This is a self enclosed wiki page containing the agenda and all the supplied review documentation. It is openly publicly viewable.
Purpose and Goals of the Meeting
The Technology Review is one of four goals of our Cycle-1 plan for Lasair-LSST development. So far, we have a mature working prototype (Lasair-ZTF); clear science requirements; a high-level technology-free component and flow design; and a long term development plan, broken into six monthly cycles. The next step is to take some key baseline technology decisions, so that we can undertake detailed technical design and development. This meeting is intended therefore as a relatively lightweight, semi-formal preliminary Technical Design Review. The goals are to:
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. One (See information on Visiting IfA)
The meeting is roughly one day spread over two.
Tues March 17th 11:00 -6:00pm
Informal pub dinner planned
Wed March 18th 9:00am - 1:00pm
An informal pub dinner is planned for Tuesday evening.
Session-1:
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Introduction and Context
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For general context, see papers O1-O6 below
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Key Area-1 : Receiving and Processing the Data Flow XXX
initial summary …LSST public and private; galaxies, stars and rocks (Stephen) (paper)
Lasair ingestion with SSD (Ken) (paper)
Handling light curves (Roy) (paper)
Parallel ingestion and workflow (Roy) (paper)
Streaming queries (Gareth)
Making a super Sherlock (Ken) (paper)
Key Area-2: Databases, Storage, Internal Structure XXX
initial summary ….MySQL vs Cassandra, query languages (Ken) (paper)
Blob storage requirements and technology (Gareth) (summary)
Key Area-3: User services - querying, extraction, analysis XXX
initial summary …Light curve classification and features (Michael) (paper)
Lasair and the LSST Science Platform (Stelios, Bob, George …)
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 the next day.
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