Cycle-5 Technical Planning Meeting

Venue & times

Room F11, Physics & Astronomy Building, Leicester

Monday, 15th January: 10:30-17:30
Tuesday, 16th January: 09:00-15:30

Aims

Monday

• Discuss formal Cycle-5 Top Level Goals (see Six Month Plans here and notes from cycle 5 science planning meeting)
• Review Cycle-4
• Review and list existing commitments
• Review official goals
• Review and list existing implicit goals
• Summarise Cycle-5 deliverables (Stories)
• Decide format of Tuesday meeting

Tuesday

• Add detail to Stories (create Use Cases)
• Add detail to Use Cases (create Tasks)
• Document Cycle-5 Technical Deliverables

Cycle-4 Technical Review

Cycle-5 Goals

• Improve software performance, scalability, robustness and reliability
  • Performance: Eliminate bottlenecks and poorly performing components. VO services should be perceived to cost no more than using existing solutions
  • Scalability: Verify System performance can be maintained by deploying additional VO services. Aim to support 100 logged in users, 20 simultaneous users of core services
  • Robustness: Review and enhance Unit and Integration tests, ensure components pass tests. Document resource requirements by component. Verify components fail gracefully when resources squeezed.
  • Reliability: Ensure components report true error conditions and fail gracefully. Provide additional APIs in AR to support retry and fail-over. Components should try to avoid hanging where possible.
• Complete Technical User Documentation incl. running AR.
• Work with scientists to integrate more science applications
• Participate in critical review of fitness for purpose of the UI
• I&R Process: review/refactor
• Provide consistent, straightforward component configuration and administration mechanisms
• Investigate and develop prototypye Taverna based workflow components
• Continue component development:
  • DSA
  • Security
  • CEA
  • Jetty
  • UWS-PA
  • Condor/EGEE/NGS integration
  • STILTS service
  • VOSpace prototype
  • Registry V1.0 upgrade
  • ST(ime)AP service
  • ADQL Parser / Query Builder
  • Workbench enhancements
  • AR enhancements
  • Leicester service upgrades (Web/CVS/etc on VMs)
• Meet external commitments:
  • IVOA
  • VOTech
  • ESAC
  • CADC
  • ChinaVO
  • Workshops
  • CalTech/SDSC

Links

Systems testing pages

-- KeithNoddle - 12 Jan 2007