(Near) Future Plans for NGAS:
•Received
detailed requirements from archive operations.
•Enhance
NGAS WEB Management Interfaces.
•Enhancement
of services for operation in cluster (extended proxy mode).
•Enhancement
of installation utilities.
•Enhancement
of unit tests (simulation of archive cluster operation).
•Implement
load balancing/archive cluster operation for high availability/high data
rates (VST/ΩCam: up to 300 GB/night, VISTA/VistaCAM up to 1 TB/night
- TBC).
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•Support for advanced data processing,
utilizing an NGAS Cluster as a parallel processing engine (specify complex
recipes, which are executing parallel data processing) – will be analyzed in the
near future.
•Support for the Astrophysical Virtual
Observatory/GRID?