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The Lariat Science Server provides services to facilitate research collaboration.
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A Shared Desktop service is available. This allows geographically
distributed researchers to share control of a single computer
through a shared GUI.
For example, scientists in Tokyo and Bozeman could each
log in to the Lariat Science Server, start a data analysis
tool and jointly interact with that tool.
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Data handling is important for research collaboration. To
facilitate manipulation of reasonably large data sets, the
Lariat Science Server provides a 1.2TB SAMBA filesystem.
This can be used for data analysis with the shared desktop
of for staging to colleagues. For example, a dataset can
be written to the filesystem by a researcher from any client
machine connected to the Internet. That researcher could then
provide read-only access to any colleague to allow download
of that dataset. Technical
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Efficient data transfer becomes important for
large data sets. The
Data Central program at
San Diego Supercomputer Center has allocated 1TB of
online storage to the Lariat project. To enable efficient
data transfer between the Science Server and SDSC, a fast
data transfer utility has been installed. This allows
much faster file transfers than standard utilities.
Technical Details
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The MIEN
analysis tool is available on the Server.
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MATLAB is installed on the Server.
This allows users to run MATLAB analysis in a shared
environment or on large data sets. This image is a visualization
of a MATLAB simulation run on the Lariat Science Server.
The simulation computes air velocities around two cricket
cercal sensory hairs.
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