Theory sessions

Session I: Simulation datamodel

• presentation Simulation data model (GL)
  • analysis
  • relation to discovery: SNAP archive
  • relation to SNAP protocol: SNAP services
• Discussions on specific aspects of the model (All)
  • characterisation
  • relation to Semantics WG, use of ontologies/data dictionaries, controlled vocabularies etc
• validation of the model (Patrizia Manzato)

Session II: SNAP protocol

• overview (GL, representing Claudio Gheller)
• relation to simulaiton data model
• discovery/querying: Registry and/or DAL and/or ADQL
• SNAP services
  • download
  • cutout
  • (re)gridding
  • visualisation
  • custom

Session III: AOB

• Individual presentations
  • Nicolas Moreau: A generic interface to simulation codes, the Dalia protoype
  • Vincenzo Costa: Development of a Web accessible archive of data from cosmological simulations for the ITVO and correlated services in the framework of the PI2S2 project
  • Franck Le Petit: "We would like to present what we did to allow users to launch code through Astrogrid and to store results on MySpace. We would like to emphasize on what is do-able right now."

• Discussion regarding further projects