2 February 2017:
– Contributed by Heather Lynch, Stony Brook University, Polar RCN Co-PI
The Polar Cyberinfrastructure Research Coordination Network (Polar RCN) aims to connect the Polar Science, Data and High-Performance and Distributed Computing (HPDC) communities to enable deeper penetration of computing methods and cyberinfrastructure into the polar sciences.
On August 21, 2016, the Polar Cyberinfrastructure RCN held a side meeting on polar cyberinfrastructure at the SCAR Open Science Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As elsewhere in science, the availability of ‘big data’ in Antarctic science is proving to be both a blessing and a curse, and requires advances in cyberinfrastructure to effectively manage the ever increasing requirements for data storage, transmission, and processing. Our discussion focused on the following main areas: computing, storage, networking and transmission of data, training, and metadata standards.