# Presentation: 709345

## Scientific Collaboratories: Remote Research and Education Via the Internet

**James D. Myers**
**EMSL Collaboratory Project**
**Pacific Northwest **
**National Laboratory**

## DOE Restoration Challenges at Hanford

**DOE Restoration Challenges at Hanford**

- Cost:
- $40 B (FY1989)
- $80 B (FY1992)
- Time
- 30+ years
- Complex Problem
- 1500+ Sites
- 1.4 billion cubic meters of contaminated soils
- 900,000 cubic meters of radioactive waste
- 70+ megacuries of radioactive waste
- 150 square miles of contaminated aquifer
- Compliance Requirements
- EPA
- State

## Environmental Molecular Sciences LaboratoryPacific Northwest National Laboratory

**... to advance molecular science and support the long-term environmental missions of the U.S. Department of Energy.**

**... to make unique research resources available to DOE scientists and researchers from academia and industry.  **
**    ****... to provide the opportunities needed to educate and recruit young scientists to meet the demanding challenges of the future.**

***Mission***

***Collaborative Research Facility***

## Scientific Issues: Contaminated Soils and Groundwater

## 	A Collaboratory is a “... ‘center without walls,’ in which the nation’s researchers can perform their research without regard to geographical location
interacting with colleagues, 
accessing instrumentation, 
sharing data and computational resources, [and] 
accessing information in digital libraries.”          
Bill Wulf (1989)

... going beyond text exchange and conference/presentation metaphors;  bringing scientific resources into an environment to allow in-depth, collaborative work.

- interacting with colleagues,
- accessing instrumentation,
- sharing data and computational resources, [and]
- accessing information in digital libraries.”
*Bill Wulf (1989)*
- ... going beyond text exchange and conference/presentation metaphors;  bringing scientific resources into an environment to allow in-depth, collaborative work.

**The Collaboratory Concept**

## Supporting Scientific Collaboration

**Discovery**
**Contact / Setup**
**Training**
**Remote Experiment Monitoring**
**Remote Analysis**
**Remote Consultation**
**Joint Authoring of Papers**

**Notes:**
Facilities On-Line and Virtual Laboratories will require much more than remote instrument control. There are many phases of the research process that are independent of the instrument itself. (Further, much work can occur during chance, informal encounters.) If these are not supported, external collaborators become second class citizens. Supporting social mechanisms that build trust and a sense of belonging to a team is also an important goal.

## Scientific Collaboration:

**Intermittent**
**Involves complex, multidimensional data**
**No routine data handling**
**Discovery/learning**
**Archetypes:**
**Peer-to-Peer**
**Mentor-Student**
**Inter-disciplinary**
**Producer - Consumer**

## The Collaborative Research Environment (CORE) Design Goals

**Simple - easy to learn, no IP/port numbers**
**Ubiquitous - cross-platform**
**Integrated - single logon**
**Extensible - easily add needed scientific resources**
**Flexible - supporting different work processes**
**Secure - for safety, intellectual property**
**Reliable - guaranteed quality of service**
**Transparent - allows natural social interaction**

## What the User Sees 

**Lab Notebook**

**What the User Sees **

**Colleagues**

**Session Manager**

**Shared Computer Display**

**Whiteboard**

**Analysis Tools**

**Scientific **
**Instruments**

**Information Browsing**

## Collaboratory Access via the WWW

**Collaboratory Access via the WWW**

**WebTour**
**File Transfer**
**Chat Box**
**Televiewer**
**Audio/Video**
**Whiteboard**
**Data Notebook**
**On-line Instruments**

**with one click...**

## WebTour Mentoring Facility

- Linking WWW
- Browsers for:

-  Discussions
-  Lectures
-  Slideshows

## Cross-Platform Desktop Videoconferencing(audio, video, whiteboard)

**Cross-Platform Desktop Videoconferencing****(audio, video, whiteboard)**

**Multicast Backbone (MBONE) Tools for Unix (Xerox PARC, LBL, NASA)**
- Audio - vat
- Video - nv, vic
- Whiteboard - wb
**CU-SeeMe Video for Mac, PC (Cornell)**
- Desktop Video
- Connection to the MBONE
**PNL Reflector Bridge**
- External Cu-SeeMe Connections

**Notes:**
Session Director is a means of announcing connection information for audio, video, and whiteboard sessions. sd will launch vat,nv, and wb to connect you to a session. These tools are Unix only.

CU-SeeMe is available for Macs and PCs (Windows). On Windows, the audio capability is in its alpha release (video exists already). Audio does not work well on older Macs.

The Connectix camera shown on a later slide is a ~100$ Mac solution. It requires no additional video board.

CU-SeeMe is limited to a 160x120 B/W image.

CU-SeeMe has been licensed to a commercial developer (White Pine).

Through the use of Unix based Reflectors, CU-SeeMe users can participate in MBONE based A/V conferences.

## TeleViewer Collaboration

**TeleViewer Collaboration**

**Windows**

**SGI/IRIX**

**Solaris**

**MacOS**

**Dynamic Cross Platform Application Viewer**
**Monitor Experiments or Analysis Aplications**
**Future:**
- Differencing of Frames
- Annotation
- Record & Playback

## EMSL On-Line RF Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer

**EMSL On-Line ****RF Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer**

## EMSL Electronic Notebook

**WWW based access to EMSL data and meta-data**
**Automation of data/metadata input from instruments and calculations**
**Querying/ Searching**
**Simple, secure access to full datasets**
**Interactive input of results into notebook from the WWW**
**Rich media types (text, images, files, 3D structures, voice, animations, video, ...)**

## The Current Notebook

**Table of Contents:**
**  ****Notebooks**
**  ****Folders**
**  ****Pages**
**Add a new page**

**Data Access:**
**Metadata**
**Live Graphs**
**File Access**

**Threaded Annotations: text, local files, images, screen capture, audio, ...**

**Data and annotation types can easily be added**

## EMSLElectronic Notebook

**EMSL****Electronic Notebook**

** ****Secure  WWW**
** ****Access**

## FY’97 

**FY’97 **

**R&D**
**Shared VR**
**Inter-operability Framework***
**Collaboration Management***
**Security Architecture**
**Floor Management**
**Quality of Service**
**Electronic Notebooks***

**Pilots**
**Diesel Collaboratory**
**Materials Micro-Characterization (M****2****C)**

## Collaboratory Technology is on the way

**Is that it? **
**Some new Technology Toys?**
**We’re all a few % more effective?**

## Electronic Collaboration:Worse, Better,

**Lack of non-verbal cues**
**Lack of presence**
**Delays, network outages**
**Parallel development:**
**infrastructure**
**applications**
**environments**

**Remote Access**
**Scaling**
**Desktop access to people, information and scientific resources**
**Automation of recording and routing**
**Translation/different views of data**
**Media integration**
**Anonymity / Equality**

**or Different?**

## Removing Distance (and Time) from the Equation

**	****Live where you want**
**	****Buy clothes in New York**
**	****Pick up wine an cheese in Paris**
**	****Dine on a beach in Tahiti**

**Removing Distance (and Time) from the Equation**

## Separated by Distance & Time:

-  Symbolic Z-matrix:
-     Charge = 1 Multiplicity = 1
-  Li
-  -     1     1.
-  O     1     LiO       2     90.
-  O     1     LiO       2     90.       3     180.      0
-  C     3     CO        1     LiOC      2     0.        0
-  C     3     CO        1     LiOC      2     180.      0
-  C     4     CO        1     LiOC      2     90.       0
-  C     4     CO        1     LiOC      2     270.      0
-  H     5     CHa       3     OCHa      1     0.        0
-  H     5     CHb       3     OCHb      1     alfa      0
-  H     5     CHb       3     OCHb      1     -alfa     0
-  H     6     CHa       3     OCHa      1     0.        0
-  H     6     CHb       3     OCHb      1     alfa      0
-  H     6     CHb       3     OCHb      1     -alfa     0
-  H     7     CHa       4     OCHa      1     0.        0
-  H     7     CHb       4     OCHb      1     alfa      0
-  H     7     CHb       4     OCHb      1     -alfa     0
-  H     8     CHa       4     OCHa      1     0.        0
-  H     8     CHb       4     OCHb      1     alfa      0
-  H     8     CHb       4     OCHb      1     -alfa     0

**Resource Discovery**

**Learning/Training**

**Remote Experiment Monitoring &**
**Analysis**

**Remote Consultation.**
**(Set-up)**

**Joint Authoring of Papers**

**Problem Solving**

## New opportunities:

**Exposing students to ‘real world’ science and the latest scientific techniques**
**Connecting researchers at smaller institutions to their colleagues and expensive instrumentation**

**  ****Allowing increased specialization (instrument developer, data **
**   ****analyst, experiment designer)**
**  ****Allowing cross-disciplinary projects**

## U.W. Chem 155 - Live from the EMSL

**U.W. Chem 155 - Live from the EMSL**

**WWW/ Excel Spreadsheet   ****	****	**** A/V, WebTour Lecture**
**Remote Data Acquisition   ****	****	****EMSL WWW Data Notebook**

## Organzational Options:

**Organzational ****Options:**

**Buying 1/4 of an NMR spectrometer**
**Assembling a “Scientific SWAT Team” to address a new problem**
**Virtual Institutes - one stop shopping for related techniques**

## PNNL-LBNL Virtual Research FacilityJames D. Myers, John M. Price, Paul D. Ellis - PNNLStu Loken, Bill Johnston, Deb Agarwal - LBNL

**A pilot project enabling and supporting productive collaborative chemistry research between PNNL and LBNL: **
**Molecular Characterization by NMR and Crystallography **

## Collaboratory for Undergraduate Research and Education (CURE)Joint DOE / NSF project

**Student classroom experience enhancement**
**Faculty skills enhancement**
**Student research enhancement**
**...****	****learning in the context of real-world problems****and interdisciplinary science**
**...****	****training researchers who become inspired by ****DOE missions**
**... ****understanding how to make collaborative interactions scale**
**CURE Workshop - PNNL, Oct. 16-19, 1996**

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## And New Questions:

**What’s a paper? How do we evaluate work across institutional boundaries?**
**When is research work and when is it education?**
**What’s more important - home or virtual istitute affiliation? Who are your peers?**
**What good is second best? (What’s software and what’s plumbing?) What is the best division of work (what scales) ?**

## Collaboratories

**more than new technology**
**a new paradigm for scientific Research and Education**

**Borromean Rings -**
** ****the synergy of collaboration**

## Acknowledgments

**Thom Dunning, Ray Bair, Eric Leber, Norm Chonacky**
**Debbie Payne, Ken Yates, and many others ... (CORE, TeleViewer)**
**John Price (EMSL On-Line)**
**Students (Electronic Notebook)**
**U.S. Department of Energy**
**Mathematical, Information and Computational Sciences Division of the Office of Energy Research ****	**** **
**Distributed Collaboratory Experiment Environments (DCEE)**
**Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)**
**Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) ****	**

- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is a multiprogram national laboratory operated by Battelle Memorial Institute for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC06-76RLO 1830.

## EMSL Collaboratory Related Research:

**EMSL On-line Instrument Project**
**http://130.20.186.137:2080/index.htm**
**John M. Price *****et. al.***

**Rattlesnake Mountain Observatory**
**Alliance for the Advancement of Science Through Astronomy (AASTA)**
**http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/RMO/**
**Eric Leber, Ken Swanson (flyers, Alan Hale talk)**

**Collaboratory Group**
**http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/collab/CollabHome.html**
**Jim Myers (Collab Tech Brief)**