This page includes material from 2001 to 2005.

Publications

• D. E. Bernholdt, B. A. Allan, R. Armstrong, F. Bertrand, K. Chiu, T. L. Dahlgren, K. Damevski, W. R. Elwasif, T. G. W. Epperly, M. Govindaraju, D. S. Katz, J. A. Kohl, M. Krishnan, G. Kumfert, J. W. Larson, S. Lefantzi, M. J. Lewis, A. D. Malony, L. C. McInnes, J. Nieplocha, B. Norris, S. G. Parker, J. Ray, S. Shende, T. L. Windus, and S. Zhou, "A Component Architecture for High-Performance Scientific Computing," International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, (special issue: ACTS Collection), to appear, November 2005.
• D. S. Katz, G. B. Berriman, E. Deelman, J. Good, J. C. Jacob, C. Kesselman, A. C. Laity, T. A. Prince, G. Singh, and M.-H. Su, "A Comparison of Two Methods for Building Astronomical Image Mosaics on a Grid," Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing (HPSEC-05), 2005.
• A. Bergou, B. Berriman, J. Good, J. Jacob, D. Katz, A. Laity, T. Prince, R. Williams, "Generating Mosaics of Astronomical Images," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-40297, p. 36, April 2005.
• G. Singh, E. Deelman, G. Mehta, K. Vahi, M.-H. Su, G. B. Berriman, J. Good, J. C. Jacob, D. S. Katz, A. Lazzarini, K. Blackburn, and S. Koranda, "The Pegasus Portal: Web Based Grid Computing," Proceedings of the The 20th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2005), 2005.
• D. S. Katz, N. Anagnostou, G. B. Berriman, E. Deelman, J. Good, J. C. Jacob, C. Kesselman, A. Laity, T. A. Prince, G. Singh, M.-H. Su, and R. Williams, "Astronomical Image Mosaicking on a Grid: Initial Experiences," Engineering the Grid - Status and Perspective, (Editors: B. Di Martino, J. Dongarra, A. Hoisie, L. Yang, and H. Zima,) ASP, expected 2005.
• E. R. Dobinson, J. C. Jacob, and T. P. Yunck, "From Data to Knowledge in Earth Science, Planetary Science, and Astronomy", Proceedings of the ESA Symposium on Ensuring the Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to the Scientific and Technical Data (PV-2004), October 2004.
• J. C. Jacob, R. Williams, J. Babu, S. G. Djorgovski, M. J. Graham, D. S. Katz, A. Mahabal, C. D. Miller, R. Nichol, D. E. Vanden Berk, and H. Walia, "Grist: Grid Data Mining for Astronomy," Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems (ADASS) XIV, October 2004.
• A. C. Laity, N. Anagnostou, B. Berriman, J. Good, J. C. Jacob, and D. S. Katz, "Montage: An Astronomical Image Mosaic Service for the NVO", Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems (ADASS) XIV, Pasadena, California, October 2004.
• D. S. Katz, E. R. Tisdale, and C. D. Norton, "Evaluating Performance of Components," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-30693, p. 32, August 2004.
• J. C. Jacob, D. S. Katz, T. Prince, G. B. Berriman, J. C. Good, A. C. Laity, E. Deelman, G. Singh, and M.-H. Su, "The Montage Architecture for Grid-Enabled Science Processing of Large, Distributed Datasets," Proceedings of the Earth Science Technology Conference (ESTC) 2004, June 2004.
• P. Li and H. Siegel, "Visualization of Earthquake Simulation Datasets," Proceedings of the Earth Science Technology Conference (ESTC) 2004, June 2004.
• D. S. Katz, A. Bergou, G. B. Berriman, G. L. Block, J. Collier, D. W. Curkendall, J. Good, L. Husman, J. C. Jacob, A. Laity, P. P. Li, C. Miller, T. Prince, H. Siegel, and R. Williams, "Accessing and Visualizing Scientific Spatiotemporal Data," Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, June 2004.
• G. B. Berriman, E. Deelman, J. Good, J. Jacob, D. S. Katz, C. Kesselman, A. Laity, T. A. Prince, G. Singh, and M. Su, "Montage: a Grid Enabled Engine for Delivering Custom Science-Grade Image Mosaics on Demand," Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, June 2004.
• E. Ciocca, I. Koren, Z. Koren, C. M. Krishna, and D. S. Katz, "Application-Level Fault Tolerance and Detection in the Orbital Thermal Imaging Spectrometer," Proceedings of the 2004 Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, April 2004.
• D. S. Katz, "PVM Wrapper," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-40232, p. 36, April 2004.
• J. A. Gunnels, D. S. Katz, E. S. Quintana-Ortí, R. A. van de Geijn, and E. R. Tisdale, "Software for Fault-Tolerant Matrix Multiplication," NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-30395, p. 37, February 2004.
• J. W. Larson, B. Norris, E. T. Ong, D. E. Bernholdt, J. B. Drake, W. R. El Wasif, M. W. Ham, C. E. Rasmussen, G. Kumfert, D. S. Katz, S. Zhou, and C. Deluca, "Components, The Common Component Architecture, and the Climate/Ocean/Weather Community," 20th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, 84th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, January 2004.
• B. Berriman, A. Bergou, E. Deelman, J. Good, J. Jacob, D. Katz, C. Kesselman, A. Laity, G. Singh, M.-H. Su, and R. Williams, "Montage: A Grid-Enabled Image Mosaic Service for the NVO," Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems (ADASS) XIII, October 2003.
• R. Williams, L. Briegaer, M. Feldmann, J. Jacob, G. Kremenek, and R. Moore, "Atlasmaker: Grid-Enabled Multiwavelength Imaging," Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems (ADASS) XIII, October 2003.
• G. Percival and L. Plesea, "Web Map Service (WMS) Global Mosaic," Digital Earth 2003, September 2003.
• D. Curkendall, E. J. Fielding, T. Cheng, and J. M. Pohl, "A Computational-Grid Based System for Continental Drainage Network Extraction Using SRTM Digital Elevation Models," Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW03), September 2003.
• J. Jacob, "yourSky: Custom Sky-Image Mosaics via the Internet," NPO-30556, NASA Tech Briefs, v. 27(6), p. 45, June 2003.
• M. Turmon, R. Granat, D. S. Katz, and J. Z. Lou, "Tests and Tolerances for High-Performance Software-Implemented Fault Detection," IEEE Transactions on Computers, v. 52(5), pp. 579-591, May 2003.
• R. Williams, B. Berriman, E. Deelman, J. Good, J. Jacob, C. Kesselman, C. Lonsdale, S. Oliver, and T. A. Prince, "Multi-wavelength image space: another Grid-enabled science," Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, v. 15(6), pp. 539-549, May 2003.
• D. S. Katz and R. R. Some, "NASA Advances Robotic Space Exploration," IEEE Computer, v. 36(1), pp. 52-61, January 2003.
• D. S. Katz, E. R. Tisdale, and C. D. Norton, "The Common Component Architecture (CCA) Applied to Sequential and Parallel Computational Electromagnetic Applications," Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific and Engineering Computation (IC-SEC 2002), December 2002.
• G. B. Berriman, D. Curkendall, J. Good, J. Jacob, D.S. Katz, M. Kong, T. Prince, and R. Williams, "Montage: An On-Demand Image Mosaic Service for the NVO," Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems (ADASS) XII, October 2002.
• J. C. Jacob, G. Block, and D. W. Curkendall, "Architecture for All-Sky Browsing of Astronomical Datasets," Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) XII, October 2002.
• G. B. Berriman, D. Curkendall, J. Good, J. Jacob, D. S. Katz, M. Kong, S. Monkewitz, R. Moore, T. Prince, R. Williams, "An Architecture for Access to Compute Intensive Image Mosaic and Cross-Identification Services in the NVO," Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, August 2002.
• J. C. Jacob, R. J. Brunner, D. Curkendall, S. G. Djorgovski, J. C. Good, L. Husman, G. Kremenek, and A. Mahabal, "yourSky: Rapid Desktop Access to Custom Astronomical Image Mosaics," Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, August 2002.
• P. Li, "Supercomputing Visualization for Earth Science Datasets," Proceedings of 2002 NASA Earth Science Technology Conference, June 2002.
• J. Jacob, "Multi-Screen Image and Catalog Viewing Program," NPO-30133, NASA Tech Briefs, v. 26(3), pp. 12a-13a, March 2002.
• S. G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal, R. Brunner, R. Williams, R. Granat, D. Curkendall, J. Jacob, P. Stolorz, "Exploration of Parameter Spaces in a Virtual Observatory," Proc. SPIE, v. 4477, p. 43-52, Astronomical Data Analysis, Eds. Jean-Luc Starck and Fionn D. Murtagh, November 2001.
• T. Sterling, D. S. Katz, and L. Bergman, "High-Performance Computing Systems for Autonomous Spaceborne Missions," International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, v. 15(3), pp. 282-296, Fall 2001.
• R. Gaskell, J. Collier, L. E. Husman, R. L. Chen, "Synthetic Terrain for Simulated Missions developed in a collaboration between Parallel Applications Technologies Group and Optical Navigation," NASA Science Information Systems Newsletter, Issue 60, ed. B.J. Sword, July 2001.
• J. Jacob, "yourSky: An Interface to the National Virtual Observatory Mosaicking Code," NASA Science Information Systems Newsletter, Issue 60, ed. B.J. Sword, July 2001.
• S. G. Djorgovski, R. J. Brunner, A. A. Mahabal, S. C. Odewahn, R. R. de Carvalho, R. R. Gal, P. Stolorz, R. Granat, D. Curkendall, J. Jacob, and S. Castro, "Exploration of Large Digital Sky Surveys," in Mining the Sky, eds. A. Banday et al., ESO Astrophysics Symposia, Springer Verlag, 2001.
• D. S. Katz, and J. Kepner, "Embedded/Real-Time Systems," International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (special issue: Cluster Computing White Paper), v. 15(2), pp. 186-190, Summer 2001.
• J. Jacob, "Software for Generating Mosaics of Astronomical Images," NPO-21121, NASA Tech Briefs, v. 25(4), p. 16a, April 2001.
• J. C. Jacob and L. Plesea, "Fusion, Visualization and Analysis Framework for Large, Distributed Data Sets," 2001 IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, March 2001.
• R.W. Gaskell, J.B. Collier, L.E. Husman and R.L. Chen, "Synthetic Environments for Simulated Missions," IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, March 2001.
• A. Johnson, A. Klumpp, J. Collier and A. Wolf, "Lidar-based Hazard Avoidance for Safe Landing on Mars", Proceedings of the 11th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, February 2001.

Talks and Posters

• D. S. Katz, G. B. Berriman, E. Deelman, J. Good, J. C. Jacob, C. Kesselman, A. C. Laity, T. A. Prince, G. Singh, and M.-H. Su, "Astronomical Image Mosaicking - An Application that allows Comparison of Cluster and Grid Technologies for Performance and Utility," On the Use of Commodity Clusters for Large-Scale Scientific Applications 2005 Symposium, 2005.
• D. S. Katz, G. B. Berriman, E. Deelman, J. Good, J. C. Jacob, C. Kesselman, A. C. Laity, T. A. Prince, G. Singh, and M.-H. Su, "Calculating Astronomical Image Mosaics on The Grid," ESMF on the GRID Workshop, 2005.
• L. Plesea, "OnEarth WMS Server, WMS Global Mosaic," GEON Visualization Workshop, March 2005.
• L. Plesea, "A Landsat-Based Global Mosaic," Second International Conference on Discrete Global Grids, October 2004.
• L. Plesea, "Serving Massive Global Data," Second International Conference on Discrete Global Grids, October 2004.
• D. S. Katz, G. B. Block, J. B. Brockman, D. Callahan, P. L. Springer, and T. Sterling, "Initial Kernel Timing Using a Simple PIM Performance Model," Seventh Annual Workshop on High-Performance Embedded Computing, September 2004.
• J. Jacob, "GRIST: Data Exploration Workflows for the Virtual Observatory," Workshop on Service Composition for Data Exploration in the Virtual Observatory, July 2004.
• C. Miller, "Building a Source Extraction Web Service," Workshop on Service Composition for Data Exploration in the Virtual Observatory, July 2004.
• L. Plesea, "Remote Imagery and Supercomputing: A Match Made OnEarth," SGI Users Group Meeting, May 2004.
• L. Plesea, "Remote Imagery and Supercomputing: A Match Made OnEarth," JPL Section 367 All-Lab Lunchtime Lecture Series, March 2004.
• L. Plesea, "The WMS Global Mosaic," OGC 48th Technical Committee and OGC Planning Committee, January 2004.
• H. Siegel and P. Li, "MSLT, Multi Surface Light Table, a Tool for Viewing Faults Under Their Terrain," American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2003.
• J. Rundle, P. Rundle, A. Donnellan, P. Li, "Computing and Visualizing the Complex Dynamics of Earthquake Forecasting," American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2003.
• P. Li, J. Jacob, A. Braverman, and G. Block, "Visualization of Multi-dimensional MISR Datasets Using Self-Organizing Map," American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2003.
• D. S. Katz, "Data Access and Visualization for Clusters and Grids," Workshop on Enabling Technologies and Emerging Services for the Grid, Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 2003.
• D. S. Katz, G. Block, J. Collier, D. Curkendall, L. Husman, J. Jacob, P. P. Li, C. Miller, L. Plesea, and H. Siegel, "Making Sense of Terrain Data through Access and Visualization," ASPRS/MAPPS 2003 Conference on Terrain Data: Applications and Visualization - Making the Connection, October 2003.
• A. Li, X. Wang, P. Li, and Y. Chao, "Multi-Scale Modeling Using Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) in the Parallel and Distributed Computing Environment," 2003 Eastern Pacific Ocean Conference (EPOC), September 2003.
• Y. Chao, Z. Li, J. Choi, P. Li, J. McWilliams, P. Marchesiello, and X. Capet, "A Real-Time Operational Forecasting System for the Central California Coastal Ocean," 2003 Eastern Pacific Ocean Conference (EPOC), September 2003.
• G. B. Berriman, J. C. Good, M. Kong, A. Laity, J. Jacob, A. Bergou, D. S. Katz, R. Williams, E. Deelman, G. Singh, M.-H. Su, C. Kesselman, "Montage, Pegasus, and ROME," National Virtual Observatory Biannual Team Meeting, September, 2003.
• D. S. Katz, A. Bergou, G. B. Berriman, G. Block, J. Collier, D. Curkendall, J. Good, L. Husman, J. Jacob, A. Laity, P. P. Li, C. Miller, L. Plesea, T. Prince, H. Siegel, and R. Williams, "Data Access and Visualization Using Clusters and other Parallel Computers," On the Use of Commodity Clusters for Large-Scale Scientific Applications, July 2003.
• C. R. Mechoso, J. D. Farrara, D. S. Katz, "The UCLA Earth System Model: Applications and Further Developments," XXIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG2003), July 2003.
• J. Jacob, "Virtual Observatories: How Modern Technology Is Reshaping Research in Astronomy," JPL Section 367 All-Lab Lunchtime Lecture Series, May 2003.
• D. S. Katz, "Clusters, Fault Tolerance, and Other Thoughts," Seventh Workshop on Distributed Supercomputers (SOS7), Durango, Colorado, March 2003.
• J. C. Jacob and D. W. Curkendall, "yourSky as a Prototype for the National Virtual Observatory Component Architecture", SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, February 2003.
• D. S. Katz, E. R. Tisdale, and C. D. Norton, "A Common Component Architecture (CCA) Study," SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, February 2003.
• L. Plesea, "JPL Web Mapping Server," OGC 43rd Technical Committee and OGC Planning Committee, December 2002.
• D. S. Katz, "Application-Based Fault Tolerance for Spaceborne Applications," Workshop on High Performance Fault Adaptive Large Scale Real-Time Systems, November 2002.
• P. Peggy Li, J. Jacob, G. Li, Y. Chao, "OurOcean: A web portal to serve near real-time coastal ocean data products," JPL Information Technology Symposium, November 2002.
• J. C. Jacob, D. W. Curkendall, and G. Block, "Toward the National Virtual Observatory," JPL Information Technology Symposium, November 2002.
• D. S. Katz, E. R. Tisdale, and C. D. Norton, "A Study of the Common Component Architecture (CCA) Forum Software," JPL Information Technology Symposium, November 2002.
• D. Curkendall, J. Collier, B. Gaskell, J. Howell, C. Miller, and H. Siegel, "Exploring the Synthesis and Visualization of Martian Terrain Models," JPL Information Technology Symposium, November 2002.
• D. S. Katz, G. Block, J. Collier, D. Curkendall, L. Husman, J. Jacob, P. Li, C. Miller, L. Plesea, H. Siegel, "Making Data Make Sense: Accessing and Visualizing Very Large Data Sets," JPL Section 367 All-Lab Lunchtime Lecture Series, October 2002.
  The talk included the following animations:
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  • page 27: sandiego.mpg.
• J. C. Jacob, D. W. Curkendall, and G. Block, "Digital Sky Virtual Observatory", Applied Information Systems Research Program (AISRP) Principal Investigator Workshop, October 2002.
• D. S. Katz, E. R. Tisdale, and C. D. Norton, "A Study of the Common Component Architecture (CCA) Forum Software," Fifth Annual Workshop on High-Performance Embedded Computing, September 2002.
• D. S. Katz, E. R. Tisdale, and C. D. Norton, "A Common Component Architecture Experience Report and Performance Study," SIAM (50th Anniversary) Annual Meeting, July 2002.
• D. Curkendall and J. Jacob, "National Virtual Observatory," Third IPG Workshop, December 2001.
• D. S. Katz, "Fault-Tolerance for Matrix and Signal Processing Applications," Fifth Annual Workshop on High-Performance Embedded Computing, November 2001.
• H. Lorenz-Wirzba for J. Jacob, "Supercomputing for the National Virtual Observatory," presented at the NASA Exhibit at SC2001, November 2001.
• D. S. Katz, "Fault-Tolerant Libraries for Data Processing Applications," SC2001, November 2001.
• J. A. Gunnels, D. S. Katz, E. S. Quintana-Ortí, and R. A. van de Geijn, "Fault-Tolerant High-Performance Matrix Multiplication: Theory and Practice," International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, July 2001.
• J. Jacob, "Fusion, Visualization and Analysis Framework for Large, Distributed Data Sets," 2001 IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 2001.
• T. Cwik, D. S. Katz, and F. J. Villegas, "Integrated Design and Simulation for Millimeter-Wave Antenna Systems," 2001 IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 2001.