[News] Astro-Wise Architectural Design released
Edwin A. Valentijn
valentyn at astro.rug.nl
Fri Jul 11 17:37:09 CEST 2003
Dear AstroWiser, associates and contacts
I am very pleased to announce that the AstroWise consortium has today
released its Architectural Design Document, which was approved by the
consortium.
The document outlines the full AstroWise system and details critical
components in development by the consortium.
First of all, I would like to thank all our collaborators for their
input, the many meetings and programming work that went into this.
see our home-page http://www.astro-wise.org/
or check it out directly : http://www.astro-wise.org/Public/add-v1.0.pdf
Following the experience with prototypes which contained all essential
new AstroWise components the Conceptual Design has now propagated into
a full mature design of which we are pretty confident that it is within
reach of current AstroWise resources and timescales.
The AstroWise prototype system, using a parallel cluster at the RuG
Rekencentrum, Oracle server, File servers, Raid TeraByte Disk towers at
the Kapteyn Institute saw "first virtual light" on 24 April this year
and is capable to process wide field imaging data from WFI at 2.2m and the
INT (La Palma) using AstroWise components. This provided an overall
proof of concept.
Our project is well on schedule but there is still a lot of
implementation work to do (federating in ++ mode and Quality
control/user interfaces).
Our experience is indeed that the implementation work goes rather fast,
perhaps a reward of the extensive design work and choice of paradigms.
I also take the opportunity to mention that two new sites are being
attached to the federation: the Sternwarte Bonn (Prof P. Schneider) and
the Universite de Liege (Prof J. Surdej). They will, as "satellite
site" participate in the Research and Development of the system.
I wish you all a nice summer holiday period!
Best regards
Edwin Valentijn
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