Updated agenda (4/16)

Swap of two sessions to accomodate a speaker's early departure.

                AstDatCenTech Discussion Schedule v1.0
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Author: frossie@noao.edu 
Date: 2013-04-16 14:41:07 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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Source code control and testing (part I) 
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- 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) 
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- 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 
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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)

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) 

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

Closing 
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- Round table discussion: What resources can data centers share? Is
  this type of meeting helpful?


15:00 End 
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