1. 1 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Meeting Goals review achievements review architecture identify targets for AG2 and VOTECH gaps technology changes components for re-engineering

2. 2 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Tuesday AM : overviews / guest talks LUNCH 1230-1330 PM : Demos / Tech detail / planning DINNER : Beluga, Chambers St 1930

3. 3 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Dinner NeSC

4. 4 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Wednesday 0930 start Architecture review and analysis 1530 finish

6. 6 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh State of the Union AstroGrid scorecard The global VO AstroGrid today

7. AstroGrid scorecard

8. 8 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh achievements since april meeting Integration Deployment Architecture VOTECH funded kick-off meeting November

9. 9 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh AstroGrid timeline Apr 01Proposal to PPARC

10. 10 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh words from april 2001 proposal (3.1) LONG TERM PERSPECTIVE The vision of a "Virtual Observatory" only makes eventual sense as a global entity (GVO ?)..... It is our impression that such aspirations will only become reality on a timescale of perhaps 6 years or so, but that the components and toolkits will start to develop much sooner. Likewise, the underlying computer science will on the one hand evolve as we try to apply it, and on the other hand will be looking for challenging applications to influence its evolution. In this perspective we believe that a major but short-term (three year) project is the correct first step, as after this we must take stock and re-group. The UK cannot build the GVO by itself, but we should not wait either. Our overall aims are therefore (i) to provide a working system for UK astronomers to exploit key databases, (ii) to develop tools and methods that the international community will see as key contributions to an eventual GVO, and (iii) to learn technical lessons as fast as possible that will influence the design of an eventual GVO.

11. 11 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh AstroGrid timeline Apr 01Proposal to PPARC

12. 12 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh AstroGrid timeline Apr 01Proposal to PPARC Oct 01 - Dec 02Phase A study Jan 03 - Dec 04Phase B construction ------------------------------------------------- Jan 05 - Dec 07AstroGrid2

13. 13 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh AstroGrid timeline Oct 01 - Dec 02Phase A study Technology assessment Jan 03 - Dec 04Phase B construction Infrastructure components : s/w beta release First deployment : beta tester release Jan 05 - Dec 06AstroGrid2 re-engineering more compts multiple deployments next wave R&D (VOTECH)

14. 14 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Promises to PPARC : Phase B goals the eightfold path...

15. 15 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh goal check (1-4) develop standards for data, metadata, data exchange and provenance done with IVOA develop a software infrastructure for data services done but still growing establish a physical grid of resources done with DC help; modest start construct and maintain a Service and Resource Registry done

16. 16 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh goal check (5-8) implement a working VO system of real scientific use to astronomers half done; beta test stage provide a user interface to that VO system technical components : done user friendly skin : half done provide or adapt a set of science user tools to work with the VO provide : officially abandoned due to lack of resource adapt : done establish a leading position for the UK in VO work done

17. the global VO

18. key AstroGrid contributions

19. 19 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh publishing metaphor experiments/facilities are authors data centres are publishers VO portals are shops end-users are readers VO infrastructure is distribution system.

20. 20 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh work to do agree standards build VO-aware data services build VO-aware tools build software glue construct deployments, get users

21. 21 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh progress agree standards excellent progress through IVOA build VO-aware data services build VO-aware tools build software glue

22. 22 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh International VO alliance (IVOA) http://www.ivoa.net

23. 23 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh progress agree standards excellent progress through IVOA build VO-aware data services data centres upgrading worldwide build VO-aware tools a few examples : CEA should allow to take off build software glue Registry, Workflow, VOspace... sign-on to come

24. 24 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh deployments and users several hand crafted-demos some real science done US-NVO has some simple production websites OpenSkyQuery / DataScope / YourSky AstroGrid portal will allow more complex jobs first users starting to play AVO SWG; AstroGrid AGSAG NVO summer school

25. 25 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh does it look like a VO yet ? data interoperability resource interoperability data integration single sign on complex jobs

26. 26 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh data interoperability good progress data access : VOtable, SIAP, SSAP semantic dictionary : UCDs will need refreshing does it look like a VO yet ?

27. 27 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh resource interoperability good progress Resource and Service Metadata harvestable registries standard query language ADQL progress on WS interfaces storage sharing (MySpace) does it look like a VO yet ?

28. 28 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh data integration not really there; only plain cone-searches really science / algorithm problem not IT need real semantics - not just types UCNs; units; grammar concentrate on operations not philosophy does it look like a VO yet ?

29. catalogue xmatch is the easy bit...

30. federating these is a bit more subtle Shocks seen in the X- ray Heavy elements seen in the optical Dust seen in the IR Relativistic electrons seen in the radio

31. as is these... Coronal mass ejection imaged by space- based solar observatory Effect detected hours later by satellites and ground radar

32. 32 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh data integration not really there; only plain cone-searches really science / algorithm problem not IT need real semantics - not just types UCNs; units; grammar concentrate on operations not philosophy does it look like a VO yet ?

33. 33 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh single sign on limited IVOA attention (GWS-WG) AstroGrid shell in place need to cohere with rest of academia Shibboleth looks like the winner ? does it look like a VO yet ?

34. 34 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh complex jobs : workflow negligible IVOA attention AstroGrid : workflow engine and UI AstroGrid : application integration does it look like a VO yet ?

35. AstroGrid today

36. 36 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh AstroGrid strands Standards development R&D Infrastructure software product Deployment

37. 37 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Customers Standards : other VO projects R&D : ourselves, other VO projects Software : DCs, VO projects, tools writers Deployment : astronomical community

38. 38 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Software product aims product quality mix-and-match plug-and-play publisher help (PAL and CEA)

39. 39 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Secret Weapons MySpace Workflow Application integration : CEA

40. 40 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Deployment today Registry, Workflow, MySpace, Portal Distributed data, storage, and services Leicester, Geneva, MSSL, Edinburgh, Cambridge, ESO Querying, xmatching, cpu-intensive analysis VO-aware applications e.g. Sextractor, HyperZ, moviemaker

41. 41 14-Dec-2004Andy Lawrence : AstroGrid Consortium Meeting, Edinburgh Issues Stability Useability Missing components IAA, scripting, workbench, grid services Improved functionality intelligent resource discovery ambitious data mining services using GridPower

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