[I replied separately to Dave G but realise I should have copied to
everyone]
The ORACDR part of AGII is interesting. You might want to note that it is
a generic pipleine rather than tied to a particular telescope. You should
also mention that it can handle data from UKIRT, JCMT, GEMINI and AAT. In
response to Nic's comments at the bottom, he does not seem to understand
that ORACDR is run by users in England not just at the telescope. Also he
is not distinguishing generic pipelines from pipelines linked to data
products. I'm a bit annoyed that VDFS is deemed to be a separate pipeline
since the WFCAM version of it uses ORAC-DR (it's written by Cambridge) but
it seems lilke they are writing their own pipeline anyway.
Nic also fails to realise that pipeline control means that you can run the
pipeline on your own desktop but have all the data processing and data be
present at the data centre. ie you do not need to upload code to the data
centre, just the core algorithms. The control code is local and you pass
around the meta data. This is the cool bit. Not simply running a load of
pipelines at the data centres.
A reference to Brad's ADASS paper on using ORACDR with different
telescopes might also be appropriate.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2003adass..12..237C&db_key=AST&high=3ecd802e2126547
There is also an implication ORAC-DR will need to be extended to work from
intermediate data products and not just raw data.
Tim
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Giaretta, DL (David) wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I have significantly changed and put more details in the AstroGrid 2 bid -
> see section 4.2 and its sub-sections in
> http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/AG2/AgVirObInf I believe that it now fits
> in better with the rest of the AstroGrid bid and clarifies and reduces
> apparent overlap with other areas.
>
> I have also added to the ESO bid - see
> http://wiki.starlink.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/Starlink/ESODataProcessing
>
> I'd appreciate comments on both ASAP, and those who can, please add things
> directly to the ESO bid document.
>
> ..David
>
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Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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