John Darlington (Imperial College London) - CitizenGrid
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John Darlington (Imperial College London) presenting a user-friendly crowdsourcing platform, CitizenGrid, at the Citizen Cyberlab Summit, 17-18 September 2015, University of Geneva (UNIGE).
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John Darlington (Imperial College London) - CitizenGrid
- 2. Unified Support for Volunteer Computing Volunteers (Citizens) Resources Local Machine Cloud Credentials Thinking Local (VBox) Cloud Game Developers (Scientists) Register Games Local (Vbox) Cloud (EC2, Openshare) CitizenGrid
- 4. Volunteers (App Users) CitizenGrid VBox VMI Cloud VMI Location Details Cloud Credentials VM on OpenStack VM on AWS VM on VBox CCS Applications Directory Launch the App VC Application VT Application Launch the App Browser Register and Login Add Cloud Credentials Search and Select a CCS Application Support for Volunteers
- 5. CitizenGrid Features John Darlington & Poonam Yadav – ICSTM User Account Management Sign-up, Login/log out Account update /Password recovery User role switch facility Application Group Management Online Resources & REstFul API Help-guide and documentation Browse-able public API Source code: Github public repository Application Management Application creation wizard Application tagging (Branches, Categories) Virtual Box image upload Cloud Image’s info registration Applications and images delete facility Cloud Credential Management OpenStack and EC2 cloud credentials Add credentials Delete credentials Application Server and Client hosting on Cloud Launching of VM instances on EC2/OpenStack Running-Instance status check Stopping a running instance Application Portal with free text search Table view of public registered applications Free text based search on applications Ordered view of applications Detail view of selected application with launching facility Application Client Launch on Local Virtual Box Launches Vbox images on local Vbox Provides support for both x86 and x86_64 Provides support for Ubuntu and other Linux versions
- 7. Cyberlab pilot Projects and Tools CERN VM with copilot (LHC@home 2.0) CERN VAS Game Redwire EpiCollect GeoKey
- 8. CitizenGrid, VAS & LiveQ VAS Game LHC Volunteer Computing Infrastructure VAS Game Players CitizenGrid Citizen Science Volunteers ProjectCreatorTeam VAS worker node VAS Worker Node on Local VBox VAS Worker Node on a Cloud 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Editor's Notes
- User Account Management: sign-up, login, password recovery, user account update facility, user role switch facility. Online Resources: User Help-guide and documentation, browse- able public API. Application Management: Multi-page application creation, application tagging (Branches/Categories/subcategories), Virtual Box Image upload for application client ( compressed or uncompressed), Cloud Images details registration for application’s client and server, Application delete functionality. Cloud Credential Management: Openstack and EC2 credential management (Add, Delete). Application Hosting on Cloud: Support for launching, status check and stopping on VM instances of application’s server and client on OpenStack and EC2. Application Client Launch on Virtual Box: Support of launching application client on local VirtualBox. Applications Search Portal: Public registered applications search portal where applications can be search based on free text or in field order.