NEXPReS Fourth Quarterly Report (April-June 2011) -- DRAFT --
Final text for the Fourth Quarterly Report is due Fri 24 Jun 2011
Note, that this quarterly report will evolve into the full Annual Report that we submit to the Commission for our Period 1 Review.
Introduction / Project Summary
Summary
This is the report for the end of the XX period (months #-#).
Overall Deliverables Status and Timeline
Link to the Deliverables Table
Deliverables due during the XX reporting quarter:
The following deliverables were submitted to and their receipt acknowledged by the Commission during this quarter:
Deliverable Number and Description | confirmed on 1) |
D5.2 Metrics, selection criteria and user feedback | 11 Jan 2011 |
D7.1 Workflow Manager requirements from telescope operators | 04 Jan 2011 |
D7.2 Workflow Manager requirements from correlator operators | 25 Jan 2011 |
D8.1 Interface design document of storage element API | 25 Jan 2011 |
D8.2 Hardware design document for simultaneous I/O storage elements | 8 Mar 2011 |
WP 1 - Management
Activities of Note
internal prep for annual report
date selected: 2011 Sep 08 Thu
presentation group identified: Huib, Ralph, Charles, Arpad, Ari, Yvonne (6 total)
Deliverables Status Update
WP hosted meetings
support for Aveiro meeting, participation by EC, NEXPReS, JIVE and e-VLBI community.
Publications, Presentations and Talks
WP 2 - EVN-NREN
Activities of Note
Deliverables Status Update
WP hosted meetings
Publications, Presentations and Talks
WP 3 - eVSAG
Activities of Note
Deliverables Status Update
WP hosted meetings
Publications, Presentations and Talks
WP 4 - Communications
Activities of Note
Support was provided by WP4 for the workshop “The Growing Demand on Connectivity and Information Processing in RadioAstronomy from VLBI to SKA” (VLBI2SKA) in Aveiro, Portugal, in May.
The NEXPReS display was installed at the VLBI2SKA workshop . Efforts have been made to send the display to other major astronomy and networking conferences, but exhibit and shipping costs were prohibitively expensive.
Brochures were on exhibit at VLBI2SKA (Aveiro, May), EGI User Forum (Vilnius, April 2011), TNC2011 (Prague, May 2011) and EUNIS (Dublin, June 2011).
Although not an official NEXPReS deliverable, the Public Outreach Office has been working this quarter on a video that will, among other things, provide a visual explanation of e-VLBI which can be used in presentations and other outreach activities.
Deliverables Status Update
There were no deliverables due for WP4 in this period.
WP hosted meetings
No meetings are necessary for this work package.
Publications, Presentations and Talks
Publications and presentations are not usually made under this work package, but those from other work packages this quarter have been posted to the Papers and Presentations page on the project web site.
WP 5 - Cloud Correlation
Activities of Note
Deliverables Status Update
WP hosted meetings
Publications, Presentations and Talks
WP 6 - High Bandwidth on Demand
Activities of Note
Deliverables Status Update
WP hosted meetings
Publications, Presentations and Talks
WP 7 - Computing in a Shared Infrastructure
Activities of Note
Deliverables Status Update
WP hosted meetings
Publications, Presentations and Talks
WP 8 - Provisioning High-Bandwidth, High-Capacity Networked Storage on Demand
Activities of Note
Preparation for the Period Review
Deliverables Status Update
WP hosted meetings
* support for SKA/e-VLBI, NEXPReS WP6/7/8 meeting; Aveiro, PT
* support for INGRID 2011, xref WP3
Publications, Presentations and Talks
* TERENA 2011, Prague, CZ
* SKA/e-VLBI, NEXPReS WP6/7/8 meeting; Aveiro, PT