Astro-RG IG Session

Weds 17 May 2006: 11.00-12.30

There will be a meeting of this group to assess IVOA standards interaction with those from the GGF.

Of particular interest will be feedback fromt he joint IVOA/GGF astro-RG workshop to be held in Tokyo, earlier in May 2006 - see GgfIvoaMay06WorkShop for details.

Presentations

• Opening remarks in the plenary session: [.pdf]

Agenda

1. Opening Remarks (NicholasWalton)
2. Comments on the IVOA/GGF workshop (MasatoshiOhishi)
3. Key Areas of IVOA/GGF Interface (NicholasWalton)
   • Authorisation (GuyRixon)
   • GGF @ IVOA
4. Audit of VO Project Grid work (NicholasWalton)
   • UK
   • USA
   • Japan
   • Italy [.ppt]
   • France
   • ESA [.ppt]
   • others
5. Next GGF: planning for IVOA/GGF Workshop 2

Notes

• Notes taken by AlasdairAllan: [.rtf]

Summary for Plenary 2

• meeting well attended
  • groups representing those interfacing to distributed compute grids (e.g. US, UK, Italy, ESA, etc)
• Focus on Grid stds: AAA, Workflows
• Next meeting will look at experience of projects with interfacing to national/regional grid infrastructures
  • AstroGrid: NGS/EGEE
  • ESA: ESAGrid
  • I-VO: EGEE
  • NVO: TeraGrid
• Aim to increase involvement with Grid Std community at IVOA - initial focus AAA

Documents

• Masatoshi Ohishi slides on GGF17/IVOA Workshop: [.pdf]
• Reagan Moore analysis talk of IVOA services: [.ppt]
• GGF17 Astro-RG update session presentations: Moore Walton
• Giuliano Taffoni proposal for interoperability between Grids and the VO [.pdf]
• INAF proposal for Astro-RG [.ppt]