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DS6 Progress End of Stage 03

Edinburgh

Focus for stage03 was VO Enabling and plasticization of existing tools and scalable data mining. From DS6 Stage 03 Plans:

Basics

  • Recruit Data miner/developer
    • DONE - Lorenzo Rimoldini to start as Astronomer/Data miner October
    • DONE - Brian Walshe to start as Data miner/developer October

VO-enabling of existing tools

Plastic
  • VisIVO - Marco and Bjorn to visit
    • DONE - Complete. VisIVO now sends and receives Plastic messages.
  • Astroneural - Antonino to visit in July
    • Not done.
  • Others - GAIA, Mirage...want critical mass of plasticized tools.
    • Currently there are >12 plasticized tools including such favourites as Aladin, Topcat, VisIVO, GAIA, VOSpec, SPLAT, AstroScope and newcomers such as Elizabeth's solar apps, VOQuest, Eirik and Weka.
  • Plastic news: draft of IVOA note, message fragments, and Plastic-enabled webpages: http://eurovotech.org/wfau/tupperware/ShowApplet.html

AstroRuntime

  • Weka accesses MySpace and does cone searches through AR.
  • Web page access to Workbench (see above)

CEA

Scalable Data Mining

  • Run KDE estimation code using VOTech broker
    • Not done
    • Meeting with Bob Nichol arranged for November
    • Handover of VOTechBroker? code by Garry underway
      • July Meeting in Edinburgh with GTR and MG (Caltech) comparing CEA/UWS/NESSI/VOTechBroker
      • DS4 to take over maintenance of VOTechBroker??
      • DS6 to be an early adopter
  • Look into offering kd-trees as a datacenter service/API
      • Under way
      • Anomaly Detector now deployed (uses kd trees)
  • Investigate scalability of weka (MSc project)
    • DONE. Dissertation submitted.

Plans for 04

  • Focus on VOTechBroker? deployment and kd trees
  • Report

-- JohnTaylor - 31 Aug 2006

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