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Secure, Data Intensive Collaborative Infrastructure for Multi-Site Coordinated Real-Time and Archived Data Analysis--Creare, Inc., Etna Road, P.O. Box 71, Hanover, NH 03755-0071; (603) 643-3800
Mr. Matthew J. Miller, Principal Investigator
Mr. James A. Block, Business Official
DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-98ER82557
Amount: $749,636
Capable systems are needed to provide secure, robust data sharing between multiple sites to support the DOE vision of efficient remote collaboration. An enabling technology is the recently-developed Ring Buffered Network Bus (RBNB) data server software. Widely dispersed users can collaboratively contribute, monitor, and analyze real-time and archived data using a broad range of custom and off-the-shelf software packages in a secure and robust environment. Phase I connected multiple on-line data sources and sinks and demonstrated the security, robustness, and functionality of the remote collaboration system. Several DOE applications that could benefit from this technology were identified, and "interface templates" were created to support custom analysis and data encryption. In Phase II, the RBNB technology will be advanced significantly by enhancing data security features, building tools for the practical management of widely dispersed RBNB networks, improving the underlying object model, adapting the RBNB to legacy scientific data archives, and supporting the deployment of the DOE distributed data systems.
Commercial Applications and Other Benefits as described by the awardee: In addition to supporting data collaboration, this technology should be directly applicable to manufacturing process control, aircraft flight safety monitoring, medical data monitoring, equipment diagnostic monitoring, vehicle testing, and enterprise data management.