AstroGrid

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AstroGrid

• a complete VO solution

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Basic VO capability includes

• Single sign-on
• Access to all data
• Access to tools
• Register of entities

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Complete VO solution adds

• Portal
• Security
• Community
• Workflow
• Messaging
• Virtual storage

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AstroGrid Architecture
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Data Access

• Data centre owns
• Data collections which contain
• Datasets
• Data centre creates
• Data Access Policy documentswhich assign Access
  Rights to
• Community Groups

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Registry

• Metadata for all VO entities
• Unique identifier for each entity
• Curation information for
• Metadata
• Data
• Content information

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Tools

• Data analysis
• Image creation
• Catalogue extraction

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Community

• People
• Organisations
• Institutes, departments, funders
• Projects
• Temporary grouping of people org structs
• Groups
• Virtual groupings for assigning access privs
• Cross-community

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Portal

• Access to workflow tools
• Identity for
• Organisation
• Project
• Data centre

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Security

• Identification
• Who is it?
• Authentication
• Proof of identity
• Authorisation
• Right to perform action

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Workflow

• Instant or scheduled job submission
• Job construction
• Branching, merging, interupts, etc.
• Open API
• Any compliant tool may be used in job

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Messaging

• AstroMQ
• Component to component
• synchronisation
• Store and forward
• AstroLog
• Component to User
• Portal presents messages in portlet
• Track job progress
• Alerts

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MySpace

• Virtual storage
• Explorer tools
• View
• Move, Delete
• Copy, Paste
• Used by all components

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AstroGrid status

• Process
• Iterative Incremental
• Iteration 01 (Mar03)
• Code repository
• Trial portal registry

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AstroGrid status Iteration 02 (Jul03)

• Data access
• Registry
• Workflow
• Messaging
• MySpace

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AstroGrid status Iteration 03/04 (Sep/Dec03)

• Data access
• Registry
• Workflow
• Messaging
• MySpace
• Portal
• Community
• Security

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AstroGrid Demos at IAU 2003

• Iteration 02
• Basic portal
• Registry query
• Data query
• MySpace Explorer
• Anglo-Australian Demo
• Grid-based data cube access
• Cluster-based dynamic rendering
• Ask to see them now!

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AstroGrid Reps at IAU 2003

• Andy Lawrence Project Lead
• Nic Walton Project Scientist
• Tony Linde Project Manager
• Guy Rixon Senior Developer Grid Technologies

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AstroGrid Information

• Home
• http//www.astrogrid.org
• News
• http//news.astrogrid.org
• Forum
• http//forum.astrogrid.org
• Wiki
• http//wiki.astrogrid.org
• Status
• http//oversight.astrogrid.org