This is a self enclosed wiki page containing the agenda and all the supplied review documentation. It is publicly viewable.
Update!
Because of the COVID-19 situation, this meeting is now being held online:
Join URL: https://zoom.us/j/294317035
Related Slack discussions https://app.slack.com/client/T4AL8RCP8/C0100SZJQMU
Rather than being spread over Tuesday and Wednesday, will now be 9-5 on Wednesday. Otherwise, the purpose and structure of the meeting is more or less unchanged.
Purpose and Goals of the Meeting
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Identify the key technology decisions to make
Review the results of related tests and experiments
Conclude as many key technology choices as possible
Clarify remaining technology choices to be made
Set further tests in order to reach conclusions
Outline a technical design
Place/Date
ROE rooftop gallery. (See information on Visiting IfA)
The meeting is roughly one day spread over two.
Tues March 17th 11:00 -6:00pm
Wed March 18th 9:00am - 1:00pm
An informal pub dinner is planned for Tuesday evening.0900-1700 vis Zoom
https://zoom.us/j/294317035
Session-1: Introduction and Context
For general context, see papers O1-O6 below
Presentation slides will be uploaded on the day
Chair: George Beckett
1109:00 Introduction and goals of meeting (Andy Lawrence)
1109:10 Context: Rubin observatory, LSST and LSST:UK (Stephen Smartt)
1109:40 Lasair today: what it does, how it works – demo (Roy Williams)[see paper O5 and documentation]
1210:10 Sherlock: what it does, how it works (Dave Young) [slide deck]
1210:40 Lasair planning process (Andy will add slides)[see paper O2]
1311:00 Lunch Coffee break
Session-2 Discussion of Key Technology Areas
1411:00 30 Technology overview: what needs to be decided? (Roy Williams) (Paper PDF)
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11:20 50 Key Area-1 : Receiving and Processing the Data Flow (led by Stephen Smartt)
LSST public and private; galaxies, stars and rocks (Stephen Smartt) (Paper PDF)
Lasair ingestion with SSD (Ken Smith) (paper)
Handling light curves (Roy Williams) (Paper PDF)
Parallel ingestion and workflow (Roy Williams) (Paper PDF)
Streaming queries (Gareth Francis)
Making a super Sherlock (Ken Smith) (paper)
15:10 12:40 lunch break
13:20 Key Area-2: Databases, Storage, Internal Structure (led by Ken)
MySQL vs Cassandra, query languages (Ken Smith) (paper)
Blob storage requirements and technology (Gareth) (Paper PDF)
Tea Break
16:20 14:10 Key Area-3: User services - querying, extraction, analysis (led by Roy)
Light curve classification and features (Michael) (paper)
Lasair and the LSST Science Platform (Stelios) (Presentation PDF)
Tues evening: Pub dinner for those who wish15:00 tea break
Session-3 Key Technologies review (Stephen)
0915:30 20 Recap of Day-1 discussions
0915:50 40 Debate the key technology decisions
10:30 Conclude as many as possible
11:00 coffee break
Session-4 Conclusions (Andy)
1116:20 Conclude as many as possible
16:40 Review remaining technology decisions
11:50 Set ; set further evaluations needed to conclude these
12:30
Discuss Outline Technology Design if time permits.
1317:00 lunchclose
Key area issues
As we step through the presentations on the Key Areas, we should decide and record the key technology decisions needed, but will actually decide them in the next dayclosing session. Each discussion will have some presentations will to be made available on the day, but the technology evaluation reports should be available in advance.
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