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600 - Support activities

This work package groups several support activities needed for the development of the tasks in the rest of WPs: This includes:

  • The products of the project should be available in time for the first release of Gaia data (around mid 2015, according to the present previsions) so they can be used for the actual archive at ESAC. At such stage the systems and tools should be fully tested. For this purpose a specific work-package is devoted to the provision of simulated data for testing and development. These simulations can be provided by the groups already working in this task in the frame of the DPAC consortium.
  • In order to integrate and test the system developed and its associated tools a hardware testbed is needed. This testbed will not be purchased but rather the resources of a computing centre hosting the suitable hardware (storage, nodes and database system) will be hired in an “as-needed” basis. This will give more flexibility, allowing to adapt the resources to the evolution of the development.

  • The technological expertise of some leading companies of the IT sector will be injected in the project through the hiring of consultancy or support services from them.

Role of CESCA and Intersystems

  • Edinburgh will be developing the archive system and, based on the current ESAC work, a serious contender for the database engine and some exploitation tools will be Intersystems. Therefore I propose that they provide two licenses (one for development at Edinburgh and another for the CESCA testbed) plus support for the work (intensive at start up and during heavy load testing, and regular mail/phone support the rest of the time)
  • The role of CESCA would be to provide a testbed where the system developed at Edinburgh can be installed so the rest of GENIUS participants and other uses can carry on tests of their tools or simply use the database as scientists. This will require some small-medium setup for most of the time, plus some large disk space and system towards the end if we want to do tests with full data and heavy usage
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Topic revision: r3 - 2011-10-14 - XaviLuri
 
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