Euro-VO DCA Grid workshop

[Giuliano Taffoni]

Dear collegues

The organisers would like to cordially invite you to register for

                            The Euro-VO DCA workshop

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                        "GRID and the Virtual Observatory"
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                         to be held in Garching, Germany.

                              April 9 - April 11 2008

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Please visit our web-site at:

             http://www.si.inaf.it/eurovow2008/

for further details.

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The Virtual Observatory (VObs) is rapidly evolving as a fundamental  
tool for the astronomical community.  It may be seen as a Grid of  
federated astronomical databases. The VObs allows global electronic  
access to  the available astronomical data archives of space and  
ground-based observatories, and to simulation databases as well. It  
also aims to enable data analysis techniques through world-wide  
network access, state-of-the-art analysis tools, and a coordinating  
entity that provides common standards. To process the huge amount of  
data residing in the VObs it is necessary to provide an adequate  
amount of resources. Providing these resources in a convenient way is  
the aim of the Grid middleware. The combination of the VObs and Grid  
technology is the right answer to this issue, offering a complete and  
integrated working environment to the Astronomical and Astrophysical  
community.

Within this framework, it appears as extremely important to  
interconnect the VObs and the different Grid infrastructures being  
deployed and that will be deployed in the future. The strong  
investment in this kind of facilities, both at the national and  
European levels,  provides a geographically distributed e- 
infrastructure available to European astronomers. It is crucial to  
make this infrastructure available, usable and useful to all users of  
the VObs. Actually some astrophysical applications, mainly in the  
theoretical and modeling fields, are already making use of the  
computing power the computational Grid is able to offer.

Therefore, the main goal of this workshop is to lay the groundwork to  
build the bridge between the VObs and the standard Grid  
infrastructures making developers from the different fields meet and  
exchange experiences and solutions.

To achieve its goals for the workshop targets three main audiences:

-	first the community of Grid and VObs developers that contribute to  
the suite of standard facilities and  web services of the VObs 	and  
Grid middleware and tools.
-	second the audience comprises the Grid and VObs users. This  
includes current and potential users both in the Astronomers 	 
Community and in other scientific areas. A particular goal is to  
identify and support those who are willing to do piloting work 	using  
the new tools provided both by the VObs and Grid technologies to work  
on a specific scientific problem.
-	the Data Centres that want (or are willing to) adopt Grid  
technologies and need to find  suggestions and exchange	 	experiences.

This workshop aims at contributing to the development of new Grid- 
aware astronomical applications and Data Centres.


Workshop Objectives

-	Current Research advances in Grid and Virtual Observatory systems;
-	European and National and Campus e-Infrastructures;
-	Applications in Astronomy and other scientific fields;
-	Data and Databases virtualization in e-science infrastructures;
-	Interoperability and long term sustainability;


This workshop is organised in the frame of the EuroVO Data Center  
Alliance FP6  (http://www.euro-vo.org/pub/dca/)
funded coordinated action.
The workshop is organized "back-to-back" with the Euro-VO DCA  
workshop Theory in the Virtual Observatory" [TBC], which will take  
place from April 7-9, 2008, also in Garching. It is assumed that many  
participants will want to attend both workshops. Information about  
that workshop can be found at the same website.


Scientific Advisory Committee:
Andrew Belikov (NOVA), Art Carlsson (MPE), Harry Enke (AIP), Gerald  
Lemson (MPG), Masatoshi Ohishi (NAO Japan), Pedro Osuna (ESAC), Guy  
Rixon (IoA), Enrique Solano (LAEFF), Andre Schaaff (CDS),  Juan de  
Dios Santander Vela (IAA-CSIC),  Ruben Alvarez Timon (ESAC), G.  
Taffoni (INAF Trieste),  Edwin Valentyn (NOVA)


Local organizing committee:
A. Carlsson (MPE),  J. Kim (MPE), G. Lemson (MPE), G. Taffoni (INAF  
Trieste),  J. Zuther (MPE)


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