Once having a basic understanding of how the data is to be stored, and how to organize a tool belt of of utilities, the next step was to address Professor Bach's dream of the world of researchers living together in perfect harmony, sharing their work. I was able to quickly prototype a basic framework for adding members and adding projects ... Professor Bach loved what I had done. But honestly it was a "Hello World" of community building. Joomla, Wordpress, and Drupal handle this type of community and collaboration much easier with a lot less effort.
So, What I am envisioning is using an existing framework, most likely Joomla and then building custom Joomla components to support the unique needs of the researcher.
But even after determining what a given program might have to do, for me the key will be tying the web community/collaboration front-end with a back end High Performance Computing Cloud Community backbone to do all the heavy lifting. It is too much to expect a single unix apache web server to process millions of records and store millions of knowledge cubes. So, I am really looking forward to tying these approaches together.
In the meantime, my work is to design approaches and algorithms which will scale depending upon the amount of data provided by a given researcher.
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