IVOA/tvo stuff

[Franck Le Petit]

	Dear Peter,

	The poster you saw at ADASS presented by Renaud Savalle, was in fact  
the work I am doing with Jonathan Normand and Fabrice Roy at the  
Observatory of Paris. Unfortunatly none of us was at ADASS.
	Our objective is for the moment slightly different from the problems  
encountered with cosmology/MHD codes. We developped tools 1) to give  
access to simulation codes and computing ressources through the VO 2)  
to extract from the results of the simulation the interesting  
physical quantities. Our tool could seems like a sophisticated  
getFIELD method for codes dealing with thousands different physical  
quantities but few points in the spatial grid (so the cutout method  
of SNAP is not really usefull there). In the coming next month we  
will try and make it converge with the SNAP protocol.

	If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

	Best regards
	Franck

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    Franck Le Petit
    LUTH
    Observatoire de Paris
    5 Place Jules Janssen
    92190 Meudon
    France
    Tel: (33) 1 45 07 75 66
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Le 30 sept. 07 à 11:39, glemson a écrit :

> Hi Peter
> Your email address of me was correct but I have been in  
> intermittent email contact only, and had no time to reply yet.
> I only saw Ugo on Friday, when I was only shortly able to talk with  
> him.
> The conclusions of the TIG session will be posted on the wiki site  
> and email list next week.
> The main cocnlusions regarding services is that download and custom  
> are to have first emphasis, as we want to have demonstratable  
> services up asap and not have to wait for definition and  
> implementation of standard services.
> The point about usability of level 3 services is very valid i think  
> and we may want to stimulate implementors to have such services  
> ready as well.
> Thanks
> Gerard
> PS
> One other conclusion from the session was that we should start  
> promoting the use of the theory mailing list for our discussions.
> Peter Teuben writes:
>> this is the email i sent to Gerard as well... is the email not  
>> correct anymore?
>> Ugo, can you check with him? On [Wed Sep 26 19:55], Peter Teuben  
>> wrote:
>>> Gerard,    although I was at ADASS now, it wasn't possible for me  
>>> to extend the trip
>>> and spend 2 more days in Cambridge. That now seems like a shame,  
>>> as it would
>>> have been good to participate in the TVO style discussions.  
>>> Nonetheless, there were a whole bunch of TVO-related posters at  
>>> ADASS this year,
>>> that I found it useful to get all of them together and sit around  
>>> the table.
>>> Here's my view of what we discussed, Ugo can represent other  
>>> viewpoints once you meet him tomorrow. We briefly talked  
>>> cosmology, as most of the particpants were cosmo chaps:
>>> Ugo & Claudio, Patricia, Rick Wager (Mike Norman's student), Dave  
>>> de Young (joined later)
>>> and me. We even made a picture. This french guy (Savalle, from  
>>> poster P1.21) was
>>> supposed to join, but didn't show up and later just walked by us  
>>> ignoring us.
>>> Maybe he forgot, or maybe my english was not french enough when I  
>>> invited him :-( Ugo dicussed 3 levels of access:
>>> 1) low level data, the simulation data itself
>>> 2) certain sections or snapshots from the simulation (e.g. SNAP)
>>> 3) final products, this could be software telescope produced,
>>>    catalogs produced from a simulation etc.etc. #3 is the obvious  
>>> thing to concentrate on. We doubt 2, but especially
>>> 1, is of interest to observers. Real power and visibility comes from
>>> well selected examples in #3. I'll hope to hear more from home  
>>> tomorrow. peter
>