Agenda Tuesday

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Agenda Tuesday

• status review / goals / science
• Lunch AGLI
• Itn-05 review
• Dinner at Coton 20.00 (share rides)

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Agenda Wednesday

• 0900 start
• Deployment, Architecture
• EGSO and AVO talks
• Itn 06/07 plans
• Breakouts (Presntn, Data, Integn)
• 1300 lunch
• 1400 breakout reports
• 1600 close

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Goals for this meeting

• understand progress to date
• scope to completion
• Itn-06 plans

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PL review

• status
• progress
• next steps

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Where are we ?

• 16 months into Phase B
• using 23ish FTEs
• spent 2.7M (three-quarters of budget)

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achievements research

• political visibility
• technology evaluation
• several impressive reports
• contributions to standards

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achievements engineering

• bulk of engine room components
• portal, myspace, community, data access, workflow
• most of these being done by no other VO projects
• contributions to working demos
• some released software
• but few tools
• and integration hard

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achievements deployment

• no real data deployment
• primitive working system
• no users

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news

• new Finance Officer (John Pye)
• Astrogrid2 funded
• SSVO joined forces
• Total AG2 4.0M 2005-2007
• VOTECH proposal submitted to FP6
• may fund 6 staff
• AVO demo January first science

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AstroGrid-2 plans

• Design study underway May 15
• Project Plan early June
• PPARC review July-August ?
• Design Reference Architecture October
• Start Jan 2005

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the eightfold path

• develop standards for data, metadata, data
  exchange and provenance
• develop a software infrastructure for data
  services
• establish a physical grid of resources
• construct and maintain a Service and Resource
  Registry
• implement a working VO system of real scientific
  use to astronomers
• provide a user interface to that VO system
• provide or adapt a set of science user tools to
  work with the VO
• establish a leading position for the UK in VO
  work

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progress (1-4)

• develop standards for data, metadata, data
  exchange and provenanceon track through IVOA
• develop a software infrastructure for data
  servicesgood progress
• establish a physical grid of resources hardly
  started needs DC co-operation
• construct and maintain a Service and Resource
  Registrygood progress

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progress (5-8)

• implement a working VO system of real scientific
  use to astronomersnot seriously attempted yet
• provide a user interface to that VO systembasic
  technical components gooduser friendly skin
  thou jesteth
• provide or adapt a set of science user tools to
  work with the VOprovide officially abandoned
  due to lack of resourceadapt good progress
• establish a leading position for the UK in VO
  workexcellent but could still go backwards !

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Delivery Philosophy

• AstroGrid-1 will deliver
• AstroGrid-2 is not an excuse
• not a continuous programme
• Descope if necessary NOW

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Key tasks

• finish components
• push IVOA standards
• deploy to UK data centres (July)
• deploy to AVO (Jan)
• publicise worldwide

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components

• nothing new
• integrate
• make robust and easy to install
• document

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Two Projects

• AstroGrid-A 70 done
• generic VO s/w suite
• contributions to standards programme
• AstroGrid-B 10 done
• working implementation for UK astronomers
• physical grid of resources

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Deployment

• can't wait for Itn-08 start now
• need to work with Data Centres
• needs real data, real machines
• needs stable s/w
• needs different mentality
• special WG
• use Itn-05 software

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Releases

• distinguish types of release
• internal s/w suite releases I
• external s/w suite releases E
• physical deployments D
• AGSAG see only D-types
• world VO projects see E-types
• data centres see E-types

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Whats involved ?

• code tidying
• component installation at DCs
• web page design and build
• no new portal technology
• real data DCA installation
• real machines provided by DCs
• network tuning
• tool integration
• documentation and user guide

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Schedule

• end April I5
• end July I6 D1 using I5 E1
• end Sept I7 D2 using I6
• end Dec I8 D3 using I7
• E2