Hi Nic,
At 21:17 03/07/11 +0100, Nicholas Walton wrote:
>i note that at the last GGF8 (seattle in June) charlie catlett, in summing
>up, called for more application areas to come forward and participate in
>the GGF. speaking to satoshi matsuoka, the area director for the ggf
>Applications, Programming Models and Environments Area (APME) (see
>http://www.ggf.org/7_APM/APS.htm), was also glad to hear that astronomy
>may participate. (note that there is a life science grid research group,
>and that HEP had a BOF in seattle). astronomy would thus be the third app
>area.
The JVO team has been collaborating with Matsuoka for long, and he told to us this idea some months ago. The GGF needs a prominent application area to demonstrate the power of the GRID technology, and he believes astronomy (I would say Images on astronomy) is the best to attract many people to the GRID world.
Life science is strongly related with the business, and it is strongly
required to
have very secure environment to protect personal informations. HEP is waiting
for the completion of the Large Hadron Collider a CERN, and not many people
in the world are interested in High Energy Physics. Astronomy already
has huge data set, and there are so many amateur astronomers and astronomy
fans in the world. Astronomical images are more attractive than those in high
energy physics, as you can easily understand. The fundamental GRID techniques
to be used in astronomical VOs can also be implemented to business applications
with some modifications and upgrades. These are the backgrounds why Matsuoka
hopes to establish such a group in GGF, I think.
Cheers,
Masatoshi Received on 2003-08-03Z09:25:13