The NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment and the ABoVE Science Cloud: Accelerating Science with Cloud Technologies

Ellen Salmon, NCCS, NASA GSFC Code 606.2, ellen.salmon@nasa.gov
Laura E. Carriere, NASA GSFC/CSRA, laura.carriere@nasa.gov
James Jim Shute, NASA GSFC/CSRA, james.k.shute@nasa.gov
Scott Sinno, NASA GSFC/PTP, scott.sinno@nasa.gov
Ben Bledsoe, NASA GSFC/PTP, benjamin.c.bledsoe@nasa.gov
Elizabeth E Hoy, NASA GSFC / Global Science and Technology, Inc., elizabeth.hoy@nasa.gov
Peter Griffith, NASA GSFC / SSAI, peter.c.griffith@nasa.gov
John Thompson, NASA GSFC/PTP, john.h.thompson@nasa.gov
Garrison Vaughan, NASA GSFC/ITC, garrison.r.vaughan@nasa.gov
Julien Peters, NASA GSFC/PTP, julien.b.peters@nasa.gov
Daniel Duffy, NASA GSFC, daniel.q.duffy@nasa.gov (Presenter)

The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS – https://www.nccs.nasa.gov/) has partnered with the NASA Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Office (CCEO) to provide a high performance science cloud to accelerate the pace of science for the ABoVE field campaign. Resources from the Advanced Data Analytics Platform (ADAPT – https://www.nccs.nasa.gov/services/adapt) have been reserved to create the ABoVE Science Cloud (ASC). The ASC combines high performance computing, storage, and purpose built virtual environments to create an environment specifically designed for the analysis of big data. Through this architecture, the ASC provides an agile environment that contributes to data integration, geospatial product generation, modeling, data stewardship and long-term data preservation by aiding researchers through the entire process of the data lifecycle. The ASC can provide one scientist with hundreds of virtual machines custom-configured to accelerate computation and visualization. It also serves as a Geographical Information System proximate to petascale high-resolution imagery. Furthermore, by using the ABoVE Science Cloud as a shared and centralized resource, researchers reduce costs for their proposed work, making proposed research more competitive. This poster will provide an overview of the ASC capabilities, tools and data sets available, and show examples of how the ASC is being used to meet the needs of the ABoVE campaign. In addition, this presentation will provide a demonstration for how to log into the system, access data, and run applications.

Poster Location ID: 108

Session Assigned: Crosscutting