CADC/ALMA computing workshop

Venue

Thursday 11.06.2015, 10:00 - 17:00 ESO headquarters, room Fornax (old Council room)

Friday 12.06.2015, 10:00 - 12:00 ESO headquarters, room Fornax (old Council room)

Friday 12.06.2015, 12:00 - 16:00 ESO headquarters, room Columba (Skylight room)

Agenda

Thursday
10:00 - 11:00	Extending the role of the data centre: the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC) experience with distributed cloud computing and virtual observatory services	Séverin Gaudet
11:00 - 12:15	General discussion
12:15 - 12:30	ESO status and way forward
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:00	ALMA status and way forward
14:00 - 14:20	CADC status and way forward (topics not covered by the presentation)
14:20 - 14:40	Coffee
14:40 - 17:30	Possible work alignments 1 - Backend
	Data modeling (ObsCore, SIAPv2, TAP)
	Source categories, redshifts, restframe searches, special objects (coldes, darkes, brightest, ...)
	Data access (DataLink, AccessData/cut-outs, Download Manger, Download script+password security, !VOspace, astroquery, storage systems)
17:30 -	Transfer to the "Biergarten am Chinesischen Turm" and dinner (U-Bahn Gieselastraße, directions)
Friday
09:50 - 10:00	ESO software development principles	Thomas Bierwirth
10:00 - 10:10	ALMA software development principles	Alisdair Manning
10:10 - 12:00	Possible work alignments 2 - Frontend
	ESA interface demo, Galex interface demo: how do we want to search astronomical data?
	AladinLite integration, footprint display, HiPS & MOC and automatic regeneration
	Solr/Elasticsearch (getting rid of the search button)
	Histograms/Facets
	Row grouping
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 15:00	Possible work alignments 3 - Frontend
	Votable viewer improvements, interaction with AladinLite
	Provenance and data hierarchy
	VO interoperability (SAMP, Aladin, topcat)
	Visualization (CARTA)
	Solar system search
15:00 - 16:00	Possible work alignments 4 - Exotics
	Usage statistics: what to record and what to report?
	Generic, modular interface code, python access?