Latest Workshop agenda (as of 4/12)

                AstDatCenTech Discussion Schedule v0.9
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Author: frossie@noao.edu <frossie@noao.edu>
Date: 2013-04-12 16:00:01 MST


Thursday April 18th
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09:30 morning session
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Welcome
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    - Aim of workshop (Frossie Economou, NOAO)

Round-table brief description of participants' facilities (10-15 min each)
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    - 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
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Data Storage
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    - 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)
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13:30 afternoon session
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Data Processing Infrastructure
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   - Experiences with Condor and Xseed (Frank Valdes, NOAO)

   - Round table discussion: Processing workflows

VO Services
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    - The CADC VOSpace Implementation (Pat Dowler, CADC)

    - Round table discussion: Popular VO services

15:00 break
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Authentication, Authorisation and Auxiliary Data Management
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    - Two different models of authentication & authorisation (Frossie Economou, NOAO)

    - Round table discussion: User management; Proprietary data
      controls; auxiliary metadata; User support ticketing systems

16:00 end
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18:30 Dinner at Old Pueblo Grille
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Friday April 19th
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09:30 morning session
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Data Transfer protocols and network tuning (part I)
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- The Data Transport System (Mike Fitzpatrick, NOAO)

- Optimizing Network Throughput for LSST (Mike Freemon, NCSA)

10:30 break
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Data Transfer protocols and network tuning (part II)
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- Round table discussion: Shipping disks - is it ever worth it?
  User-friendly astronomer retrieval options.

System configuration management
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- Configuration & deployment with Puppet & Foreman (Josh Hoblitt, NOAO)

Source code control and testing (part I)
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- Database test harness and system QA (Brian Thomas, NOAO)

12:00 lunch break (walk to UA Student Union)
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13:30 afternoon session
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Databases
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- Temporal databases (Richard Snodgrass, University of Arizona)

Source code control and testing (part II)
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- Software licensing: A cautionary tale (Tim Jenness, CCAT)

- Round table discussion: What resources can data centers share? Is code
re-use a pipe dream?


15:00 End
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