A PPARC funded project

Tony LindeProgramme Manager

AG-SAG FM6 Programme Manager Report

Wed 25-May, 2005UCL

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TopicsCurrent status Technical development Deployment

Other projects/orgs VOTech IVOA Other VObs projects

AG-TAG interaction

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Technical Status (from KTN)

V1.1 will be a working, installable, configurable and reliable version of V1.0 Currently integrating refactored DSA component which includes better access to Solar/STP dataBug fixes being added continuously

(V1.0.1 imminent)

Documentation template complete … and real docs starting to appear

Need to radically simplify software.astrogrid.org before V1.1 releaseUser docs needed

starting to appear (on Wiki)

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Technical Priorities for Cycle02 (from KTN)

Complete automated installation and configuration tool 80% done already, needs completing

Add IVOA compliant Single Signon capability to components

including Authentication passingAdd IVOA-compliant VOStore interface to our FileManager and FileStore layers

in time for ADASS and interoperability demoRaise ACR to "fully deployable" statusAdd complex clientside "applets" to Workbench

Drag and Drop capability Query Builder Workflow Builder

Add support for IVOA compliant "VO Support Interfaces" to as many components as possible

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Deployment StatusLimited ‘live’ deployment No ‘live’ site in NAM demo

Starting dev-live separation Development grid UK-VO grid

Complete by v1.1 V1.1 will not complete until separate UK-VO

Issues: Site-specific hacks OS / Java / version / … specificity Installation documentation Ease of installation

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VOTech Status #1http://wiki.eurovotech.org/bin/view/VOTech/WebHome

Timeslip: Jan-Jun slipped to Apr-Sep Deadlines now end Sept

AG-SAG can prepare own input for AstroGrid submission to Design ReviewPersonnel: Portsmouth & Leeds: 18 mth ea Exeter: 12 mth from 2006 Edinburgh: transfer from AstroGrid: 33 mth Cambridge & Leicester: 30 mth ea

Recruitment underway

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VOTech Status #2Current priorities DS3: Infrastructure

Single signon VOStore trial/implementation VOSpace research

DS4: Tools As listed on wiki:

http://wiki.eurovotech.org/bin/view/VOTech/DS4Plan01 T1: multi-waveband image tool T2: best fitting T3: SED builder from archival data T4: positional cross matcher T5: access to theoretical data T6: robotic telescope interface T7: generic source extraction

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VOTech Status #3Current priorities (cont) DS5: Intelligent Resource Discovery

Investigate what is out there… Preliminary ontology

DS6: Data Exploration Tools investigation Access to grid resources KDE algorithm

Issues for AG-SAG Targets for contributed personnel Ideas for funded personnel (esp DS3/DS4)

need to persuade partners

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IVOA: post Interop meetingTechnical pov: the VObs is now real Seeing tools on top of working components Development of novel interfaces

AstroGrid is leader in couple of key areas VOSpace (MySpace) Security (design for SSO & access control) UWS (generic CEA) & other web service stds Registry (XQuery interface, full & ext-

capable)

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IVOA: AstroGrid involvement

AstroGrid lags in all other areas No input to standards processes No reference developments Not much recent involvement of AstroGrid scientists Not enough AstroGrid technicians involved

Science questions: E.g. ‘scientists will never want to fire off queries to

other than known and pre-selected datasets’ Bob Hanisch in VOQL workgroup Rejected idea of one query to many databases Had to back down so feature will not be included in

design of ADQL v1.0+ BUT: this was a key requirement of early AstroGrid

science cases – is it needed or not?

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IVOA: Cycle02+ prioritiesDesign SSO, VOStore

Standards Registry: schema & interface DM: catalogue GWS: UWS

Reference implementations DAL: SSA, SIA, SLA (possibly via DSA) DM: catalogue (via VODaX in JES) VOQL: full ADQL 1.0 (incl Units) in DSA GWS: refactor CEA as UWS VOEvent: whatever is developed

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Other VObs projectsRollout software to other VObs projects

Base their own developments on AstroGrid Contribute to AstroGrid developments

Add-ons Code branches

Take over aspects of AstroGrid? E.g. Portal development

Definite Russia VO (possibly August for dev grid) Science links (later)?

Likely China VO

Target Japan & ‘small projects’: India, Korea, …

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AG-TAG interactionMake-up of TAG Data providers / curators Application writers

Infrastructure (ex Starlink) Pipeline Tools Simulation, other theory

Grid involvement Software management

Later… External projects: VObs & non-astro

What about interaction with AG-SAG?

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Questions?