GEON: Networking Indian Geoscience Community through iGEON

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GEONNetworking Indian Geoscience Community
through iGEON

• Arun Agarwal
• Professor and Head
• Department of Computer and Information Sciences
• And
• Professor-in-Charge
• Centre for Modelling Simulation and Design
• UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD, INDIA
• aruncs_at_uohyd.ernet.in
• September 27, 2007

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Scheme of Presentation

• How it all started?
• Networking with Stakeholders/Partners- A First
  Step, How?
• Datasets Where do we get these?
• How are these acquired?
• Where are we now?
• Where do we go from here?

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How it all started?

• Background
• PRAGMA

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How it all started?

• Background
• PRAGMA
• Is all about networking PEOPLE with common
  goal/mission.
• PRAGMA has been a great model and needs to be
  emulated. Has helped weaken barriers between
  different research group across different
  continents and allowed people to trust and
  collaborate rather than compete.

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How it all started?

• Background
• PRAGMA
• Building Blocks
• GEON

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GEON

• The Geosciences Network (GEON) project is a
  collaboration among a dozen PI institutions and a
  number of other partner projects, institutions,
  and agencies, in USA, to develop
  cyberinfrastructure in support of an environment
  for integrative geoscience research. GEON is
  funded by the NSF Information Technology Research
  (ITR) program.

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GEON

• The Geosciences Network (GEON) project is a
  collaboration among a dozen PI institutions and a
  number of other partner projects, institutions,
  and agencies, in USA, to develop
  cyberinfrastructure in support of an environment
  for integrative geoscience research. GEON is
  funded by the NSF Information Technology Research
  (ITR) program.

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GEON Workshop in India

• GEON 2005, was conducted from October 24-27 at
  the University of Hyderabad, immediately after
  PRAGMA 9. Resource people
• Chaitan Baru
• Dogan Seber
• Sandeep Chandra
• Ashraf Memon
• Mark Gahegan
• Boyan Brodaric
• Some local experts

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Main Outcomes

• An idea is born Have an International presence
  of GEON
• Will allow Active Groups to be networked
• Entry point for registering/accessing datasets
  and tools
• Furthering Collaboration
• Data from regions that have similar age and
  geology as regions in India will be of great
  interest for comparative studies.
• etc

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iGEON

• iGEON is international initiative of GEON.
• International sites (in order of their
  establishment) are
• CMSD(Hyderabad, India),
• AIST(Japan),
• CNIC(Beijing, China),
• Moscow.

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iGEON-India

• is now a Knowledge, Research and Development
  Networked Indo-US Centre funded by the Indo-US
  Science and Technology Forum, New Delhi, India.
• Coordinated by University of Hyderabad, SDSC

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INDO - US Strategic Partnership
Energy Dialogue Civil Nuclear Energy, Oil Gas,
Coal, Energy Efficiency, New Renewable
Technologies, FutureGen
Space Cooperation Satellite Navigation and
Launch, Astronaut Training, Global Positioning
System, Space Exploration
Information and Communication Technologies Cyber
Security Forum, IT Enabled Services, Next
Generation Comm-unication Technologies,
E-commerce
Knowledge Initiative in Agriculture Research,
Education, Services Commercial Linkages
Global Safety and Security Counter terrorism,
Early Warning Systems, Disaster Mitigation and
Response
Health Sciences HIV/AIDS, Anti-retroviral Drug
Development, Joint Clinical Trail Research, Basic
RD Towards Product Development
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INDO - US Strategic Partnership
Energy Dialogue Civil Nuclear Energy, Oil Gas,
Coal, Energy Efficiency, New Renewable
Technologies, FutureGen
Space Cooperation Satellite Navigation and
Launch, Astronaut Training, Global Positioning
System, Space Exploration
Information and Communication Technologies Cyber
Security Forum, IT Enabled Services, Next
Generation Comm-unication Technologies,
E-commerce
Knowledge Initiative in Agriculture Research,
Education, Services Commercial Linkages
Global Safety and Security Counter terrorism,
Early Warning Systems, Disaster Mitigation and
Response
Health Sciences HIV/AIDS, Anti-retroviral Drug
Development, Joint Clinical Trail Research, Basic
RD Towards Product Development
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INDO - US Strategic Partnership
Energy Dialogue Civil Nuclear Energy, Oil Gas,
Coal, Energy Efficiency, New Renewable
Technologies, FutureGen
Space Cooperation Satellite Navigation and
Launch, Astronaut Training, Global Positioning
System, Space Exploration
Information and Communication Technologies Cyber
Security Forum, IT Enabled Services, Next
Generation Comm-unication Technologies,
E-commerce
Knowledge Initiative in Agriculture Research,
Education, Services Commercial Linkages
Global Safety and Security Counter terrorism,
Early Warning Systems, Disaster Mitigation and
Response
Health Sciences HIV/AIDS, Anti-retroviral Drug
Development, Joint Clinical Trail Research, Basic
RD Towards Product Development
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Why Hyderabad as a iGEON-India Node?

• Hyderabad is a home of a chain of research labs
  and educational institutions that have special
  strengths in the areas of interest to the
  proposed knowledge networked center,
• National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI)
  National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) Geological
  Survey of India (GSI) Central Ground Water Board
  (CGWB) Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
  (IICT) Atomic Minerals Directorate Indian
  National Center for Ocean Information Services
  (INCOIS) etc.

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Why Hyderabad as a iGEON-India Node?

• Hyderabad is a home of a chain of research labs
  and educational institutions that have special
  strengths in the areas of interest to the
  proposed knowledge networked center,
• National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI)
  National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) Geological
  Survey of India (GSI) Central Ground Water Board
  (CGWB) Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
  (IICT) Atomic Minerals Directorate Indian
  National Center for Ocean Information Services
  (INCOIS) etc.
• Most important, Hyderabad city has now emerged as
  one of the vibrant Knowledge Parks in the
  country, driven by well-trained scientific
  personnel.

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Networking with Stakeholders/Partners
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Networking with Stakeholders/Partners, First
Step, How?
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iGEON-India Workshop 2007

• iGEON workshop held between August 3rd to 8th,
  2007, in Hyderabad.
• Bring together Researchers (both Computer
  Scientists and Geo), Student Scholars,
  Application Users
• Resource persons
• SDSC
• UoH
• Institutes like NRSA, NGRI, INCOIS, NMDC, AMD etc

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Major Observations

• Heterogeneity is the hallmark of the workshop
  Bringing Computer Scientists, Geoscientists
  together and making them talk.
• Need to deal with specific application, field
  related problems
• We cannot have single Universal portal ever.
• Has to be driven by the contributors.
• Vast availability of datasets There is
  willingness to share data. Value based processing
  can be done by researchers, scientists etc.

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• Agencies to upload their apps, tools and
  algorithms This should be possible, except for
  anything that is patented.
• Provide a forum for development of standards in a
  number of areas E.g. metadata, data formats,
  digitization of paper maps etc.

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• Survey the kind of datasets to be submitted and
  served from the iGEON-India portal Including
  services that can be made available.
• Next iGEON-India Workshop Can possibly be
  collocated with Geological Society of India
  annual meeting. Showcasing real applications

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• Well knit community building to continue
  Linkages/partnership with stake holders. As part
  of the this effort it was decided to establish
  iGEON-India PoPs at University of Pune and
  Adikavi Nanayya University, Rajamundary as
  phase-I of networking (Urban vs Rural).

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iGEON-India PoPs

• The iGEON-India PoP node will provide
  capabilities to
• develop and deploy services and serve datasets
  for the users at their site and for the broader
  iGEON community,
• help the partner site integrate local department
  or campus resources, and
• provide resources for system-level components,
  e.g. for data caching, monitoring, etc.

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Datasets, Tools, Services
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Datasets Where do we get these?
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Major Sources of Data
Institution Resource
Survey of India (SOI) Topographical maps, geodetic trig. And levelling data, GPS data, tidal data, repetitive geodetic geophysical data
Geological Survey of India (GSI) Geological maps on various scales, geological, seismic, gravity geomagnetic data
National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) Satellite imageries, land use and waste land maps on small scales
Forest Survey of India (FSI) Forest maps and data of Indian forests
Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) Hydrology maps
National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning (NBSSLUP) Soil maps and land use data

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Major Sources of Data
Institution Resource
National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO) Thematic data in the form of maps and atlases
Ministry of Environment Forests (MoEF) Coastal land use maps
Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) Meteorological and seismic data
NGRI National Hydrographic Department (NHD) Seismological data, Aero-geophysical, gravity Naval charts
Ministry of Earth Sciences(INCOIS) Oceanic data, Disaster Management data
Data from State Governments Disaster Management data etc

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How are these acquired?
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Earth Observation Satellite Missions from India
INSAT-2E (1999)
IRS-1D (1997)
IRS-1C (1995)
KALPANA-1 (2002)
Resourcesat-1 (2003)
IRS-P3 (1996)
INSAT-3A (2003)
Oceansat-1 (1999)
INSAT-3D (2008)
RISAT-1 (2008)
CARTOSAT-1 (2005)
Oceansat-2 (2008)
MEGHA- TROPIQUES (2008)
CARTOSAT-2 (2007)
Resourcesat-2 (2009)
MET
LAND ( Water)
OCEAN
CARTO
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ERS
Jason
Radarsat
TOPEX
TRMM
Radar Imaging Satellite
Ocean Observations through Satellites
NOAA (AVHRR)
Oceansat- 2
Megha Tropiques
IRS-1C/D
IRS-P4 OCM, MSMR
INSAT Series
IRS P5/P6

Radiometer (VIS-TIR)
Radiometer (VIS, NIR)
Radiometer (MW)
Altimeter
Scatterometer
SAR

• Sea Surface
• Temperature
• (SST)

• Ocean
• Colour
• Coastal
• Process

• Wind
• Speed
• SST
• Sea Ice
• Extent

• Wave Ht.
• Sea Level
• Sea Ice
• Elevation

• Surface
• Wind
• Vector

• Wave
• Spectrum
• Sediment

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Remote Sensing Satellite Capabilities
Wide field imaging at very short intervals NOAA, MODIS, AWiFS (IRS-P6).
Parameter retrieval on a wide field basis at very short intervals for sea-state, weather and ocean parameters with reasonable accuracy MODIS, AVHRR, TRMM, NPOESS OCM (IRS-P4),.
All weather imaging and parameter retrieval RADARSAT, ERS, ENVISAT, RISAT (India)
Medium resolution imaging at intervals from 5 to 25 days LANDSAT, IRS 1 C/D/P6
High resolution imaging at intervals of 5 to 25 days IKONOS, QUICKBIRD CARTOSAT-1/2.
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Remote Sensing Missions- Currently (60) Future
(100)
IRS series (India) IRS-1A, 1B, 1C, P3,1D, P5
and P6 SPOT and Landsat series SPOT - lead
agency CNES Landsat satellites -lead agency
USGS CBERS series Joint mission of China
and Brazil KOMPSAT series Korean missions ERS
Envisat series ESA RADARSAT series RSI
Geostationary meteorological satellites USA
(GOES series) Europe (METEOSAT series) Japan
(GMS series) India (INSAT, G-Sat Series) China
(FY series) Russia (GOMS series)
DMSP series US-DoD NOAA polar orbiters KLM
Series NASAs EOS missionsTerra, Aqua and Aura
missions, etc. TOPEX/POSEIDON JASON series

• FUTURE MISSIONS 100 by 2020
• Gravity and magnetic field studies
• Polar ice cap studies
• Cloud properties and climate links
• Operational meteorology Atmospheric studies
• Radiation budget
• Ocean observations
• Land surface observations
• Hyperspectral observations

Crustal motion gravitational field series
Diademe Starlette series (CNES) LAGEOS
series (NASA ASI) CHAMP (DLR) GRACE (NASA)
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Ocean Observing Systems In-situ
Drifting Buoys
XBT
Current Meter Arrays
Argo Floats
Moored Buoys
Research Vessels
NIO/INCOIS
NIOT
INCOIS/NIOT
NIO/INCOIS
NIO/INCOIS
NCAOR/CMLRE
Tide Gauges
BPRs
Coastal Radars
Seismic Network
Gliders
IMD
SOI/NIOT
NIOT
NIOT
INCOIS
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Earth Observation Satellite Constellation
contributing to national imperative needs in
India

• Natural Resources Data base
• Land use/Land Cover Wastelands
• Geomorphology Soils
• Glaciers, snow melt run-off
• Forest Cover.
• Agricultural Crop Inventory
• Watershed development planning and monitoring
• Irrigated Command Area Monitoring
• Potential Ground Water Zones
• Potential Fishing Zones
• Urban /Infrastructure planning
• Biodiversity at Landscape level

• Spatial Resolution of 1 km to lt1 metre
• Polar Sunsynchronous Orbits and GSO
• (Repetivity of 22 days to every 30 minutes)
• Receiving Global data in India and 20 IRS ground
  Stations abroad

9. Spatial Data base Space-based Information
and Decision support Systems for Disaster
Management Support
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Ocean Observation, Information and Services

• Potential Fishing Zone Advisory Services
• Ocean State Forecast Services
• Early Warning for Tsunami and Storm Surges
• Information Bank Web-based Service
• Contribution to Weather/Monsoon/Climate Forecast
• Value-added Services for Coastal Management

• Fishing Community

• Coastal States

National Infrastructure Network

• IMD, Navy, NHO,
• Coast Guards

International Interface
Ocean science and Modeling
Satellite Oceanography

• Ports and Harbours
• Off-shore and Shipping

• Remote Sensing Satellites
• Oceansat-1(1999)
• Ocean Colour Monitor
• Oceansat-2(2008)
• Ocean Colour Monitor, Scatterometer
• Foreign Satellites

• In-situ Observations
• Argo Profiling Floats
• Data Buoys
• Current Meter Arrays
• XBTs, Tide gauges
• Sea Truth

• Research Institutions
• Academia

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2010

• Integrated approach for Minerals
• Strategies for Shallow Gas Reserves
• Gravity Surveys (Aerial/Satellite)

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Low altitude Data, Integration with geological
data for mineral exploration
2000
1990
Aeromagnetic Surveys (Nation-wide Coverage )
1980
1975
Airborne Geophysical Surveys (for Mineral
Exploration)
Experimental Studies
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2010

• Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission
• (150,000 Scale) for rest of the Country

2005
Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission phase-1
2 (150,000 Scale) for 10 States
2000
1990
Nation-wide Ground Water Surveys (1250,000
Scale)
1980
1975
Experimental Studies
Potential Ground Water Zones
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2010

• Geomorpholical Maps for the entire country
• (on 150,000 Scale) as part of
• Natural Resources Data base (NNRMS)
• -Genetic-based-

2005
2000
Geomorphological Maps for Specific
applications -e.g.hydrogeological need-
1990
1980
Pilot Studies
1975
Geomorphological Mapping
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2010

• Hazard Zonation for the rest of the country
• Landslide Risk assessment (GSI-NRSA-ITC
  Project)
• Earthquake Precursor Studies
• -Ionospheric and Thermal

Tsunami- Damage assessment
2005
Landslide Hazard Zonation (Part of Himalayan
region)
2000
1990
Earthquake-Damage assessment
1980
1975
Disaster Management (Landslide, Earthquake,
Tsunami)
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Data Flow
Platform Instrument Annual Volume Data Vol. Per Year
In-Situ Argo 2 GB 1214GB
In-Situ XBT 2 GB 1214GB
In-Situ Moored Buoy 2 GB 1214GB
In-Situ Drifting Buoys 2 GB 1214GB
In-Situ Current Meter Moorings 2 GB 1214GB
In-Situ Tide Gauges 2 GB 1214GB
In-Situ HF Radars 200 GB 1214GB
In-Situ Bottom Pressure Recorders 2 GB 1214GB
In-Situ Seismic Data 1000 GB 1214GB
Satellite NOAA 400GB 3600 GB
Satellite MODIS Tera/Aqua 2000 GB 3600 GB
Satellite OCM/Oceansat-1 400 GB 3600 GB
Satellite TRMM 200 GB 3600 GB
Satellite Quikscat 200 GB 3600 GB
Satellite SeaWifs 200GB 3600 GB
Satellite Altimeter 200 GB 3600 GB
Model Outputs, Reanalysys Data   200 GB 200 GB
Geospatial Data Bathymetry 2 GB 2 GB
Geospatial Data Topography 2 GB 2GB
Digital Atlas Atlases of various parameters 2 GB 2 GB
Total Total Total 5020 GB
5 TB/Year
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Where are we now?
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Where are we now?

• Registration of Users Collaborators and Partners
• Geochemical dataset of Cuddapa Volcanic Lava
  registered and mapped to Google Map
• Can be downloaded
• ArcGIS/ArcMIS application developed and
  integrated to iGEON-India Portal as a service
• The largest Deccan rock database, of about 8000
  rock analyses, is available. This is an
  international level activity and work is in
  progress, supported by the IUGS-IGCP.

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• Demos were given during the PRAGMA-13 Workshop,
  that highlighted
• Connectivity,
• Processing,
• Dataset contribution and transfer
• between GEON, iGEON-India and iGEON-India PoPs

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iGeon-India Node
SDSC Geon Node
Connected and can Access services at remote
servers
Portal at local host igeon
Specialized Geo toolbox
ArcIMS Desktop Setup
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Where do we go from here?

• Access to geologic data from India to GEON/PRAGMA
  like Indian paleomagnetic, paleontologic, and
  paleogeographic datasets and associated maps.
• Access to mineralogical datasets. Some of the
  data that will be published includes Indian
  metallogenic data on diamonds and kimberlites,
  which are critical in understanding geologic
  processes at a global scale.

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• Access to Indian geophysical data like gravity
  data, seismic data, and Deccan flood basalt
  geochemistry data.
• First gravity data published in 1975 (contour
  interval 10 mGal)
• Revised sets published in 2006 (contour interval
  5 mGal) For restricted circulation

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• Data from regions that have similar age and
  geology as regions in India are of great interest
  for comparative studies.
• Access to other datasets that may be interest to
  PRAGMA/GEON Community
• Make resources available to Research Students to
  do better science
• Reach out to other Colleges/University
  researchers
• Network Bandwidth
• Research Collaborators/Partner/Student exchange
• Identify more iGEON-India PoPs

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Contribute to GEON

• GeoInformatic Toolbox
• Cataloguing
• Data Replication
• LiDAR data processing etc.

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GeoInformatic Toolbox

• Uploading Datasets
• Formatting
• Correcting the Data
• Radiometric
• Geometric
• Geo-referencing
• Registration/layering
• Change detection
• Raster to Vector Conversion (Shape files)
• Image Enhancement
• Color Image Processing

• Image Restoration
• Transformations (FFT, DCT..
• Classification
• Supervised
• Unsupervised (clustering)
• Segmentation
• Edge Based
• Region Based
• Analysis of Image Tone, Shape, Pattern, Texture
• Identify Objects
• Use Soft Computing Paradigm

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Computing Resources
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High Performance System

• IBM p690, Regatta
• 32 Power 4 1.3 GHz Processors
• L1/L2 cache
• 64 GB High Speed Memory
• 400 GB HDD with RAID Control
• Hardware Management Console with 17 Color
  Monitor, Keyboard, CDROM, FDD, Mouse, etc.
• I/O Backup System with the following features
• 540 GB  tape backup
• Fiber Channel Adapter 

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• Three Nos. of IBM p690, each with
• 32 CPU of POWER4 _at_ 1.7GHz
• 64 GB RAM
• 4 TeraBytes of Hard Disk
• Total peak performance 650 GFLOP,
• IBM p595
• 64-CPU with Power5 _at_1.9 GHz and Power 5 _at_2.3GHz
• 128 GB RAM each

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Other Hardware

• SUN Linux Cluster Installed 16 node each Dual
  Xeon Processor, with 1 GB of RAM (Total 32
  Processor), Each Node 80MB HDD
• 24 port High Speed Fibre Switch Expected
  shortly
• 15 PCs

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Graphic Workstations

• 6 SGI Octane 2 workstations Installed
• 2 R14K Processors
• 4GB RAM
• 100GB HDD
• 21 Color Monitor
• V12 128MB Graphic Board
• 2 SUN Blade 2000 workstations Installed
• 2 UltaSparc III Cu Processor
• 4GB RAM
• 78 GB HDD
• 128 MB Frame Buffer
• 21 Color Monitor

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Honeycomb Networking of Geosciences Community
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Acknowledgements

• NGRI
• NRSA
• INCOIS
• GSI
• AMD
• IUSSTF
• UoH
• UGC
• DST etc

• GEON, SDSC
• PRAGMA Steering Committee
• NCSA etc
• Collaborating Partners etc.

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Thank you for kind attention