Dear collegues
this is a reminder.
The organisers would like to cordially invite you to register for
The Euro-VO DCA workshop
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"GRID and the Virtual Observatory"
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to be held in Garching, Germany.
April 9 - April 11 2008
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Please visit our web-site at:
http://www.si.inaf.it/eurovow2008/
for further details.
The Virtual Observatory (VObs) is rapidly evolving as a fundamental tool for the astronomical community. It may be seen as a Grid of federated astronomical databases. The VObs allows global electronic access to the available astronomical data archives of space and ground-based observatories, and to simulation databases as well. It also aims to enable data analysis techniques through world-wide network access, state-of-the-art analysis tools, and a coordinating entity that provides common standards. To process the huge amount of data residing in the VObs it is necessary to provide an adequate amount of resources. Providing these resources in a convenient way is the aim of the Grid middleware. The combination of the VObs and Grid technology is the right answer to this issue, offering a complete and integrated working environment to the Astronomical and Astrophysical community.
Within this framework, it appears as extremely important to interconnect the VObs and the different Grid infrastructures being deployed and that will be deployed in the future. The strong investment in this kind of facilities, both at the national and European levels, provides a geographically distributed e- infrastructure available to European astronomers. It is crucial to make this infrastructure available, usable and useful to all users of the VObs. Actually some astrophysical applications, mainly in the theoretical and modeling fields, are already making use of the computing power the computational Grid is able to offer.
Therefore, the main goal of this workshop is to lay the groundwork to build the bridge between the VObs and the standard Grid infrastructures making developers from the different fields meet and exchange experiences and solutions.
To achieve its goals for the workshop targets three main audiences:
This workshop aims at contributing to the development of new Grid- aware astronomical applications and Data Centres.
Workshop Objectives
This workshop is organised in the frame of the EuroVO Data Center
Alliance FP6 (http://www.euro-vo.org/pub/dca/)
funded coordinated action.
The workshop is organized "back-to-back" with the Euro-VO DCA
workshop Theory in the Virtual Observatory" [TBC], which will take
place from April 7-9, 2008, also in Garching. It is assumed that many
participants will want to attend both workshops. Information about
that workshop can be found at the same website.
Scientific Advisory Committee:
Andrew Belikov (NOVA), Art Carlsson (MPE), Harry Enke (AIP), Gerald
Lemson (MPG), Masatoshi Ohishi (NAO Japan), Pedro Osuna (ESAC), Guy
Rixon (IoA), Enrique Solano (LAEFF), Andre Schaaff (CDS), Juan de
Dios Santander Vela (IAA-CSIC), Ruben Alvarez Timon (ESAC), G.
Taffoni (INAF Trieste), Edwin Valentyn (NOVA)
Local organizing committee:
A. Carlsson (MPE), J. Kim (MPE), G. Lemson (MPE), G. Taffoni (INAF
Trieste), J. Zuther (MPE)