IVOATheorySimDB < IVOA

<H1><noautolink>SimDB</noautolink> = Simulation Database</H1>
   * [[IVOA.IVOATheorySimDB_WGs][page]] describing why we think !SimDB development needs explicit input from different working groups.

We have split up the former SNAP effort of the Theory Interest Group in two separate ones: !SimDB(=Simulation Database) and !SimDAP(=Simulation Data Access Protocol). Here we describe !SimDB.

!SimDB is a specification for a Simulation (meta-)Database (could be called Simulation Registry, -Portal).

!SimDB is an online service offering query capabilities to a database containing meta data describing results of simulations and their post-processing as well as about the codes used in these algorithms.
Currently the simulations are still supposed to be those that produce a representation of 3+1D space, (possibly reduced spatial dimension through assumptions of symmetry). This is open for discussion.

A !SimDB also contains information about web services giving access to the simulation results themselves. The more detailed specification of such services is the goal of the !SimDAP-specification.




-- IVOA.HerveWozniak - 23 Jun 2008 




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