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IVOA - OGF Astro-RG Work Shop @ OGF20 - 7th May 2007

Workshop Title

Astronomy @ OGF: Standards and Adoption in Real Systems

@ OGF 20 Wed 9th May 2007, Manchester, UK

Materials for OGF20 at [TBC]

Early registration closes 16 March 2007 - see http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php

Agenda and Talks

note: draft programme (date confirmed) - talk times subject to change

Date/Time What Who Talk
 
Session 1
Requirements for Astronomy: the Domain Perspective
10:30 Welcome and Workshop Goals Harry Enke  
10:40 Science drivers for a Virtual Observatory Nic Walton  
11:00 Pervasive Grids for the Astronomy Domain: the view from GIN-CG Erwin Laure  
 
Astronomy Case Studies
11.20 AstroGrid: The UK's VO System Keith Noddle  
11.40 Networks of Robotic Telescopes Rick Hessman  
12.00 AstroGrid-D (The German Astronomy Community Grid (GACG)) Harry Enke  
12.15 LOFAR Holtjes  
12.30-14.00 LUNCH
Session 2
Grid Interoperability - Standards in Use
Astronomical Workflows
14.00 Taverna - from Biology to Astronomy Katy Wolstencroft (OMII)  
14.15 Kepler - workflows for the NVO Ilkay Altintas (TBC)  
Application and Data Interfaces
14.30 AstroRuntime - VO Service Interface Noel Winstanley  
14.45 The Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA) Gabriele Allen  
15.00 GridSphere - Cactus Radke  
15.15 Stellaris Hoegqvist  
15.30-16.00 COFFEE
Session 3
Operational Virtual Observatory and Grid Services
16.00 The Security Challenge David Chadwick  
16.15 IAA for the VO Guy Rixon  
16.30 PlanckGrid and EGEE Fabio Pasian  
16.45 VO Services on NaREGI Masatoshi Ohishi  
17.00 CosmoGrid Lery  
17.15 The challenge of large simulations: utilising GRAPE Spurzem  
17.30-18.00 COFFEE
Session 4
Astronomy Systems in Use
18.00 AstroGrid NicholasWalton
18.15 Dynamo D. Elstner, AIP (TBC)
Workshop Summary and Next Steps: Discussion
18.30 Panel led by Geoffrey Fox and NicholasWalton to include OGF Group Chairs, discussion to focus on bridging domain specific and generic infrastructure requirements  
19.30 Close

Workshop organizer names and affiliations

The workshop is jointly organised by AstroGrid and Astro-RG OGF group, and the German AstroGrid-D project.

On behalf of AstroGrid and OGF-Astro-RG

  • Nicholas A Walton, IoA, Univ of Cambridge, UK (Co-Chair Astro-RG)
  • Neil Chue Hong, EPCC, Scotland (Co-Chair BYTEIO-WG)
  • Dave Chadwick, Kent, UK (Co-Chair OGSA-AUTHZ-WG)
  • Arun Jagatheesan, SDSC, San Diego, USA (Co-Chair GFS-WG)
  • Erwin Laure, CERN (Co-Chair GIN-CG)
  • Reagan Moore, SDSC, San Diego, USA (Co-Chair PE-RG)
  • Steven Newhouse, OMII, Southampton, UK (Co-Chair OGSA-BES-WG)
  • Mastoshi Ohishi, NAOJ, Tokyo, Japan (Co-Chair Astro-RG)
  • Guy Rixon, IoA, Univ of Cambridge, UK (Chair IVOA Grid-Web Services WG)
  • David Wallom, Oxford, UK (Co-Chair PGS-RG)

Sponsoring Groups:

  • Astronomy Applications Astro-RG
  • Preservation Environments PE-RG
  • Production Grid Services Research Group PGS-RG
  • Grid Interoperability Now Community Group GIN-CG

On behalf of AstroGrid-D (The German Astronomy Community Grid (GACG))

  • Harry Enke, AIP, Potsdam, Germany
  • Thomas Roeblitz, Zuse Institute, Berlin, Germany

Scope and Content

Building upon the first joint International Virtual Astronomy Alliance (IVOA - see http://www.ivoa.net)/ Global Grid Forum (GGF) workshop which was held May 2006 at GGF17 in Tokyo, this workshop will critically assess how Virtual Observatory services in Astronomy are interfacing with, and deployed upon, distributed computing infrastructures on a number of scales, ranging from large scale grids such as TeraGrid, to smaller scale Campus Grids, and locally provided astronomy specific compute infrastructure.

The OGF Astronomy Applications Research Group has analysed key focus areas where utilisation of OGF provided standards are important to the successful deployment of applications and services for the astronomy domain.

This workshop brings together technical and operational leaders and experts from the astronomy domain, and those developing the key standards (e.g. in data, applications, security) such that experience of use in practise can reconciled with developments in those standard areas. The feedback from this exemplar science domain will highlight the opportunities and difficulties presented by take up of OGF standard compliant implementations.

Additionally, this workshop brings together early adopters of Grid technology from astronomic science and prospective users of the community to let them exchange the state of the art in scientific Grid Computing and discuss requirements of Grid middleware for future astronomic scenarios such as the integration of robotic telescopes.


-- NicholasWalton - 18 Mar 2007


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