Date
Aug 10, 2015
Attendees
Goals
- Initial discussions to determine what the initial steps are that need to be taken to move the projects as a whole forward.
Transcribed Notes
Plants in Silico - Multi-scale modeling.
- Need to allow models to talk to each other. This will allow higher resolution and accuracy into the overall modeling.
- Different levels of models are (generally)
- Molecule
- Cell
- System
- Ecosystem
- Primary objectives
- Localize heterongeneous models
- Provide data sharing, storage, and management
- Import tools for model integration - Investigate and re-use existing tools where possible
- Create a web interface for access and visualization - Should be intuitive to use, especially for those unfamiliar with the models
- The seed funding is to be used to determine how and where to go with these things. Proof of principle type of situation.
- Immediate users to be targetted
- Marshall-Colon Group
- Shukla Group
- Long/LeBauer Group - Phenomic? Information -> Observation, modelling, prediction
- After a brief BrownDog overview by Kenton, discussions on models as extractors within DAP?
- Available integration points?
- What types of services could be used or needed?
- Other types of functionality? Data management? Curation/publication?
- What is needed from the NCSA end?
- Level of compute resources needed
- Hardware
- Data size
- This is going to be dependent on the model?
- Need to understand the issues with different timescales that the models operate on
- When can things be dynamically coupled and when is that not practical or possible?
- Prioritize the the need for NDS to allow for easy reproducibility/access to existing data so research can be more easily referenced/re-used instead of re-created.
- Need to define the functional requirements. This is the layer between the high-level roadmap and the low-level implementation details.
- What is the data that is to be converted
- What is to be built into the datasets
- What is to be shared
- What services are needed and potentially wanted in the future
- What further analysis would users potentially need or want to perform
- Try to get early engagement between the application engineers and the scientists in order to facilitate integration and feedback.
Action Items
- The scientists are going back to hash out some more of the high-level roadmap details, and then will integrate with Unknown User (mfelarca) as they hit a point where discussions can move on to functional requirement definition.