Theory in the Virtual Observatory
April 7-9, 2008
The Virtual Observatory is an
international astronomical community-based initiative.
It aims to allow global electronic access to the available astronomical
data archives
of space and ground-based observatories, as well as simulation
databases. It also aims to enable data analysis techniques through a
coordinating entity that will provide common standards,
wide-network bandwidth, and state-of-the-art analysis tools.
VO efforts have mainly concentrated on observational data archives and
services, but
recently results from theoretical research, especially simulation have
started attracting
more attention.
The main goal of this workshop is to outline needs and
challenges that
computational and theoretical astrophysics will be facing in the coming
years, and to identify
how the unique capabilities intrinsic to the Virtual Observatory concept
can meet them.
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Grid and the Virtual Observatory
April 9-11, 2008
The Virtual Observatory is rapidly evolving as a
fundamental tool for the astronomical community. It may be seen as
a Grid of federated astronomical databases. To process the huge amount of
data residing in the Virtual Observatory it is necessary to provide an
adequate amount of resources. The combination of the VObs and of the
Grid technology is the right answer to this issue offering at the same
time a complete and integrated working environment to the Astronomical
and Astrophysical community.
The main goal of the workshop is to contribute to the
integration of the Virtual Observatory and Grid e-science
infrastructures and to the development of new Grid-aware astronomical
applications. This workshop aims at contributing to the adoption of Grid
and Virtual Observatory technologies by the Astronomical Data Centers.
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