1. NeSC/eDIKT & AstroGrid Phase B NeSC and IBM Grid work NeSC and IBM Grid work NeSC/WFAU sky survey DB design work NeSC/WFAU sky survey DB design work Astro-related eDIKT projects Astro-related eDIKT projects NeSC/eSI visitor & workshop programmes NeSC/eSI visitor & workshop programmes

2. NeSC and IBM Grid work NeSC to be “one of a few” alpha test sites for IBM Grid software worldwide NeSC to be “one of a few” alpha test sites for IBM Grid software worldwide Don’t know details yet, but could give us… Don’t know details yet, but could give us…  early access to IBM’s commercial-strength OGSA implementation  a chance to influence future data grid work?  …but what obligations as testers? Do we want to pursue this? Do we want to pursue this?

3. NeSC/WFAU DB design work R&D for WFCAM and VISTA DBs R&D for WFCAM and VISTA DBs  Focus on scalability and spatial indexing Involvement from IBM, Oracle & MS Involvement from IBM, Oracle & MS  Contacts in spatial development teams What role does AstroGrid want in this? What role does AstroGrid want in this?  Results to be shared with AG, of course  Active involvement of CGP &/or ACD? – some relevance to AstroGrid data warehouse

4. eDIKT status Modest progress to date Modest progress to date  Recruitment slow  Infrastructure set-up taking time  Technical Architect post filled (?) Two strands to eDIKT work Two strands to eDIKT work  “Generic” Grid technology  Testbeds – astronomy one of four

5. eDIKT current/planned work eDIKT “generic” strand eDIKT “generic” strand  Implementation of OGSA-DAI standards - 2 nd reference implementation needed for GGF Astronomy testbed Astronomy testbed  Current work: BinX (XML schema for binary data) – BM to post note on Wiki ASAP.  Ideas for future: large DB table joins; web service wrapping of data mining algorithms; IDL client for OGSA-DAI

6. NeSC/eSI visitor and workshop programmes Workshops Workshops  Malcolm Atkinson responsive to AstroGrid suggestions – e.g. Java courses  Any other workshops/courses we’d like? Visitor Programme Visitor Programme  Budget significantly underspent  Any NVO/AVO people we’d like to have in the UK for a week or two?