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Abstract
Mapping Distributed Life with Distributed Computation
Track: Ecology, Archaeology, and Conservation
Author(s): James Beach, Aimee Stewart, Gregory Vorontsov
Lifemapper maps the distribution and diversity of species on a global scale. Using a distributed query architecture to retrieve georeferenced locality information of biological specimens archived in museums worldwide, the University of Kansas creates maps and predictive models of species ranges based on environmental correlations with locales where species are documented to occur. To parallelize the computation of each independent species prediction a screen-saver client was created which, like SETI@Home, performs analyses on desktop computers before uploading the resulting model to an Internet server. Lifemapper uses San Diego Supercomputer Center's GARP, Esri's ArcIMS, ArcSDE, and Microsoft SQL Server as its primary software components.
James Beach
University of Kansas
Biodiversity Research Center
1345 JayHawk Boulevard
Lawrence , KS 66045
USA
Phone: 785 864-4645
Fax: 785 864-5335
E-mail: beach@ku.edu
Aimee Stewart
University of Kansas
Biodiversity Research Center
1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence 66044
USA
Phone: 785-864-2233
Fax: 785-864-5335
E-mail: astewart@ku.edu
Gregory Vorontsov
University of Kansas
Biodiversity Research Center
1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence 66044
USA
Phone: 785-864-4655
Fax: 785-864-5335
E-mail: voron999@ku.edu