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Agenda Tuesday

status review / goals / scienceLunch + AGLIItn-05 reviewDinner at Coton 20.00 (share rides)

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Agenda Wednesday

0900 start Deployment, ArchitectureEGSO and AVO talksItn 06/07 plansBreakouts (Presntn, Data, Integn)1300 lunch1400 breakout reports1600 close

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Goals for this meeting

understand progress to datescope to completionItn-06 plans

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PL review

statusprogressnext steps

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Where are we ?

16 months into Phase Busing 23ish FTEsspent 2.7M (three-quarters of budget)

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achievements : research

political visibilitytechnology evaluationseveral impressive reportscontributions 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 demossome released software

but few toolsand integration hard

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achievements : deployment

no real data deploymentprimitive working systemno 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 15Project Plan : early JunePPARC review : July-August ?Design Reference Architecture : OctoberStart : Jan 2005

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the eightfold path

develop standards for data, metadata, data exchange and provenancedevelop a software infrastructure for data servicesestablish a physical grid of resources construct and maintain a Service and Resource Registryimplement a working VO system of real scientific use to astronomersprovide a user interface to that VO systemprovide or adapt a set of science user tools to work with the VOestablish 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 deliverAstroGrid-2 is not an excuse not a continuous programme

Descope if necessary : NOW

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Key tasks

finish componentspush IVOA standardsdeploy to UK data centres (July)deploy to AVO (Jan)publicise worldwide

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components

nothing newintegratemake robust and easy to installdocument

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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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Deploymentcan't wait for Itn-08 : start nowneed to work with Data Centresneeds real data, real machinesneeds stable s/wneeds different mentality

special WGuse 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-typesworld VO projects see E-typesdata centres see E-types

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Whats involved ?

code tidyingcomponent installation at DCsweb page design and build no new portal technology

real data : DCA installationreal machines : provided by DCsnetwork tuningtool integrationdocumentation and user guide

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Schedule

end April I5end July I6

D1 using I5E1

end Sept I7D2 using I6

end Dec I8D3 using I7E2