GgfIvoaMay07WorkShop < IVOA

---+ IVOA - OGF Astro-RG Work Shop @ OGF20

---++ Workshop Title

Astronomy @ OGF: Standards and Adoption in Real Systems

@ [[http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_ogf20.php][OGF 20]]  May 2007, Manchester, UK

Materials for OGF20 at [TBC]

Early registration closes 17 March 2007 - see http://www.ogf.org/OGF20/events_regstrtn_ogf20.php

---++ Agenda and Talks

*note: draft programme - times subject to change*

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| *Date/Time*  | *What*  | *Who*  | *Talk* |
| ||||
| *Session 1* ||||
| *Requirements for Astronomy: the Domain Perspective* ||||
| 09:30 | Welcome and Workshop Goals  | Harry Enke  | |
| 09:35 | Science drivers for a Virtual Observatory  | Nic Walton  | | 
| 09.50 | Pervasive Grids for the Astronomy Domain: the view from GIN-CG  | Erwin Laure | |
| ||||
| *Astronomy Case Studies*  |||| 
| 10.05 | AstroGrid: The UK's VO System  | Keith Noddle  |   | 
| 10.20 | Networks of Robotic Telescopes  | Rick Hessman  |  |
| 10.35 | <nop>AstroGrid-D (The German Astronomy Community Grid (GACG))  | Harry Enke | |
| 10.50 | LOFAR  | Holtjes  | |
| 11.00-11.30 | _COFFEE_  |||
| *Session 2* ||||
| *Grid Interoperability - Standards in Use*  ||||
| *Astronomical Workflows*  ||||
| 11.00 | Taverna - from Biology to Astronomy  | June Finch (TBC)  |   |
| 11.15 | Kepler - workflows for the NVO  | Altintas (TBC)  |   |
| *Application and Data Interfaces*  ||||
| 11.30 | <nop>AstroRuntime - VO Service Interface  | Noel Winstanley |   |
| 11.45 | The Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA) | Gabriele Allen  | |
| 12.00 | <nop>GridSphere - Cactus | Radke |    |
| 12.15 | Stellaris | Hoegqvist |   |
| 12.30-13.30 | _LUNCH_  |||
| *Session 3* ||||
| *Operational Virtual Observatory and Grid Services*  ||||
| 13.30 | The Security Challenge | David Chadwick |   |
| 13.45 | <nop>PlanckGrid and EGEE | Fabio Pasian  |   |
| 14.00 | VO Services on <nop>NaREGI  | Masatoshi Ohishi  |   | 
| 14.15 | <nop>CosmoGrid  | Lery |  |
| 14.30 | The challenge of large simulations: utilising GRAPE | Spurzem  |   |
| 14.45 | Workshop Summary and Next Steps: Discussion  | Geoffrey Fox and IVOA.NicholasWalton  |   |
| 15.00 | _Close_  |||
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---++ 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, Potsdam, Germany
   * T Roeblitz, Postdam, 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 <nop>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.

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-- IVOA.NicholasWalton - 04 Mar 2007     


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