Elda Rossi CINECA

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Management report

• Elda Rossi (CINECA)

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Introduction

• The project intends to adapt, extend and apply an
  existing tool oriented to astronomical problems.
• effective and intuitive way of visualisation
  analysis
• advanced visualization techniques Stereography
  and Virtual Reality.
• large amount of data produced by numerical
  simulations and observational surveys.
• This project is for
• Professional (researchers)
• Non specialists (general science dissemination
  and school education)
• The project is
• a Trial
• 2 years long (from sep 2001 to aug 2003)
• A collaboration has been established with
  another EC funded project, ESTEDI, dealing with
  the application of multi-dimensional databases
  in astrophysics

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The partners

• CINECA Consorzio Interuniversitario di Calcolo
  dell'Italia Nord Orientale
• Coordination / Software development
• Maura Melotti, Luigi Calori, Claudio Gheller
• Elda Rossi, Francesca Garofalo
• IRA-CNR Institute of Radioastronomy
• Education / Dissemination
• Paola Parma, Hans De Ruiter, Matteo Murgia
• Mauro Nanni, Franco Tinarelli, Giancarlo Amati
• ASTRON Netherlands Foundation for Research in
  Astronomy
• Development of radio-source models
• Tom Oosterloo, Nico Vermaas
  
• IFCTR-CNR Cosmic Physics Institute "G.
  Occhialini
• Galaxy catalogues
• Dario Maccagni, Bianca Garilli, Luigi Paioro,
  Marco Scodeggio
• INAF- OACT Astrophysical Observatory of Catania
• Cosmological simulations / Testing and validation
• Ugo Becciani, Vincenzo Antonuccio
• Daniela Ferro, Angela Germanà

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The workplan
WP1 management WP2
dissemination WP3 preliminary work WP4 to 7
applicative work WP8 final work and
summarisation

• Now at month 15
• Wp3 finished
• Wp4-7 toward the end
• Wp2 8 just started

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WP1 management

• Elda Rossi
• Paola Alberigo
• Francesca Garofalo

From month 1 to month 24 Coordinator CINECA 3
months Other partners 1 month
Objectives effective and coherent project
management .... Technical coherence and quality,
timely delivery of results and continuous
performance of all partners. Set-up of the WEB
site. OKCoordination of the User Group OK
Deliverable month 2 D1 project web
presentation OK month6, 12, Progress
Report OK
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WP1 management
sep 01 aug 03

• Main facts and meeting
• Sep 1st, 01 start of the project
• Sep 26th, 01 Kick off meeting
• Jan 16th, 02 project management meeting
• Mar 1st, 02 ASTRON has been added
• june 3rd, 02 first User Group meeting
• june 24th, 02 developer meeting
• .
• Deliverable due
• D1 Project web presentation (at month 2),
• PR6 (6 monthly technical reports)

• Work done
• construction of the Web-site (http//cosmolab.cine
  ca.it),
• 6monthly public reports written (CS and PR),
• reimbursements from Commission received and
  passed to the project partners (both advance and
  1 CS)
• the user group has been defined. Its members have
  been contacted and the macro objectives of
  Cosmo.lab has been discussed.

OXFORD partner withdraw the project, and was
substituted by ASTRON (The Netherlands Foundation
for Research in Astronomy - Amsterdam) starting
from PM7. Amendment to the contract, May the 21st
2002
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WP2 dissemination

• IRA-CNR
• Mauro Nanni
• Franco Tinarelli

From month 10 to month 24 (jun 02 aug
03) Coordinator IRA-CNR 3 monthsCINECA 2
monthsOther partners 1 month

• ObjectivesTo ensure exploitability of the
  product beyond the project, to create awareness
  among the scientific community, to contribute to
  the published scientific state of the art.To
  contribute with a new high technology tool to
  teaching activity in primary and secondary
  schools.

Deliverable Feb 2003 Web site for
disseminationdownload Aug 2003 D2
Dissemination report
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WP2 dissemination
Jun 02 aug 03

• Educational
• preliminary contacts (IRA) to organize an
  educational meeting with
• teachers of secondary school
• IRRE-ER (Regional Institute of educational
  research)
• AstroMD has been showed (INAF-OACT), to students
  and teachers of the High School Liceo
  Scientifico Statale E.Fermi, Ragusa, in March,
  2002, with an interactive demo and oral
  presentation.
• Meetings fairs
• Futurshow 3002 Bologna (Apr 19, 02) exibition
• Eurographic Italia" Milano (Jul 11-12, 02)
  exibition and talk "AstroView a 3D
  visualization tool for astronomical dataset
• first AstroMD/ Estedi User Group meeting -
  Bologna (Jun 3, 02)
• First Computational Astrophysical National
  Workshop Bologna (July 4-5, 02)talk AstroMD.
  An on-the-fly data analysis tool for N-body
  simulations
• 6th Congress of SIMAI - Laguna Chia (May 27-31,
  2002) talk
• ADASS - exibition and talk
• IST2002 Copenhagen (nov 4-6, 02) exibition
• The Web site of the project has been updated for
  dissemination

Flyers for IST2002 and 5FP launch
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WP3 Assessment requirement analysis

• CINECA
• Elda Rossi
• Claudio Gheller
• Maura Melotti
• Luigi Calori

sep 01 feb 02(completed)
Objectives To collect requirements on how to
adapt the original AstroMD in order to meet the
needs of the partners. Data set characteristics
and current work-flow to be investigated for each
single research task and educational To define
sw and hw environment to ensure portability and
collaborative workingTo establish corporate
feeling among project partnersThe User Group
will be deeply involved to ensure a general
consensus
OK
OK
OK

• Work done Collection of requirements was
  achieved through bilateral meetings between
  CINECA and each single partner and a final
  meeting.
• Initial training on AstroMD has been done to all
  partners.
• Deliverables due
• D3 Assessment and requirement analysis report
  (final version at month 6)
• D3 addendum Requirement Analysis and Solutions
  Report (at month 10)

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WP4 to 7 Applications
From month 2 (4) to month 16 (18) Coordinator
specific partner 10-11 months
CINECA 2-3 months IRA works for 2 months in
Catalogues and radio sources All work for 1
month in educational

• Objectives To define the tools and to add
  functionality as decided in WP3 for ...
• performing a set of numerical simulations using
  different cosmological models, and use the data
  produced as input data for validating the new
  features
• arranging a catalogue of celestial objects from
  the VIRMOS Survey and use the data as input data
  for validating the new features. Other available
  surveys (galaxies and stars) can be used
• collecting a set of extragalactic radio sources
  to use as input data for validating the new
  features
• specializing the software tool and to add
  functionality for educational purposes
• defining a number of different didactic tracks,
  that can be chosen interactively according to the
  competence level of the students.

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WP4 to 7 Applications
Deliverables due report and demonstrator at
PM16/18
oct 01 feb 03

• WP4 Cosmological simulations
• WP leader OACT
• aim to include a set of quantitative analysis
  tools for data coming from simulations.
• WP5 Galaxy catalogues
• WP leader IASF-MI
• aim to include in the tool the possibility to
  manage galaxy and stars catalog . The tool should
  also provide the means to give stereoscopic views
  of the universe to a larger public
• WP6 Radio-data
• WP leader ASTRON
• aim to provide data inspection tools for the
  data of the Westerbork Radio Synthesis Telescope.
• WP7 Education
• WP leader IRA
• aim to adapt the tool to science dissemination
  and education

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WP8 Testing and Validation

• INAF-OACT
• Ugo Becciani
• Vincenzo Antonuccio

From month 14 to month 22 (oct 02 jul
03) Coordinator INAF-OACT 4 months
CINECA/IRA 4 months others
1 month

• Objectives To implement a comprehensive version
  of AstroMD
• Testing it (data from partners and the User
  Group), for simulations observational data.
• Validate the effectiveness of Virtual Reality for
  research and educational.
• Devise procedures to verify the ability of
  AstroMD to handle large data-sets.
• Test of the portability of the software on
  scalable platforms.

• Work done or to be done
• Tool versions implemented and distributed through
  the WEB
• A comprehensive sw doc package developed and
  distributed
• Tests with increasingly large and structured
  data-sets to be performed
• Portability aspect to be assessed
• Joint collaborations with the User Group to
  validate AstroMD for science
• joint collaborations with teachers to validate
  AstroMD in educational.

OK
OK
starting
OK
starting
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Whats next ?

• DisseminationParticipation to meetings more
  related with IT topics
• International Conference on Computational Science
  2003 june 2003submitted talk
• WSCG'2003, February 3-7, 2003, Plzen, Czech
  RepublicAstroMDsubmitted talk
• Applicative WPs to be concluded in few months
• Possible extension to M20 (a lot of work to do )
• ASTRON is late its WP to be delayed up to M24
• Reports to be written
• Pilots should be available (but see next point)
• WP8 to be completed
• Integration has been anticipated all partners
  are working now on a common environment (CVS)
  Version 2.0 already available for downloading
• Continuously updating Version 3.0 as the final
  one
• Tests and validation for science and educational
• Educational tracks

Merged pilot substitutes single applicative
pilots
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Program of the day

• Elda Rossi management report
• Claudio Gheller life demonstration
• Maura Melotti technical details
• Hans de Ruiter the vision of observational
  astronomy (and educational)
• Ugo Becciani the vision of simulation
  cosmology (and User Group and testvalidation)

Thank you