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AG2 Cycle-1 Planning meeting

AG1 feedbackAG2 and VOTECH statusCycle-1 plans

08 -Feb-2005 Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester 2

Ag1 feedback

strong points MySpace Workflow Applications integration

weak no stable system UI hard to work with too complicated no "working system with real data"

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implications

long term : better infr., new featuresmedium term : re-centre on applicationsshort term : rollout product AND deployment

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AG2 methodology (1)

planning Cycle .NE. development cycleplanning Cycle : plan-doc is bible six months top-level goals does not evolve visible to outside

Development Cycle flexible as necessary normally visible only inside

08 -Feb-2005 Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester 5

AG2 methodology (2)

Oversight : PPARC AG oversight committeePolicy, Strategy, Resources : AGLI

track progress monthly versus Cycle-Plan

Strategy Development : Man Team ProgMan, ProjMan, ProjSci, ProjLead helped by informal Senior Engineers Group no TSP

Advice : SAG, TAG

08 -Feb-2005 Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester 6

VOTECH status

contract negotiations still underway 3 years money but 4 years windowfirst new post at Portsmouth : Garry Smithfinal UK resource planning tomorrowfirst TAP and DS meetings planned

08 -Feb-2005 Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester 7

Euro-VO

March 17 proposal to fund DCAESO and ESA commting resource for VOFCScience Advisory Structure plannedMOU underway

08 -Feb-2005 Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester 8

VOTECH - AG2 relationship

align goals, work-structure, and planning cycleVOTECH has Assessment and Design focusAG2 has engineering focus for UK AND Euro deployment

but some PPARC-AG2 effort added to VOTECHnames named soon

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AG overall goals

develop open standardsdevelop a software infrastructure develop a registry demonstrate physical grid of resourcesimplement working VO system based around key UK databases.

provide UI to that system provide or adapt science user tools

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AG2 specific goals

expand, revise, improve core infrastructureprovide a suite of science user toolsresearch and deploy new automated resource discovery techniques techniques in Grid technology techniques in visualisation and datamining

create AstroGrid Data Exploration Framework (ADEF)

(support for UK Data Centre Alliance) (develop outreach sw for schools and public)

08 -Feb-2005 Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester 11

Cycle-1 goals : ROLLOUT

Contbns to AVO demoSW product releasePhysical DeploymentImproved interfaceSimple new toolsDocumentPublicise

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Cycle-1 goals : key milestones

Jan 25 AVO demoFeb 1-2 and 8-10 : Cycle-1 PlanningFeb 25 : AGOCMar 1 : AGLI quarterlyApr 04-09 : NAMApr 18-20 : Training workshopsw release ?deployed system release ?

08 -Feb-2005 Andy Lawrence : Planning Meeting, Leicester 13

Greater AstroGrid

deployment can't be done by AG alonework with data centresbut must be co-ordinated by AGAG was child of DCsnow re-unite and form "Greater AstroGrid"

FIN