Description
Astronomy & Astrophysics community is in EGEE since 2004 with two pilot applications now in EGEE-III. When the project started in 2008, five funded and eight unfunded partners joined the A&A cluster contributing with challenging applications and use-cases. To support these research groups, a number of A&A VOs are now in place in EGEE-III.
The 5th User Forum is the last one before the end of EGEE-III and the advent of EGI. This A&A session therefore is a good occasion to deeply discuss and analyze the work done during these two years, the maturity achieved by the astronomical community with the Grid and the real perspectives for the continuation of the work undertaken in EGEE also in EGI. For this reason the featured application has been chosen as it will report about the whole activity carried out in the astrophysical cluster in these two years.
The remaining oral contributions will report about the progress with Grid-related activities by research groups that already contributed to the cluster for several projects, namely the LOFAR radio telescope, the PAU survey (study the dark energy and its evidences such as the accelerated expansion of the Universe), the simulated data of the Planck mission (production of simulated data and discovery of non-gaussianity signatures using spherical wavelets) and the computing Grid used for the purposes of the Cerenkov Telescope Array.
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Fokke Dijkstra (Donald Smits Center for Information Technology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands)14/04/2010, 14:00End-user environments, scientific gateways and portal technologiesOralThe LOFAR radio telescope, consisting of several stations with antennas, will become operational in spring 2010. The signals are collected and correlated by a central supercomputer. The resulting data, several petabytes a year, will be stored in an archive, distributed over a number of partners. The LOFAR Archive Information System plays a crucial role in this long-term archive. It will keep...Go to contribution page
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Dr Nadia Tonello (PIC)14/04/2010, 14:15Scientific results obtained using distributed computing technologiesOralThe PAU survey is intended to study the dark energy and its evidences such as the accelerated expansion of the Universe. With this aim, a large number of galaxies will be catalogued forming a map of the universe in large scale. High volumes of data need to be managed, processed and stored. The facilities of the PIC computing centre and the GRID environment will allow the challenging data...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Cecile Barbier (LAPP)14/04/2010, 14:30End-user environments, scientific gateways and portal technologiesOralGamma-ray astronomy is one of the most active topics in astroparticle physics involving both particle physicists and astrophysicists leading to the design of new types of research infrastructures. The Cherenkov Telescope Array - CTA - is a proposed new project for ground based gamma-ray astronomy. This communication aims at providing a report of the most relevant activity carried out and in...Go to contribution page
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Dr Giuliano Taffoni (INAF - IASFBO)14/04/2010, 14:45Scientific results obtained using distributed computing technologiesOralThe Astronomical and Astrophysical (A&A) community is extremely active concerning the use of the EGEE Grid infrastructure in Italy as well as in Europe. We briefly provide a summary of current AA Grid activities and we present selected compute and data intensive applications, which have been recently ported to Grid. Those applications are related either to large international key projects (as...Go to contribution page
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