Transcript EXPReS Annual Review - 2007 April 17 NA's- Past 12 Month Overview T.

EXPReS Annual Review
- 2007 April 17
NA's- Past 12 Month Overview
T. Charles Yun
EXPReS Project Team
JIVE, Coordinating Institution
EXPReS is made possible through the support of
the European Commission (DG-INFSO), Sixth
Framework Programme, Contract #026642
Agenda
09:00-09:30
09:30-11:00
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11:00-11:15
11:15-11:45
11:45-12:30
12:30-13:15
13:15-14:00
14:00-15:15
15:15-16:00
16:00-16:20
16:20-16:30
16:30
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Introductions / Overview
EXPReS Summary for Past 12 Months
NA1/NA2/NA3/NA4- Network Activities and Management
SA1- Production e-VLBI Service
SA2- Network Provision for a Global e-VLBI Array
JRA1- Future Arrays of Broadband Radio Telescop on Internet Computing
Break
External User: Benefits and capabilities of e-VLBI
Comments from E.C. on morning
Lunch
Financial Overview for Past 12 Months
Overview of project next 18 Months
Open Discussion
Reviewer Internal Meeting
First Feedback to the team
Conclusion / End of First Year Review
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Introduction
(some of) The Faces of EXPReS
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Introduction
EXPReS Timeline
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NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
NA1- Management of I3
• Distribution of Period 1 funding (covered later)
• Board Meeting
• Selection of Chair and Vice-Chair
• Confirmation of Coordinator
• Project Kickoff Meeting
• Basic communication pathways for the project
• Contact names/info, mailing lists
• Addendum to the Consortium Agreement
• Makeup of the Project Office
• Reporting, communications
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NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
NA1- the Project Office
• Project Coordinator
• Mike Garrett, Huib Jan van Langevelde
• The switch has been signaled to the EC and the Project
Office has received a letter recognizing the change.
• Administrative Assistant
• Diana van Dijk (month 1)
• Project Manager
• T. Charles Yun (month 6)
• With the completion of the full project office, communication
and reporting with the EC should be more effective and reliable
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NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
NA1- Amendment to Consort. Agmt
• Changes to the Consortium Agreement were proposed at the
Board Meeting
• Creating a formal Amendment was the procedural solution
• The board discussed the text to be modified as well as the
reasons and reasoning for the changes
• In total, eight amendments were accepted and verbally approved
by the board
• A "signable" legal document followed after several cycles of
legal formatting
• All partners have signed the Consortium Agreement as well as
the Amendment to the Consortium Agreement
• Copies of the signed documents are held by the Project
Office
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NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
NA2- EVN-NREN Forum
• EVN-NREN = European VLBI Network - National Research and Education
Networks
• John Chevers, DANTE
• Purpose:
• Support and encourage discussion on topics relating to network
implementation of telescopes and performance experienced by e-VLBI
traffic between members of the astronomy and networking communities
• Activities
• EVN-NREN Meeting, May 2006
• NREN cooperation with SMART-1 observation
• NREN Partners
• GEANT2 (Europe) via DANTE
• SURFnet6 (Netherlands) via SURFnet
• PIONEER (Poland) via PSNC
• AARNet3 (Australia) via AARNet
• South American network’s participation in SMART-1
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NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
GEANT2
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NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
SURFNet6
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NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
PIONEER
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NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
AARNet3
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List of 19
NRENs
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Participant
NREN
1
JIVE
SURFnet
2
AARNET
AARNet
3
DANTE
n/a
4
PSNC
PSNC/PIONEER
5
SURFnet
SURFnet
6
ASTRON
SURFnet
7
CNIG-IGN
RedIRIS
8
CSIRO
AARNet
9
HRAO-NRF
TENET
10
INAF
GARR
11
MPG (1)
DFN
11
MPG (2)
Jülich
12
TKK
Funet / CSC
13
CORNELL (1)
PRISA (Puerto Rico Internet Services Association)
13
CORNELL (2)
FIU (Florida International University)
14
UMK
PIONEER
15
OSO (1)
SUNET
15
OSO (2)
NORDUunet
16
SHAO
CSTNET
17
UDEC (1)
REUNA
17
UDEC (2)
RedCLARA
18
UNIMAN
UKERNA
19
VeA/VIRAC (1)
LATNET
19
VeA/VIRAC (2)
GEANT
19
VeA/VIRAC (3)
GEANT
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NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
SMART-1 Observation, 2006 Sept
• e-VLBI is used to monitor SMART-1’s
controlled impact on the surface of the
moon.
• Radio telescopes, led by European radio
astronomers from JIVE recorded key data
during its final moments and impact.
• Successes:
• 10 usec accuracy of impact (+/- 2 cm)
• Networked transport of data
• Coordination and cooperation between
telescopes, astronomers and
inter/national backbone networks
• e-VLBI in support of space operations
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ESA 2002
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NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
NA3- eVSAG
• eVSAG = e-VLBI Science Advisory Group
• John Conway
• Purpose
• to be a forum to discuss the science use of e-VLBI, give a
user perspective on the relative priorities for technical
development and give science-based policy advice to other
parts of EXPReS or the EVN in general
• Meetings
• e-VLBI progress and strategy to the EVN board of directors;
Florence, Italy; May 2006
• e-VLBI update to the EVN board of directors, Dwingeloo,
the Netherlands, Nov 2006
• eVSAG meeting; Dwingeloo, the Netherlands; Nov 2006
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NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
NA3- e-VLBI Observation
• The e-VLBI observation schedule is coordinated via the eVSAG
chair. Summary of past year's observation schedule:
16 Mar 2006
Technical operations, 5 antennas at 128 Mbps
20 Apr 2006
Gave published observations (Tudose, et al. and Rushton, et al.)
18 May 2006
Six station fringes at 256 Mbps (CM, JB, MC, ON, TR, WB). First ever European 512 Mbps e-VLBI
fringes on the Jodrell Bank - Westerbork baseline. 13-hours science project without major problems.
21 August 2006
We had the first 512 Mbp fringes between three European stations: Cambridge, Onsala and Westerbork. We
also got fringes for the first time between Cambridge, Medicina and Westerbork using Medicina’s new 5
GHz receiver.
26 October 2006
New correlator control computer. First time to run the science experiments at 256 Mbps. Two projects that
targeted the X-ray binary LSI +61.303, and the eclipsing binary system Algol. Both of the targets were
nicely detected in the data analysis pipeline.
14 December 2006
Test went extremely smoothly, three science projects. 6 stations easily participated at 256 Mbps.
29 January - 1
February 2007
Set up as a double adaptive run (29 January - 1 February) with the first run used to select targets for the
second run. 6 stations participated at 256 Mbps. The reduction strategy worked well, and pipeline maps
were produced for 14 out of 16 sources by the end of the first run. Unfortunately, none of the sources were
found to be in an active state. On 2 February, all telescopes observed a calibrator source for one hour at
512 Mbpsto produce the first map at 512 Mbps.
20 February 2007
512 Mbps data rate was again achieved from fives stations.
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NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
Science Publications
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NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
NA4- Public Outreach
• Purpose:
• to develop a coherent and visible outreach programme
profiling EXPReS to astronomers, diverse researchers and
the general public both nationally and internationally
• Activity highlights:
• General project website
• Project wiki with public and secured areas
• Press releases, posters, support for news and radio articles
• Project brochure, distributed to partners
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NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
EXPReS Public Online Presence
http://www.expres-eu.org/
• The EXPReS website is the public’s
interface into the project. From this
point general, scientific and technical
information is accessible.
• Many of the physical publications
produced by the project are available
for download
• The EXPReS wiki is a dynamic
forum where project members create
and edit project related information.
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NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
General Publications
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NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
EXPReS Project Site- wiki
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NA1 Deliverables
D#
A
AD#
Descrip
D32
NA1
NA1.01
Annual report (incl. Financial information) to EC
12
D81
NA1
NA1.02
Annual report (incl. Financial information) to EC
24
D111
NA1
NA1.03
Annual report (incl. Financial information) to EC
36
D112
NA1
NA1.04
Final Report to Board and EC
36
D113
NA1
NA1.05
Final Plan for using and disseminating knowledge
36
D114
NA1
NA1.06
Implementation of the Gender Action Plan
36
D115
NA1
NA1.07
Raising public participation and awareness
36
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Plan
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Actual
13
NA2 Deliverables
D#
A
AD#
Descrip
Plan
Actual
D4
NA2
NA2.01
EVN-NREN meeting No. 1 (under auspices of EXPReS)
(minutes)
D31
NA2
n/a
NA2 annual report No. 2 (as part of EXPReS Ann. Rep No. 2)
24
D33
NA2
NA2.02
NA2 annual report No. 1 (as part of EXPReS Ann. Rep No. 1)
12
D48
NA2
NA2.03
EVN-NREN meeting No. 2
18
D82
NA2
NA2.04
NA2 annual report No. 2 (as part of EXPReS Ann. Rep No. 2)
24
D88
NA2
NA2.05
EVN-NREN meeting No. 3
26
26
D89
NA2
NA2.06
EVN-NREN representatives present EXPReS networking
results at the e-VLBI Science & Technology Workshop
D90
NA2
n/a
EVN-NREN meeting
D116
NA2
NA2.07
NA2 annual & Final reports
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n/a
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6
13
NA3 Deliverables
D#
A
AD#
Descrip
Plan
D6
NA3
NA3.1
First meeting of eVSAG under auspices of EXPReS
(minutes)
D46
NA3
NA3.2
eVSAG meeting No. 2
16
D91
NA3
NA3.3
eVSAG meeting No. 3
26
D94
NA3
NA3.4
e-VLBI Workshop held in Onsala
30
D107
NA3
NA3.5
Publication of e-VLBI Workshop proceedings
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4
Actual
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NA4 Deliverables
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A
AD#
Descrip
D1
NA4
NA4.01
Creation of Public EXPReS web-site
2
1
D7
NA4
NA4.02
Creation of EXPReS web-based management tools
4
4
NA4.03
Generation of PR material (phase 1: logos and posters,
PowerPoint template, press releases and news
clippings, brochure)
6
1
NA4.04
e-VLBI Demonstration and attendance at Network
events (events, presentations)
12
12
NA4.05
Generation of new PR material (phase 2: display stand
and merchandise)
18
e-VLBI Demonstration and attendance at Network
events.
24
D10
D34
D49
NA4
NA4
NA4
D83
NA4
NA4.06
D117
NA4
NA4.07
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Plan
e-VLBI Demonstration and attendance at network
events.
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Actual
Agenda
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09:30-11:00
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11:00-11:15
11:15-11:45
11:45-12:30
12:30-13:15
13:15-14:00
14:00-15:15
15:15-16:00
16:00-16:20
16:20-16:30
16:30
2007 April 17
Introductions / Overview
EXPReS Summary for Past 12 Months
NA1/NA2/NA3/NA4- Network Activities and Management
SA1- Production e-VLBI Service
SA2- Network Provision for a Global e-VLBI Array
JRA1- Future Arrays of Broadband Radio Telescop on Internet Computing
Break
External User: Benefits and capabilities of e-VLBI
Comments from E.C. on morning
Lunch
Financial Overview for Past 12 Months
Overview of project next 18 Months
Open Discussion
Reviewer Internal Meeting
First Feedback to the team
Conclusion / End of First Year Review
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Conclusion
Questions/Answers
•
Contact information
T. Charles Yun
Project Manager
EXPReS (JIVE)
tcyun at jive dot nl
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Additional Information
http://expres-eu.org/
http://www.jive.nl/
•
[note: only one “s”]
EXPReS is made possible through the support of the European
Commission (DG-INFSO), Sixth Framework Programme,
Contract #026642
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Conclusion
EXPReS
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