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Solar-B Global DataGrid21st September 2006UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2006
RAL MSSL
Tim Folkes Elizabeth Auden
Jens Jensen Paul Lamb
Matthew Wild Matthew Whillock
Len Culhane
Elizabeth Auden 21 September 2006 e-Science AHM 2006
Overview
The Solar-B mission will be launched tomorrow, Friday 22 September 2006, from the Uchinoura Space Center in Japan.
Mission duration: 3 years nominal, +10 years lifetime expected
Scientists and software engineers at MSSL and RAL have designed the Solar-B global data grid to provide mission data to solar research communities in the UK and abroad.
• Solar-B science objectives• Data transfer and processing• Data storage• User access to data• Data security
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Solar-B Mission Overview
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EIS - MSSL/NRL EUV Imaging SpectrometerSOT - ISAS/NAOJ Solar Optical TelescopeXRT - SAO/ISAS X-ray TelescopeFPP - Lockheed/NAOJ Focal Plane Package
Solar-B Science
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Key Science Questions
1. How is the solar corona heated? Are active regions heated in a different way to the quiet Sun?
2. What causes solar flares and coronal mass ejections?
3. How is energy transferred in the quiet Sun? How are solar magnetic fields affected?
Solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections can have a profound affect on the Earth’s magnetosphere. A geomagnetic storm in 1989 triggered a blackout of the Hydro Quebec power system.
Transfer of Solar-B Data to ADS
Solar-B data transferred via GridFTP from ISAS and MSSL to an NFS mounted disk at ADS.
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Data Migration FacilityManages NFS area
• Produced by SGI• User transparent file
migration• Licence for 500Tbytes
storage
• Backend: STK SL8500– 10,000 tape slots
– STK 9940B drives (200GB 30MB/sec)
– STK T10000 drives (500GB 120MB/sec)
ADS RAL
ISAS Japan
MSSL processing
Satellite data LL data
LL data
HL data
HL
LL
ADS Data Storage
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DMF STK SL8500 robot
The DMF monitors the Solar-B NFS area and removes disk copies of data to keep free space at required level.
Small files have primary copy on disk. (Speeds up read/writes.)
ADS
InterfaceNFS
Tape
Firesafe
Larger files have primary copy on tape.All files have secondary copy
on tape. These are periodically moved to the firesafe.
Hardware• Based on Altix 350• Numaflex architecture• 40 Tbytes raid disk Network• Local server: 1Gbit network• Part of 10Gbit back-bone• Coming soon: SJ5 10Gbit link
User Access to Solar-B Data
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Instrument Data
SOT: Solar Optical TelescopeMagnetic field imagesOptical imagesMagnetic field velocity
measurements
XRT: X-Ray TelescopeX-ray coronal images
EIS: EUV Imaging SpectrometerCoronal line strengths and profiles Plasma diagnostics
DMF
Users access data as URLs through the AstroGrid workbench, STAP web services, browsers, or wget.
Files via URLs and DMF system at RAL’s UKSSDC
Accessing Solar-B data through AstroGrid
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MySQL
AstroGrid DSA
FITS keywords,Data URLs
DSA: DataSet AccessADQL to SQL
AstroGrid STAP service
INPUT: ADQL queries
STAP: Simple TimeAccess Protocol
OUTPUT: FITS keywords, URLs
INPUT: start / stop dates
OUTPUT: URLs
AstroGrid workbench
AstroGrid HelioScope,
STAP enabled tools
ADS Web-visiblefile system
AstroGRID PLASTIC tools, Solar-B website, wget, browser
INPUT: URLs
OUTPUT: Solar-B files
AstroGrid User Components
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HelioScope: solar data results from STAP services.
AstroGrid workbench: STAP service access through HelioScope, DSA access through the Task Launcher.
Task Launcher: locate DSAs, submit ADQL queries
Workbench:
http://www2.astrogrid.org/desktop/index
STAP: Simple Time Access Protocolhttp://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/s.dalla/astrogrid/strap.html
DSA: DataSet Access
http://www.astrogrid.org/maven/docs/HEAD/pal/index.html
ADQL: Astronomical Data Query Language
http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/ADQL.html
Mission Data Flow
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Solar-B Studies / Observation Planning
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• Study Proposal– All study proposals are tested on the Flight Spare model
before acceptance into the master Study Database– The Study Database contains information about the science
(target, pointing, rationale) as well as meta-data (author, joint ops id, etc)
• Database Distribution– This is done using the automatic Solarsoft update mechanism
through Goddard Space Flight Centre• Daily Planning
– Performed at ISAS using the Study Database– Studies are entered into the Timeline (As-planned) Database
FITS File Reformatting
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• Fits Reformatting (1)– Level-0 performed at ISAS– Accesses As-Planned Database– Populates As-Run Database– Transfers files to ADS and ISAS web system– Accesses other instruments’ Fits files and transfers them to the
ADS for storage• Fits Reformatting (2)
– EIS Level-0 Fits files are used to generate Level-2 Fits files at MSSL
– Updates the data catalogue– Transfers Level-2 Fits files back to the ADS
Data Security
GridFTP used for file transfers
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ADS(RAL)
ADS(RAL)
ADS(RAL)
GridFTP
GridFTP
GridFTP
HTTP USERS
GRIDFTP
• Secure transfers
• 3rd party transfers
• Good performance
• Certificates from UK e-Science CA and AIST (Japan)
STORAGE
• 10 TB per year
• 30 TB over nominal 3 year duration of mission
GridFTP: Clients / hosts authenticate with X509 certificates
Conclusions
• Solar-B launch tomorrow. 22 September 2006
• Data transferred via GridFTP to ADS at RAL
• ADS facility uses DMF to manage files on disk and tape
• Data searchable through AstroGrid DSA and STAP web service
• Solar community accesses data through AstroGrid workbench, HelioScope or a web browser
LINKS:
AstroGrid: http://www.astrogrid.org
Solar-B countdown: http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_solar/
Elizabeth Auden 21 September 2006 e-Science AHM 2006
Questions?