SpectroGrid: Providing Simple Secure Remote Access to Scientific Instruments

2008 22nd International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications Pub Date : 2008-06-09 DOI:10.1109/HPCS.2008.17

A. Charbonneau, V. Terskikh

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With the availability of high performance networks and the increase in the number of online scientific instruments, remote instrumentation is a topic with much popularity lately, promising better instrument utilization, easier collaboration between distant organizations and diminution of travel-related costs and overhead. At NRC we needed a simple and secure method for researchers to remotely access nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) instruments located at the National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids for data acquisition and visualization purposes. This paper discusses the design and implementation of SpectroGrid: a simple remote instrumentation solution based on open source technologies. VNC (virtual network computing) is used as the remote control implementation, and security is provided by the grid security infrastructure (GSI) and secure shell (SSH). A discussion about the cost-saving potentials of SpectroGrid for the Canadian research community will also be given. SpectroGrid is currently being used by Canadian researchers to remotely access NMR instruments located at NRC in Ottawa.

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SpectroGrid:为科学仪器提供简单安全的远程访问

随着高性能网络的可用性和在线科学仪器数量的增加，远程仪器仪表是最近非常受欢迎的一个话题，它有望更好地利用仪器，更容易在远程组织之间进行协作，并减少与旅行相关的成本和开销。在NRC，我们需要一种简单而安全的方法，供研究人员远程访问位于国家超高场固体核磁共振设施的核磁共振(NMR)仪器，以进行数据采集和可视化。本文讨论了基于开源技术的简单远程仪器解决方案SpectroGrid的设计和实现。远程控制采用VNC(虚拟网络计算)实现，安全由GSI (grid security infrastructure)和SSH (secure shell)提供。本文还将讨论SpectroGrid为加拿大研究界节省成本的潜力。目前，加拿大研究人员正在使用SpectroGrid远程访问位于渥太华NRC的核磁共振仪器。

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2008 22nd International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications

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