IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum

[David Schade]

  Dear Fabio,

  I have an interest in this subject. In Canada I have been serving for 
18 months or so I have effectively been
the astronomy liason with Compute Canada (our national HPC grid). In 
that time we've achieved a lot in terms
of cloud processing and storage. I'd like to undrstand the global 
situation better.

    David


On 11-10-17 2:48 AM, Fabio Pasian wrote:
> Dear All,
> at the Napoli Exec meeting, I was given the task to start an 
> IVOA Liaison Group with the Open Grid Forum (OGF). The activity of 
> this group (OGF LG) is to liaise with the OGF with the aim of 
> promoting discussion and analysis of topics connected to the use of 
> Grid and Cloud technologies in support of astronomical data and data 
> processing environments: the main goal is to 
> achieve cross-fertilization between communities. The OGF LGwill report 
> regularly on its activities at the GWS sessions during IVOA 
> Interoperability Meetings.
> The idea is to re-start the activities of the Astro-RG IG, disbanded 
> two years ago, and update the terms of reference, while being aware 
> that this will not be an Interest Group (i.e. having the task of 
> defining new requirements for the IVOA standards), but a group 
> following technical evolution of grids and clouds. Any possible 
> technical impact on IVOA standards shall be brought up within the GWS WG.
> I'm currently in the process of drafting the Terms of Reference for 
> the OGF LG. Please let me know your possible interest in the topic, 
> and I'll put you on an interim mailing list and send you the draft 
> ToR. For those in Pune, please get in touch with me: we could organise 
> a splinter meeting to discuss the ToR on Thursday afternoon (session 
> 16, 16:00-17:30).
> Fabio
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-- 
Dr. David Schade
Scientist and Group Leader
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
National Research Council Canada

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