http://europlanet-ri.eu
JRA 3 // WP 24
European Modelling & Data Analysis
Facility (EMDAF)
development of a distributed computational and data
analysis service for the European planetary science
Coordinator:
M.L.Khodachenko
(IWF-ÖAW, Graz, Austria)
Deputy:
S. Miller (UCL, London, UK)
Task Leaders: R. Stöckler, F. Topf (IWF-ÖAW, Graz, Austria)
EC Grant agreement n° 228319
JRA-3 / EMDAF
http://europlanet-jra3.oeaw.ac.at
● Main Strategic Goal :
Creation of a distributed and coordinated RI,
based on the existing in Europe computational modelling and data
analysis centres, which will provide the scientific community with the
dedicated services in the fields of their computational & data analysis
expertise.
EMDAF will provide a set demonstrators and operational tests of
interconnected Computational Modelling & multi-disciplinary
Data Analysis service in key areas of European Planetary Science.
1)
Space weather, incl. magnetospheric & atmospheric aspects;
2)
Mars in time & space;
3)
Environment of airless bodies, Mercury & Moon;
4)
Comets.
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EMDAF will:
 Develop web-based tools for planetary scientists to communicate with
modelling and data analysis experts;
 Produce an Interactive Catalogue of planetary models & data analysis tools;
 Develop a Distributed Numerical Modelling Laboratory, to allow scientists
to specify inputs for models to be run “on demand”, including coordinated,
interconnected, multi-disciplinary simulations;
 Develop a Distributed Data Analysis Laboratory with services “on demand”;
 Enable the codes involved with the DNML and DDAL to run on HPC
facilities, in cooperation with the European HPC Grid DEISA-2;
 Perform further elaboration of data analysis and modelling methods for
their coodinated use by the scientific community.
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● Structure of the activity: Tasks / Sub-divisions
Task#1
Task#2
Coordination and
Management
Interactive Catalogue
of Planetary Models &
Data Analysis Tools
(ICPM&DAT)
Task#3
Task#1: Management of EMDAF (JRA3)
Task#3:
Task#4:
DNML
DDAL
Distributed Numerical
Modelling Laboratory
(DNML)
Task#4
Distributed Data Analysis
Laboratory (DDAL)
Task#5
Enabling High Performance
& Grid Computing Architectures, Codes Standardization
Task#5:
HPC resources
and standatds
Task#2:
ICPM&DAT
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● Work package time line:
Milestones
and
12
0
Deliverables
24
36
48
Web page
T1
Coordination
Interactive Catalog
T2
Distributed Num.Modeling Lab.
T3
Distributed Data Analysis Lab.
T4
Enabling HPC & Codes Stand.
T5
Annual reports
T1
M24.1.1
M24.1.1
M24.3.1
D24.3.1
M24.1.2
D24.1.2
M24.2.1
D24.2.1
M24.4.1
D24.4.1
M24.2.2
D24.2.2
M24.1.3
M24.1.3
M24.5.1
D24.5.1
M24.4.2 D24.1.3
D24.1.3
D24.4.2
M24.5.2
Delivery
to IDIS
M24.3.2
D24.3.2
M24.4.2
D24.4.2
M24.5.3
D24.5.2
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Report Period 1
JRA3/EMDAF RP1
What has been done so far:
Maybe also useful for IDIS
• JRA3 EMDAF – Webpage
• TWiki Collaboration Platform
• CITRIX GoToMeeting
• JRA3 Kick-Off Meeting
• JRA3 Splinter Meeting EPSC09
• JRA3 EMDAF – Telecons
• NA3 – Public Outreach
•Catalogue Prototype
• User Requirement Document
• (Online) Questionnaire, Query
and Associates
• Online Feedback Form
• Dissemination 12 Lectures
• Budget
Meeting
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Webpage
http://europlanet-jra3.oeaw.ac.at
JRA3 Webpage:
• Based
on a Design
provided by the
project management
(PM5).
• IWF
Graz Team
provided this Design
as Template for free
available Typo3 CMS
(PM6).
• Contains all News &
Events,
general
information
and
references to the
other systems used
within EMDAF.
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Development Wiki (Twiki)
http://amda-idis.oeaw.ac.at/twiki/bin/view/EuroPlaNet/WebHome
TWiki is:
•A
structured Wiki typically
used to run as:
• Collaboration platform
• Document management
system
• Knowledge base
• Team portal.
• The
main purpose of this
tool within EuroPlaNet:
• To
trace the complete
development process of
the activities
• For information exchange over involved teams
• Future participants and
easier reporting.
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Development Wiki (Twiki)
● Content of the TWiki system:
♦ Directly available over top-menu item TWiki at the Plasma Node homepage.
Featured Content: (so far)
♦ IWF Tasks for NA1:
♦ NA1 web-page action items: To-do-list for future content at the homepage.
♦ NA1 Matrix User Requirements: NA1 related requirements for the ground-based
observatories matrix.
♦ IWF Tasks for JRA3:
♦ EMDAF Development: Information about the activity progress in general.
♦ EMDAF Meetings: All relevant meetings including related documents.
♦ EMDAF User Requirements: Modeling Catalogue requirements.
♦ EMDAF Kick-off Action items: Action items after Kick-off meeting in March.
♦ EMDAF Web-page Action items: To-do-list for content at the homepage.
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Development Wiki (Twiki)
● Content of the TWiki system: (contd.)
♦ IWF Tasks for JRA4:
♦ Plasma Node development: Telecons, Meetings, homepage process.
♦ General Resource Inventory: Development information about the IDIS Inventory of
resources.
♦ Science Cases: Notes on the evolution of Science Cases in FP6/FP7.
♦ AMDA-IDIS Web service: Development information and Documentation.
♦ General IDIS Development: Policies and Responsibilities.
♦ General EuroPlaNet Tasks:
♦ Workshop/Meeting material for all activities.
♦ FP7 official document templates.
♦ FP7, IWF and Austrian Academy Logo.
♦ Communication tools: Relevant Information for the “GoToMeeting” telecon-tool
♦ Webpage template: Development documentation of the EuroPlaNet-RI web-design
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Communication Tools
Communication Tool: GoToMeeting
Introduction and Motivation:
The main idea is to improve communication between participants of a specific activity. The
traditional approach over landlines seems to be not “up-to-date” and doesn’t offer interactive
mechanisms to improve efficiency.
♦ General Requirements: (so far)
♦ Phone Calls over Internet and/or Landlines.
♦ Special abilities like: Online presentations, Video Conferencing or Documents
Sharing.
♦ Most efficient / affordable.
♦ Long lasting software.
♦ Good costumer support.
♦ 10-15 attendees.
♦ Easy installable and configurable software
♦ A streamlined user-interface
♦ Available for Windows/Linux and Mac.
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Communication Tool: GoToMeeting
Features: CITRIX GoToMeeting (corporate)
♦ Collaboration Tools:
♦ Sharing: Desktop, selected applications and documents.
♦ One-Click meetings: Instant meetings over homepage with MEET-NOW.
♦ Multiple Presenters: Give control to your or every participants desktop.
♦ Drawing Tools: Draw, highlight or point items on the screen.
♦ Communication Tools: (25 attendees)
♦ Text chat: With all participant simultaneously or a specific attendant.
♦ Integrated Free Audio-conferencing with headset over internet and/or
♦ Teleconferencing via a specific phone number given at the invitation. (local)
♦ Web Service API: Integrate the GoToMeeting functionality directly at websites.
♦ Other:
♦ Quick, easy and secure administration over SSL protected Web Site.
♦ Recording of the Meeting.
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Kick Off Meeting
● JRA3/EMDAF Kick Off Meeting:
June 16 -17, 2009; IWF-Graz, Austria.
http://amda-idis.oeaw.ac.at/twiki/bin/view/EuroPlaNet/JRA3/EmdafMeetings
 16 people attended this meeting and held 18 presentations about the JRA3/EMDAF
project in general, its tasks, suitable computational models and data analysis tools,
CINECA and DEISA high performance computing, etc. all online available at JRA3-TWiki.
 Decision to establish a working group to conduct a user requirement document/study.
 Agreement with the need of a web conferencing tool to ease the way of communication
within the project.
 Decision to have topical clusters in T3/DNML and selection of an code for trial access at
CINECA as part of T5/HPC.
 A first database prototype to store and access computational model data has been
presented by Daniel Heynderickx.
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Splinter Meeting
● JRA3/EMDAF Splinter Meeting:
September 14, 2009; Kongresshotel Potsdam, Germany.
http://amda-idis.oeaw.ac.at/twiki/bin/view/EuroPlaNet/JRA3/EmdafMeetings
 8 speakers 3 posters this meeting and held 3 presentations about the JRA3/EMDAF
project in general, and 5 presentations about suitable computational models and data
analysis tools, all presentation slides available online at JRA3-TWiki.
 A User Requirement Document Query to clarify fundamental questions about the
EMDAF catalogue was prepared and distributed.
 A JRA3 Poster and Leaflet were prepared and hung out at the Kongresshotel
 New links to users and providers were established.
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Teleconferences
● To enhance the efficiency of performing of Task 2, a working group
has been created:
♦ UCL
♦ IWF-Graz
♦ CNRS/UJF
♦ FMI
♦ DHConsultancy.
Two coordinating tele(web)-conferences of URD group:
 On 25.11.2009 the JRA3-EMDAF teleconference with participants of UCL, CNRS/UJF,
FMI, DHConsultancy agreed to the creation of a first User Requirement Document
DRAFT done by IWF-Graz based on the IDIS URD.
http://amda-idis.oeaw.ac.at/twiki/bin/view/EuroPlaNet/JRA3/EmdafUserRequirements
 On 11.12.2009 a Teleconference reviewed the JRA3-EMDAF User Requirement
Document DRAFT with participants of UCL, CNRS/UJF, FMI and DHConsultancy. A
decision was made to concentrate on reviewing and development of the JRA3-EMDAF
Catalogue Internal Trial Version available online at
http://www.spaceweatherservices.com/catalogue/index.php
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Questionnaire
● JRA3 Questionnaire:
IWF conducted a short circular email to many potentially interested people from former
Europlanet Projects.
List of parameters:
• Name
• Email
• Institute and Adress
• Telephone
• Provider and/or User of
• Computational models
• Data analysis tools
• Area(s) of Application
• Short description
• Textual description
• Type of code
• Background algorithm
• Required resource
• Generality
=> Matrix of Associates
JRA-3 / EMDAF
EPSC09 Query
A User Requirement
Document Query
to clarify fundamental
questions about the
EMDAF catalogue.
This was prepared and
distributed at EPSC’09.
JRA-3 / EMDAF
Online Questionnaire
● JRA3 Online Questionnaire:
An Online Questionnaire
has been established and
integrated in the JRA3EMDAF webpage in
November 2009.
JRA-3 / EMDAF
User Requirement Document
● JRA3 User Requirement Document:
First User Requirement Document DRAFT done by IWFGraz and based on the IDIS URD.
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Catalogue Prototype
● JRA3 Catalogue Prototype:
http://www.spaceweatherservices.com/catalogue/
• User Registration
• Add Entries
• Edit Entries (to be implemented)
• Text search field (to be implemented)
• Browse Entries
Via keywords
 Via Category
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Catalogue Prototype
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Catalogue Prototype
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Catalogue Prototype
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Associates
● JRA3 Associates Matrix:

The Goal is to establish a list of reliable providers and users of our catalogue and to involve
them as far as possible into the process of building it. We need them to:
 Find out what models and tools the participants like to provide.
 Find out what are the most wanted category groups (Models, DA Tools) and services.

Snapshot of the Associates Matrix:
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Online Feedback Forum
● JRA3 Online Feedback Form:
An Online
Feedback Section
has been added to
the JRA3-EMDAF
webpage in
November 2009. It
enables commenting
and giving feedback
on our project.
JRA-3 / EMDAF
Dissamination
● Following several oral presentations or lectures were given
by members of the JRA3:

André, N., Jacquey, C., Cecconi, B., Budnik, E., Hitier, R., Pallier, E., Génot, V.,
Gangloff, M., Topf, F., Rucker, H.O., Khodachenko, M.L., Baumjohann, W., Lamy, L.,
Connecting the CDPP/AMDA service and IVOA tools, A Science Case: The HST auroral
campaign observations of Jupiter and Saturn, PV 2009, Dec. 2009, Madrid, Spain (oral).

Khodachenko, M.L., Miller, S., Stöckler, R., Topf, F., JRA 3 // WP 24 European Modelling
& Data Analysis Facility (EMDAF) - development of a distributed computational and data
analysis service for the European planetary science, European Planetary Science
Congress, EPSC2009, Potsdam, Germany, Sept. 2009, (oral).
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Stöckler, R., Khodachenko, M.L., Topf, F., Miller, S., Heynderickx, D., Lilensten, J.,
Creation of Interactive Catalogue of Planetary Models & Data Analysis Tools
(ICPM&DAT), European Planetary Science Congress, EPSC2009, Potsdam, Germany,
Sept. 2009, (oral).
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Topf, F., Khodachenko, M.L., Stöckler, R., Andre, N., Gangloff, M., Jacquey, C.,
JRA3/EMDAF: Its cooperation and common tasks with IDIS (JRA4 / WP 25: Integrated
and Distributed Information Service), European Planetary Science Congress,
EPSC2009, Potsdam, Germany, Sept. 2009, (oral).
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Dissamination
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André, N., Cecconi, B., Budnik, E., Pallier, E., Gangloff, M., Hitier, R., Jacquey, C., Génot,
V., Dériot, F., Heulet, D., Topf, F., Rucker, H., Khodachenko, M.L., Baumjohann, W.,
Hansen K.C., Blanc, M., Gombosi, T., CDPP/AMDA, an interoperable web-based service
usable for planetary plasma data exploitation and comparative studies: Application to the
Saturnian environment and to the MAPSKP data, “Magnetospheres of the outer planets”
Conference, July, 2009, Köln, Germany (oral).
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Khodachenko, M.L., Miller, S., Topf, F., Stöckler, R., Europlanet-RI / JRA3 / EMDAF
general overview, JRA3/EMDAF kick-off meeting, Jun. 2009, IWF Graz, Austria, (oral).
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Khodachenko, M.L., Kislyakov, A.G., Advanced data analysis tools for JRA3/EMDAF,
JRA3/EMDAF kick-off meeting, Jun. 2009, IWF Graz, Austria, (oral).
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Stöckler, R., Khodachenko, M.L., Topf, F., EMDAF Interactive Catalogue, JRA3/EMDAF
kick-off meeting, Jun. 2009, IWF Graz, Austria, (oral).
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Topf, F., Stöckler, R., Khodachenko, M.L., EMDAF webpage, communication tools and
TWiki, JRA3/EMDAF kick-off meeting, Jun. 2009, IWF Graz, Austria, (oral).
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Dissamination
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André, N., Jacquey, C., Fedorov, M.A., Budnik, E., Génot, V., Ferrier, C., Mazelle, C.,
Cecconi, B., Penou, E., Zhang, T., Rucker, H., Khodachenko, M.L., Lammer, H., Volwerk, M.,
Nakamura, R., Topf, F., Sauvaud, J.-A., Barabash, S., Lundin, R., Comparative Automated
Multi-Dataset Analysis of the Martian and Venusian time-variable plasma environments, 43-th
ESLAB Symposium “Comparative Planetology: Mars, Venus and the Earth”, May 11-15,
2009, ESTEC/ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands (oral).

André, N., Topf, F., Budnik, E., Gangloff, M., Hitier, R., Zhang, T., Fedorov, M.A., Jacquey, C.,
Rucker, H.O., Génot, V., Cecconi, B., Khodachenko, M.L., Mazelle, C., Penou, E., Sauvaud,
J.-A., Barabash, S., Lundin, R., An interoperable web-based service offered through the
EuroPlaNet/IDIS Plasma Node usable for planetary plasma data exploitation and
comparative studies: Application to the Martian and Venusian environments, 43-th ESLAB
Symposium “Comparative Planetology: Mars, Venus and the Earth”, May 11-15, 2009,
ESTEC/ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands (oral).

Khodachenko, M.L., Rucker, H.O., EC FP7 Project “Europlanet-RI” – a new research
infrastructure for planetary science, Space Research Institute (IWF), Graz, Apr. 2009
(lecture).
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Khodachenko, M.L., Miller, S., European Modelling and Data Analysis Facility (EMDAF) as
JRA-3 in the Europlanet RI FP7 project, Europlanet RI Project Management Committee,
Feb.23-24, 2009, Paris, France (oral).
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● European/International Perspectives:
EMDAF within EUROPLANET FP7 will gain and foster the synergies of coordinated and coherent use of available computational
modelling and data analysis RIs (computational resources and
services, data bases).
It will serve as a prototype of a new kind of pan-European international Research Infrastructure which will provide the scientific
community with the dedicated services in the field of computational modelling and data analysis.