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AstDatCenTech Discussion Schedule v1.1 ====================================== Thursday April 18th ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 09:30 morning session ====================== Welcome -------- - Aim of workshop (Frossie Economou, NOAO) Round-table brief description of participants' facilities (10-15 min each) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Data sources (telecopes etc) - Type of data (imaging, spectroscopy etc) - Size of holdings (volume, number of files) - Type of products (catalogues etc) - Future plans and problems - User-facing services 10:30 break ============ System configuration management -------------------------------- - Configuration & deployment with Puppet & Foreman (Josh Hoblitt, NOAO) - Round table discussion: Managing large numbers of systems; bare metal or VMs? In-house or third party resources? Data Storage (part I) ---------------------- - Serving data from geographically distributed stores (Severin Gaudet, CADC) 12:00 lunch break (walk to UA Student Union) ============================================= 13:30 afternoon session ======================== Data Processing Infrastructure ------------------------------- - Experiences with Condor and Xseed (Frank Valdes, NOAO) - Round table discussion: Processing workflows VO Services ------------ - The CADC VOSpace Implementation (Pat Dowler, CADC) - Round table discussion: Popular VO services 15:00 break ============ Source code control and testing (part I) ----------------------------------------- - Database test harness and system QA (Brian Thomas, NOAO) - Round table discussion: Software and system testing and deployment processes Source code control and testing (part II) ------------------------------------------ - Software licensing: A cautionary tale (Tim Jenness, CCAT) - Round table discussion: Who publishes their software? Is code re-use a pipe dream? 16:00 end ========== 18:30 Dinner at Old Pueblo Grille ================================== Friday April 19th ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 09:30 morning session ====================== Data Transfer protocols and network tuning (part I) ---------------------------------------------------- - The Data Transport System (Mike Fitzpatrick, NOAO) - Optimizing Network Throughput for LSST (Mike Freemon, NCSA) - Round table discussion: Shipping disks - is it ever worth it? User-friendly astronomer retrieval options. 10:30 break ============ Data Storage (part II) ----------------------- - A primer to GPFS (Josh Hoblitt, NOAO) - Round table discussion: Data holding "backups": is tape dead; Glacier pricing; Recovering from data loss; how to cost storage 12:00 lunch break (walk to UA Student Union) ============================================= 13:30 afternoon session ======================== Databases ---------- - Temporal databases (Richard Snodgrass, University of Arizona) Authentication, Authorisation and Auxiliary Data Management ------------------------------------------------------------ - Two different models of authentication & authorisation (Frossie Economou, NOAO) - Round table discussion: User management; Proprietary data controls; auxiliary metadata; User support ticketing systems Closing -------- - Round table discussion: What resources can data centers share? Is this type of meeting helpful? 15:00 End ==========
AstDatCenTech Discussion Schedule v1.0 ====================================== Author: frossie@noao.eduDate: 2013-04-16 14:41:07 MST Thursday April 18th ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 09:30 morning session ====================== Welcome -------- - Aim of workshop (Frossie Economou, NOAO) Round-table brief description of participants' facilities (10-15 min each) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Data sources (telecopes etc) - Type of data (imaging, spectroscopy etc) - Size of holdings (volume, number of files) - Type of products (catalogues etc) - Future plans and problems - User-facing services 10:30 break ============ Data Storage ------------- - A primer to GPFS (Josh Hoblitt, NOAO) - Serving data from geographically distributed stores (Severin Gaudet, CADC) - Round table discussion: Data holding "backups": is tape dead; Glacier pricing; Recovering from data loss; how to cost storage 12:00 lunch break (walk to UA Student Union) ============================================= 13:30 afternoon session ======================== Data Processing Infrastructure ------------------------------- - Experiences with Condor and Xseed (Frank Valdes, NOAO) - Round table discussion: Processing workflows VO Services ------------ - The CADC VOSpace Implementation (Pat Dowler, CADC) - Round table discussion: Popular VO services 15:00 break ============ Source code control and testing (part I) ----------------------------------------- - Database test harness and system QA (Brian Thomas, NOAO) - Round table discussion: Software and system testing and deployment processes Source code control and testing (part II) ------------------------------------------ - Software licensing: A cautionary tale (Tim Jenness, CCAT) - Round table discussion: Who publishes their software? Is code re-use a pipe dream? 16:00 end ========== 18:30 Dinner at Old Pueblo Grille ================================== Friday April 19th ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 09:30 morning session ====================== Data Transfer protocols and network tuning (part I) ---------------------------------------------------- - The Data Transport System (Mike Fitzpatrick, NOAO) - Optimizing Network Throughput for LSST (Mike Freemon, NCSA) 10:30 break ============ Data Transfer protocols and network tuning (part II) ----------------------------------------------------- - Round table discussion: Shipping disks - is it ever worth it? User-friendly astronomer retrieval options. System configuration management -------------------------------- - Configuration & deployment with Puppet & Foreman (Josh Hoblitt, NOAO) 12:00 lunch break (walk to UA Student Union) ============================================= 13:30 afternoon session ======================== Databases ---------- - Temporal databases (Richard Snodgrass, University of Arizona) Authentication, Authorisation and Auxiliary Data Management ------------------------------------------------------------ - Two different models of authentication & authorisation (Frossie Economou, NOAO) - Round table discussion: User management; Proprietary data controls; auxiliary metadata; User support ticketing systems Closing -------- - Round table discussion: What resources can data centers share? Is this type of meeting helpful? 15:00 End ==========