1. A PPARC funded project PM Report Grid Steering Committee MRC, London 18-Feb-2004

2. 2 PM Report, GSC meeting Status since Jul-2003! Code development Milestones summary Project management Risk assessment External interactions AstroGrid-2

3. 3 18-Feb-2004PM Report, GSC meeting Code development: Successes Workflow JES: since Itn03 Templates: Itn04 BPEL subset: Itn02: to be revised Data centre Merlin, 6dF, INT WFS, USNO-B: ongoing MySQL, Sybase, SQL Server CDS VizieR, NVO Conesearch Incorporated IVOA ADQL standard **Trial only**: need archive take-up

4. 4 18-Feb-2004PM Report, GSC meeting Code development: Successes Portal Cocoon-based approach: Itn04.1 Registry XML-based, XQuery usage: Itn03: to be improved Conforms to IVOA RM 1.0, schema 0.9: Itn04 Community Authorisation, permissions: Itn03/4  (easy upgrade to certificate based authorisation: Itn06 + )

5. 5 18-Feb-2004PM Report, GSC meeting Code development: Successes GDW Uses OGSA-DAI & AstroGrid Web Service: Itn04 Tools ACE: Sextractor: Itn02, updated Itn04.1 HyperZ: Itn04.1 XMatch: Itn04.1  Includes VOTable merge facility

6. 6 18-Feb-2004PM Report, GSC meeting Code development: Problem areas Portal Not user-friendly screens  Itn05/06: redesign all screens  Itn07 + : focus on usability MySpace Difficult to integrate Reliance: needs to be optional  Itn05: design review, disentangle from components  Itn06: refactor

7. 7 18-Feb-2004PM Report, GSC meeting Milestones summary PortalAll screens delayed Delivered generalised template Workflow, JESOn target AstroPassConcept delivered; Itn06: certificate-based scheme Data CentreOn target RegistryDelivered IVOA standards CommunityOn target ToolsIn advance: several tools delivered Generalised code enables many tools VisualisationIn advance: via client- & server-side integration of TopCat MySpaceDelayed See http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/Astrogrid/IterationDeliverablesR02 for comment on original milestones.http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/Astrogrid/IterationDeliverablesR02

8. 8 18-Feb-2004PM Report, GSC meeting Project Management Successes Single team, multiple workgroups Dynamic assignment Iterative development Problem areas all of above! Key: continuous integration

9. 9 18-Feb-2004PM Report, GSC meeting Risk Assessment see http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/Astrogrid/ProjectRisksR03 http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/Astrogrid/ProjectRisksR03 Key issues: AstroGrid-2 Grid  Web Services Resource Framework Uprated risks: Data centre uptake Loss of development personnel Downgraded risks: Grid & OGSA-DAI impacts Loss of senior personnel New risks: WSRF focus of GT4

10. 10 18-Feb-2004PM Report, GSC meeting External interactions AVO Demo IVOA Registry ADQL Data Access Layer Data Model

11. 11 18-Feb-2004PM Report, GSC meeting AstroGrid-2 Aspects Extension  Infrastructure  Grid (GT4 + ) integration  Intelligent resource discovery (semantic grid) Additional components  Data exploration  Agents: eStar integration  Client-based access: VO Workbench  Design Study

12. 12 18-Feb-2004PM Report, GSC meeting AstroGrid-2… Design study: Goals Add to infrastructure Integrate with existing/planned services D rather than R Minimise staff loss Future maintenance AstroGrid Software Foundation?  cF http://www.apache.org/foundation/http://www.apache.org/foundation/