town‘s buildings:
14. A universal multi-
formfactor mainboard
cluster rack…
…accomodates ATX, µATX, Mini-ITX
Mainboards plus GPUs and also
embedded ARM systems such as the
NVIDIA Jetson Tegra K1 or
Hardkernel‘s ODROIDs.
15. Using our computer network
knowledge…
…within a
few days,
we were
able to
setup free
WLAN in
the local
refugee
camp.
16. Up-to-date ARM development hardware…
…is available in our
Hackspace and can be
accessed via SSH – just
contact us in case you
need access for client
develoment.
• NVIDIA Jetson Tegra K1 (ARM
Cortex-A15, NVIDIA Kepler GPU,
192 CUDA cores)
• ODROID-X2/U2/U3/XU/XU3/XU4
17. ...but wait a minute – if we can
turn other people’s scientific ideas
into BOINC projects, then why
don’t we setup a project entirely
of our own?
Well, that was the birth of
RNA WORLD:
18. RNA World…
…our first own project which
is a bioinformatic platform to
tackle open questions in RNA
biology.
19. ...wasn’t there some sort of glitch?
Well, some of the tasks turned out to
run for a few months generating
results archives which, in compressed
form, yielded files of 50 GB in size.
Once unpacked (which was a trouble
on its own), we were lucky and got
small files – but then again in the
ten’s of thousands!
...so we learned one thing or two
about certain limitations of standard
operating systems.
20. Still a number of groundbreaking
innovations were created as well...
...such as the first public job submission interfaces
available in distributed computing!
21. Setup of a Laboratory…
…to experimentally verify results
generated by the RNA World project… but also to do other interesting things…
22. ...e.g. finding a cure for the
fireblight disease of some plants by
means of natural bacteriophages...
...and the development of a
universal bacteriophage construction
kit potentially applicable even for
human bacterial diseases in a
synthetic biology approach that
involves microfluidics-based genome
engineering!
23. In progress: Fireblight reporter – Online-Portal
• training module to
recognize the
symptoms
• photos & GPS data of
potential detection
sites are uploaded
• images of other
participants are judged
by community
members
• plant material
becomes available
• direct coupling of
information to
governmental agencies
possible
24. In progress: Arnika Mapper – Online-Portal
• training module to
recognize the plant
• photos & GPS data of
potential detection
sites are uploaded
• images of other
participants are judged
by community
members
• plant material for
cultivation becomes
available
25. ...if on top of all this, some
funding would be available...
26. BMBF Citizen Science Strategy 2020…
…we helped to develop this
program over a period of more
than a year.
A few of our
suggestions
• funding should be
accessible to layman
• public Government-
funded maker spaces
in every larger city
• citizen science
interface bureau in
every university