Elda Rossi CINECA

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Introduction and general management issues

• Elda Rossi (CINECA)

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Introduction

• The project intends to adapt, extend and apply an
  existing tool oriented to astronomical problems.
• effective and intuitive way of visualisation
  analysis
• advanced visualization techniques Stereography
  and Virtual Reality.
• large amount of data produced by numerical
  simulations and observational surveys.
• This project is for
• Professional (researchers)
• Non specialists (general science dissemination
  and school education)
• The project is
• a Trial
• 2 years long 3 months extension (from sep 2001
  to nov 2003)
• A collaboration has been established with
  another EC funded project, ESTEDI, dealing with
  the application of multi-dimensional databases in
  astrophysics

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Scientific areas of interest

• Cosmological simulations
• aim to include a set of quantitative analysis
  tools for data coming from simulations.
• Galaxy catalogues
• aim to include in the tool the possibility to
  manage galaxy and stars catalog . The tool should
  also provide the means to give stereoscopic views
  of the universe to a larger public
• Radio-data
• aim to provide data inspection tools for the
  data of the Westerbork Radio Synthesis Telescope.
• Education
• aim to adapt the tool to science dissemination
  and education

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The partners

• CINECA Consorzio Interuniversitario di Calcolo
  dell'Italia Nord Orientale
• Coordination / Software development
• Maura Melotti, Luigi Calori, Claudio Gheller
• Elda Rossi, Paola Alberigo, Francesca Garofalo
• IRA-CNR Institute of Radioastronomy
• Education / Dissemination
• Paola Parma, Hans De Ruiter, Matteo Murgia
• Mauro Nanni, Franco Tinarelli, Giancarlo Amati
• ASTRON Netherlands Foundation for Research in
  Astronomy
• Development of radio-source models
• Tom Oosterloo, Nico Vermaas
  
• IFCTR-CNR Cosmic Physics Institute "G.
  Occhialini
• Galaxy catalogues
• Dario Maccagni, Bianca Garilli, Luigi Paioro,
  Marco Scodeggio
• INAF- OACT Astrophysical Observatory of Catania
• Cosmological simulations / Testing and validation
• Ugo Becciani, Vincenzo Antonuccio
• Daniela Ferro, Angela Germanà

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The workplan
WP1 management WP2
dissemination WP3 preliminary work WP4 to 7
applicative work WP8 final work and
summarisation

• Now at month 27
• Three months delay for organising a final User
  GroupNov 7, 2003

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Project presentation
http//cosmolab.cineca.it
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and download
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Activities carried out

• Porting to VTK4.1 started in January 2003 and
  was concluded in April 2003 with not many
  significant problems reported by the partners.
• Now we follow the VTK distributions as far as
  possible.
• More functionalities added by all the partners
  (WP4 to WP7)
• Version 2.0 produced and distributed on the web
  . Containing all features developed by partners
  (except Astron).
• Version 2.1 consolidation of the version -
  closing bugs and enhancing the installation
  procedures .
• Version 3.0. final AstroMD release, conteins
  features from ASTRON
• Other testing and Validation activities.
• Measurements on cosmological simulation
  features
• Production of lessons
• AstroMD Guides updated
• Dissemination activities, AstroMD User Group. 

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WP2 dissemination

• WP2 Dissemination
• WP leader IRAStatus completed
• Deliverables due D2 at pm27
• WP aim aim of this Workpackage is to ensure
  exploitability of the project outcomes beyond the
  project to create awareness among the scientific
  community to contribute to published scientific
  state of art to contribute with a new technology
  tool to teaching activity in primary and
  secondary schools.
• Activities
• -          Participation to several meetings,
  both on IT topics and Astronomy.
• -          Organisation of the Second User Group
  meeting
• -          Involvement with teachers and
  students.

? Hans De Ruiter
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WP4 cosmological simulations

• WP4 Cosmological simulations
• WP leader OACT
• Status completed.
• Deliverables due D4b at month 22
• WP aim the aim of this work-package is to
  provide the astronomical community with a tool to
  analyze data coming from numerical simulations,
  base both on particles and on mesh data.
• Activities
• special functions for the HDF5 reader for
  cosmological simulation data

? Ugo Becciani
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WP5 galaxy catalogues

• WP5 Galaxy catalogues
• WP leader IASF-MI Status completed
• Deliverables due D5b at month 22
• WP aim to provide the astronomical community
  with a tool allowing to plot any three variables
  in a galaxy catalogue (i.e., right ascension,
  declination, distance two colours and
  magnitude), thus visualizing the interesting
  parameters on which to make selections for
  further analysis. The tool will also provide the
  means to give stereoscopic views of the universe
  to a larger public.
• Activities
• installation procedures finalized,
  functionalities debugged and tested, working
  examples supplied,

? Luigi Paioro
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WP6 radio data

• WP leader ASTRON
• Status completed
• Deliverables due D6b
• WP aim to provide data inspection tools for the
  visibility data of the Westerbork Radio Synthesis
  Telescope.
• Activities
• Reader of FITS files (to import 3D-dataset
  written in ImageFits format).

? Nico Vermaas
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WP7 galaxy catalogues
? Hans De Ruiter

• WP leader IRA
• Status completed
• Deliverables due D7b
• WP aim to specialize AstroMD for
  educational applications.
• Activities
• celestial coordinates. (Cartesian system
  reference, is not intuitive when showing real
  astronomic objects).
• Grates of spherical coordinates representing
  "right ascension" and "declination
• "Spherical selector" (to select objects inside a
  3D space).
• Semi-interactive lessons as a driven sequence of
  steps equipped by texts and images.

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WP8 testing and validation
? Ugo Becciani

• WP leader OACT
• Status completed
• Deliverables due
• D8a software pilot AstroMD rel.3.0
• D8b User Guide AstroMD rel.3.0
• D8c Installation Guide AstroMD rel.3.0 (new
  deliverable)
• WP aim integrate all the functionalities in
  WP4-7, and to test the tool using data coming
  from numerical simulations and from observational
  catalogues.
• Activities
• VTK library porting ? AstroMD 2.0.
• Bug fixing, stability, installation procedures ?
  AstroMD 2.1
• Merge the WP6 functionalities? AstroMD3.0
• Guides and web downloads  
• INAF-Oact tests and measurements on WP4
  functionalities
• IRA producing lessons to stress the tool.

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WP1 management and Technical Coordination

• WP leader CINECA
• Status completed
• Deliverables due
• D1 project web presentation
• Activities
• Contract Amendment to extend the project of three
  months and to slightly redistribute the budget
  between partners.
• Project web site constantly updated. A major
  updating has been performed now.
• Meetings
• Final Review Meeting (Luxembourg in November, 24h
  2003).
• Developer meeting (Cineca in March, 10th, 2003),
  focused on how to organise activity in WP8.
• Project Meeting (Cineca in November 7th), for
  preparing the Review meeting.
• Nico Veermas from Astron in CINECA (November 10th
  to 14th), to merge WP6 into AstroMD
• Tom Osterloo from Astron in CINECA (November
  10th), for discussing the next review meeting and
  Document preparation.
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deliverables
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Deliverables due this period
jun03

• D4b Cosmological Simulation Report
• D5b Observational catalogues report
• D6b Radio Data report
• D7b Educational report
• D8a AstroMD software Pilot (download area)
• D8b AstroMD UserGuide (download area)
• D8c AstroMD InstallationGuide (download area)
• D2 Dissemination Report

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Problems and deviations from plan

• Main problem is the high turn-over of personnel
  in University and Research Centers (IRA-CNR).
• In Cineca three babies was born since the
  beginning of Cosmo.Lab
• Paola Alberigo (Elena)
• Francesca Garofalo (Marco)
• Maura Melotti (Samuele)

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Exploitation
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Technical issues
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A time overview of AstroMD basics summary
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AstroMD Available Features

• Different features added by the different
  partners
• Analysis tools (Correlation function, Power
  sprectrum, Minkowsky functional)
• Specific readers (Tipsy, Fits)
• Catalogue tools (Data base interactor, support
  for spherical coordinates)
• Educational tools (connection with web
  multimedia tools,)
• others (see them in the next demo)

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Future After Cosmo.Lab

• VTK 4.2 ? VTK .???
• Continuing to be aligned with the last stable
  version of VTK
• incrTCL ? C
• Powerful, reliable, stable , faster
• No VTK bindings required
• Cross platform C library for GUI (WxWins may
  be)
• Hardware Platform
• Windows, Linux, SGI, .
• Experiments for low-cost Virtual Theatre
  solutions
• Collaborative Instruments for Development
• CVS
• Stereo Support
• Experimentation for low-cost stereo solution
  under Windows Linux will be continued.
• Available features
• New features development will depend on the
  future of the project itself