2007 September 18 w/Tom Barclay

ACTION ITEMS

Attendees

• Dozier
• Frew
• Tom Barclay
• Greg
• Mike
• Peter

Agenda & Notes

1. Current events at MS Research
   • Tom's current situation
     • working part time with Virtual Earth
     • EScience
       • large scale and systems
   • What does SnowREASoN need from MS/Tom
     • inside info from MS
       • what's up with Virtual Earth, how does it work
       • SQLServer developments
       • $?
       • SQLServer 2008, spatial capabilities
       • how to handle big computing problems better
         • cpu and data stresses
           • Dozier's program that accesses 1000 files
           • node on a cluster doesn't scale?
           • more complex analysis than just tiling (edge effects)
             • user's want data by watersheds or overlapping
           • lots of code in Matlab and IDL
             • what processing gets done on SQLServer, what gets done in Matlab
     • how can we scale snow product generation at UCSB
     • how to present/communicate to water managers, etc
     • how to build a system for data access, etc
       • reliable throughput for Lt. Gov's project
   • Virtual Earth Developments
     • used to get equipment from Rackable Gear
       • issues with their gear
     • now using Verari
       • storage blades, compute blades
       • gig-e switch per rack
       • 10 gigahertz
     • CATMAI ?
       • internal MS name
     • TerraServer is still alive
     • SQLServer want's help on georaster support
       • Informix spatial blade guy is now working for MS to implement this
       • MS bought Geodacy
       • grid based spatial indexing
       • is currently available
       • Tom wants to put MODIS data online with this
         • temporal data
         • USDA data
           • 60% coverage of US every year
           • copressed county mosaics
           • MRSid format
         • experiment with UI, maybe will be adopted by Google Earth?
     • make TerraServer a node inside Virtual Earth
       • maybe make this a layer
     • 2 viewers supported
     • How to distribute snow data
       • Tom can provide us with an interface to tiled MODIS
     • or we can publish data trough Tom's tiling system
       • we would be ingesting GeoTIFF tiles instead of HDF tiles
       • Usage
         • people already know how to use virtual earth

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