1. 1 eScience in Astronomy: Grid & VO GAVO III KickOff eScience in Astronomy: VO & GRID eScience: making the most advanced tools of IT available to scientists supercomputers data mining semantic web && more defining the advanced challenges for IT development (astronomy) data streams of > 100 Gbit/s distributed data sets > 100 Petabytes multi-layered, multi-dimensional

2. 2 eScience in Astronomy: Grid & VO GAVO III KickOff eScience in Astronomy: VO & GRID Grid History: development was driven by High Energy Physics -only few data sources - clearly structured data - well known methods of data handling: (Monte Carlo simulations with data slices) Earth & climate science with a narrowed set of data followed suit

3. 3 eScience in Astronomy: Grid & VO GAVO III KickOff eScience in Astronomy: VO & GRID Pre VO history: Multiple archives Multiple data sources Insufficient data exchange protocols (except FITS) Scientific methods not shaping up to data sizes

4. 4 eScience in Astronomy: Grid & VO GAVO III KickOff eScience in Astronomy: VO & GRID VO history: Multi wave length view Standards for publishing data Standards for exchanging data New tools building on these standards Concepts as VOSpace, SingleSignOn Focus on Domain perspective (AstroRG in OGF)

5. 5 eScience in Astronomy: Grid & VO GAVO III KickOff eScience in Astronomy: VO & GRID AstroGrid-D: Experience in running the community grid Basic infrastructure components ready for real science cases Heading for a sustainable way to run the grid for Astronomy in Germany Smoothing the path to Grid usage for the community

6. 6 eScience in Astronomy: Grid & VO GAVO III KickOff eScience in Astronomy: VO & GRID AstroGrid-D: Development focus for new proposal Virtual Data Center  Distributed data (storage locations)  Based on grid-infrastructure  Providing advanced methods  data-stream management  publish / subscribe facilities  Long Term Archiving  Efficient data processing

7. 7 eScience in Astronomy: Grid & VO GAVO III KickOff eScience in Astronomy: VO & GRID Cooperation with GAVO (VDZ-Proposal) Indexing and Metadata extraction service Combining VOSpace and Grid Storage VOQL support for VDZ Tools collection combining IVOA registry and Grid registry

8. 8 eScience in Astronomy: Grid & VO GAVO III KickOff eScience in Astronomy: VO & GRID Cooperation with GAVO Publishing new archives (+ mining tools) Simulation archives Combined service offers (e.g.: LBTB data) Running VO tools on Grid (T. Rauch’s Spectra service) Supporting German consortia for LOFAR, LSST, PanSTARRS on data management and data minig issues