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Subject:	Data Infrastructure Meeting
Date:	Sun, 23 Nov 2014 17:45:52 +0000
From:	Dr Jeremy Yates <[log in to unmask]>
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The rough agenda is


Dear PDG-ers and BiG Data-ers, please find the Agenda for the PDG Workshop on Data Infrastructure below.

The meeting will be at the Wellcome Building on Euston Road
                                                    

Coffee 10:00
Introduction 1020  (Jeremy Yates, DIRAC and PDG)

Definitions and Ideas

Four Talks will be presented that will incorporate one of the following 4 themes. 

Confirmed Speakers are: Tim Hubbard (GEL), GRIDPP (TBA), STFC SCD (TBA).

1030 - Data Movement
1050 - Data Compression
1120 - Accessing Sections of Data
1140 - Meta Data - Creation, Storage and Query

Capturing end "user" needs

1200 - 4 streams on the above topics.     There are multiple users to consider - academic and systems folk

1300 - Lunch

1400 - The RCUK view (Fiona Armstrong, ESRC & RCUK)

Imagining the Infrastructure

1430 - 4 Streams - ideas for infrastructure, what can we do in common, what must we do that is domain specific?
1530 - Tea

1600 - Reports from the 4 streams
1630 - Drawing it together and agreeing suggestions for our writing-up workshop on 15 December

1700 - Close

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Dr Jeremy Yates
Senior Research Fellow
Director, STFC DiRAC HPC Facility (www.dirac.ac.uk)
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University College London
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