DS6 Progress End of Stage 03

Edinburgh

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

• 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

• Anomaly Detector deployed (see below). See demo at: http://eurovotech.org/wfau/demos/AnomalyDetection.html

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