NAM 2008 Belfast - AstroGrid Demo:

Demo Overview

• Setting up: Mon 31 - ~lunchtime.
• Packing the demo stand: Fri 4 - 2:00 pm.
• Science sessions start Tue 1 at 9:00 am
• Location of Demo Stand: Whitla Hall. This is a big hall with coffee, exhibition stands and (half of the) posters. See campus map at the bottom of this page: http://www.nam2008.qub.ac.uk/travel.shtml

Suggested on line demos

using the 2008.1 release vodesktop

NGC 7027

• cone search examples - on NGC 7027 - 0.1 search box
  • select and view usnob
• siap search examples - choose all - and search on NGC 7027 - 0.1 radius
  • select and view iphas images

Python scripts

• run through the example python scripts that edd has added at the bottom of the python help pages at http://help.astrogrid.org/wiki/Help/IntroScripting/AstrogridPython

Presentation materials

• Abstracts: Andy, Dugan (Hipparcos), Ed (Pan-starrs), Silvia (solar), Jonathan (High energy astrophysics).

• Poster: 1 Astrogrid poster
  • see attachments for the graphics relating to this in this tar file (gzipped) and the backdrop graphic ([jpg]
  • poster for NAM2008 [pdf]
  • poster from NAM2007 for reference [pdf]

• 1 A4 Handouts (to be printed in Cambridge, SD to draft)
  • Very preliminary first draft of A4 flyer AG_flyer_draft1.sxw .pdf
  • Draft 2 of A4 flyer .pdf
  • Draft 3 of A4 flyer .pdf

• Nomadic Pop-Up Stand graphic: Mark Wells to bring to conference
• we asked the organisers for 1 poster board and 2 tables for the stand

• Web Presence - launch web site infrastructure being setup.

• NAM 2008 Rolling Presentation

Logistics

Network

• 2 Ethernet sockets are available, and we can plug our hubs in. Update 7March - the Whitla is now on a 100MBit switch, with a 100MBit link to the campus backbone. That should be upgraded to 3x100MBit uplink next week. (do we need to provide MAC addresses?)

• Wireless is available (assuming that you have asked for wireless access at registration) - Gary is checking whether port 8080 is open on the wireless.

• Resilience - it might be worth putting a pre-prepared /etc/hosts file (or OS equivalent) on demo machines with IP addresses of AstroGrid servers (both ours and VO enabled data providers we may demo against), just in case QUB DNS servers slow or suffer an outage. -- GaryGilchrist - 05 Mar 2008

Equipment

• 2 monitors, at least 2 hubs, switches, cables, VGA splitter, power splitters, table cloths, extensions - All shipped by Gary to Mark Wells on Tuesday 18 March (to arrive in Swindon at least 1 week before NAM).

NAM info

• Science sessions: http://nam2008.qub.ac.uk/parallels_master.shtml

• Talk abstracts deadline: Friday 29th February 2008

People

• At the conference:
  • SilviaDalla - Mon to Fri
  • NicholasWalton - Mon to Thu
  • EduardoGonzalez - Tue to Fri
  • JonathanTedds - Tue to Fri am
  • DuganWitherick - Thu to Fri
  • Main.AnitaRichards - Tue - Thu

• Tech support
  • GaryGilchrist - Mon to Fri

Stand Demos - Scientist rota

2 Scientists needed on stand for each coffee & lunch session (ie when busy)

-- SilviaDalla - 06 Feb 2008