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A PPARC funded project
AstroGrid-2 Planning
Consortium meeting,
Dec 14-15, 2004
Edinburgh
Tony Linde
Programme Manager
Aims (from proposal)
Expand, revise and improve the core
infrastructure
Research and deploy new automated
resource discovery techniques
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AstroOntology
Research and deploy techniques in Grid
technology, visualisation and datamining
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AstroGrid Data Exploration Framework (ADEF)
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Issues
Key functional improvements
Approach
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Issues
Stability
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Components
Inter-component operation
Security
Engineering
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Product
Extensibility
Change control (in design & coding)
Interactions
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VOTech
EuroVO
IVOA
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Key functional improvements
Security
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Single signon
Inter-component trust
Authorisation
MySpace extensions
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Identifiers
New storage mechanisms
Database tables
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Other Functional
Improvements
GUI
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Workbench
Command line
Frameworks (with VOTech)
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Data mining
Visualization
Agent
Intelligent resource discovery (with VOTech)
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Approach
Start from architecture
All changes modeled first
Process
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SAG: set scientific priorities
TAG: set technical priorities
TSP: set iteration requirements
WGLs: outline design  model
Workgroups: detailed design, code & test
Integration Team: test & approval
Management team: decide baselines
Deployment team: baseline rollout
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