"Distributed Centre of Excellence" is the best phrase. The presentation
makes an excellent argument for a Starlink-like entity to support data
processing for AstroGRID. It's amazing no-one else thought of that.
Starlink have to point this inconsistency out to PPARC.
Tim
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
> > http://casse.ast.cam.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/Community/VOProcPlus20031028
> >
> > but Starlink were left out.
>
> Needs acroread. Using Xpdf I see lots of mathematical symbols and
> numbers scattered about...
>
> No mention of Starlink or ORAC-DR under the "Leverages Existing
> Investment" which might have been included under the infrastructure and
> projects. They've leapt on to many of our concepts and approaches,
> without any credit. I felt that we made some progress at ADASS to break
> down the prejudice held in AstroGrid circles that because we're existing
> for twenty-odd years we're some unchanging dinosaur that has no place in
> modern astronomical data processing. Yet some of the VEGA players have
> been around that long too. From the community and science programme
> aspects, it's silly to ignore our expertise and code. I hope the Geddes
> review considers both the available resources as well as the science
> requirements. The move to Java showed we do adapt to the times unlike
> certain other reduction systems.
>
> I also noticed that WASP contribution doesn't admit that the consortium
> used Starlink infrastructure to make the project viable.
>
> Malcolm
>
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