Projects
SciServer: The Science Platform
IDIES created, develops, maintains, and hosts the SciServer platform—a fully integrated data analysis web app that provides users with computational infrastructure via virtual machines or “images” and public datasets. SciServer is free and available for use to anyone.
SciServer is a fully integrated cyber infrastructure platform offering tools, storage, and compute power—as well as access to over 2PB in public datasets in a wide range of domains from genomics to social sciences.
Originally developed for use as the official science platform for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) catalog data, SciServer enables researchers who work with scientific big data to go beyond the capabilities of their personal computers by “bringing the analyses to the data,” ensuring reproducibility and facilitating collaboration worldwide.
SciServer has hosted the entire catalog dataset served by the SDSS Catalog Archive Server (CAS) since the project’s inception, including data release 1 (DR1, released in 2001) through the latest data release (DR19). Each DR is cumulative (Includes all previous DRs), and provides access to nearly half a billion images and millions of spectra, along with many derived datasets like pre-computed cross-matches with other popular catalogs and value-added catalogs giving more information about certain classes of objects.
In addition to SDSS and other astronomy data, SciServer includes the full public data releases from a number of other projects representing a broad range of research domains including:
Earth Sciences
Education
Fluid Dynamics
Genomics
Life
Sciences
Materials
Science
Oceanography
Social
Sciences
Affiliated Projects and Services
Below is a selection from all of the ongoing research projects, each offering open access to relevant datasets via SciServer. While these projects have their own individual web presences and documentation, the project datasets can all be accessed from within SciServer when creating a container.
Astropath
Where astronomy meets pathology: The Astropath Cellview platform applies astronomy-mapping techniques to the microtumor environment, facilitating more effective cancer treatments.
Johns Hopkins Turbulence
JHTDB
The Johns Hopkins Turbulence Database (or JHTDB) Open Numerical Turbulence Laboratory enables access to multi-Terabyte turbulence databases.
Poseidon Project
The Poseidon open oceans simulation project aims to advance computational oceanography by developing cyberinfrastructure that enables seamless access to high-resolution ocean simulations, democratizing model data for researchers, casual users, and non-experts alike.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
SDSS-V is the first facility providing multi-epoch optical & IR spectroscopy across the entire sky, as well as offering contiguous integral-field spectroscopic coverage of the Milky Way and Local Volume galaxies. This panoptic spectroscopic survey continues the strong SDSS legacy of innovative data and collaboration infrastructure.
