Astrogrid is a £5M project aimed at building a data-grid for UK astronomy, which will form the UK contribution to a global VirtualObservatory. It is also one of several Grid projects in the UK's e-science initiative - more information on these can be obtained from the National E-science Centre. AstroGrid is funded via the UK's Particle Physics & Astronomy Research Council(PPARC). The project was formally started on 2001 September 1, although development began early in 2000.
From the project's initial proposal:
The goals of the AstroGrid project are :
For more information on the Astrogrid project, have a look at the project wiki: Astrogrid.WebHome
-- TonyLinde - 18 Jan 2002 - A working datagrid for key UK databases
- High throughput datamining facilities for interrogating those databases
- A uniform archive query and data-mining software interface
- The ability to browse simultaneously multiple datasets
- A set of tools for integrated on-line analysis of extracted data
- A set of tools for on-line database analysis and exploration
- A facility for users to upload code to run their own algorithms on the datamining machines
- An exploration of techniques for open-ended resource discovery
Topic revision: r3 - 2002-01-29 - 09:37:13 - TonyLinde
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