The I-GUIDE platform is designed to harness the vast, diverse, and distributed geospatial data at different spatial and temporal scales. This makes such data broadly accessible and usable to convergence research and education, enabled by cutting-edge CyberGIS and cyberinfrastructure. The platform leverages several existing capabilities including services for simplifying access to high-performance computing (HPC) resources, the US national HPC infrastructure, reusable geospatial workflow building blocks, and scalable, interactive computing environments to provide users with a web-based platform to carry out research and education workflows. The platform has been adopted by two I-GUIDE convergent science use cases to address their data wrangling challenges and resource-intensive computation needs.

In this virtual consulting office (VCO), we will provide an overview of the architecture and capabilities of the I-GUIDE platform that enable research workflows to be executed and reproduced. We will also demonstrate two example workflows from the two convergent science use cases and provide information on how users can begin to use the I-GUIDE platform for their own research.