Multidisciplinary High-Throughput

This project seeks to find simple models for complex behaviors through a combination of collecting large quantitative datasets and building models using various theoretical approaches. Several people from different scientific backgrounds located at different institutes are involved in the project and must share access to large datasets. The existing infrastructure is strained by storage of the raw video data, hinders high-throughput analysis due to computational limitations, and prevents full collaboration due to the difficulty of transferring large amounts of data between members of the research group. This proposal seeks to solve these problems by offloading the storage of the videos to the SARA facility, speeding up the data processing and analysis using cloud computing, and using dynamic lightpaths to facilitate transferring of datasets between locations.