GENIUS Milestones

Milestone N.	Milestone name	WP	Lead beneficiary	Delivery date	Comments
MS1	Kick-off meeting (plenary)	WP1	UB	01/11/2013	Meeting took place 4-5 Dec 2013
MS2	Agreed testbed environment with ESAC-SAT & CU9	WP3	UEDIN	01/02/2014	The testbed for Archive development has been agreed with SAT. And is based on the Gaia Archive Core System (GACS) described at the CU9 SDP..
MS3	Hiring of main developers	WP1, WP2, WP3, WP5, WP4, WP6, WP7	UB	01/06/2014
MS4	GENIUS portal available at CESCA for internal use	WP6, WP7	CSUC	01/04/2014	Two GENIUS portal developed at CESCA: one dedicated to the project and one for more general dissemination.
MS5	Archive user requirements document	WP2	UL	01/10/2014
MS6	Requirements document for each subsystem	WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5	UB	01/10/2014	WP3 SRS
MS7	Public version of GENIUS portal	WP6, WP7	CSUC	01/10/2014	Public version of GENIUS portal
MS8	Mid-term review	WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5, WP6, WP7	UB	01/06/2015	Plenary meeting to take place in Sept in Barcelona. Mid term review in Nov. 2015 in Leiden (agreed with PO during the 1st year review)
MS9	User prototype archive review	WP2, WP3	UEDIN	01/10/2015	Completed (with delay, as described in the previous report) by the beta-testing group of the Gaia archive.
MS10	Exploitation tools review	WP2, WP4	UB	01/10/2015	Specific session during CU9 plenary meeting Sept. 2015: https://gaia.am.ub.es/Twiki/bin/view/GENIUS/PlenaryMeeting2015
MS11	Validation tools review	WP2, WP5	CNRS	01/10/2015	Specific session during CU9 plenary meeting Sept. 2015: https://gaia.am.ub.es/Twiki/bin/view/GENIUS/PlenaryMeeting2015
MS12	Prototype archive tools open to community	WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5, WP6, WP7	UB	01/10/2015	User testing will allow to give the necessary feedback on the archive tools which have been developed. Most Gaia data will not be available at the date of the milestone, but the testing will nevertheless be possible by providing access to simulated data. In order to get a feedback as large as possible on the archive tools, the access will be given to a large panel of users within and outside the Gaia community. They will e.g. be selected among the users having made requirements proposals (cf. GAIA-C9-TN-LEI-AB-026-1).
MS13	Stress test	WP3	UEDIN	01/09/2016	A test suite has been designed to stress test the system and details of this along with results for the GENIUS prototype querying system are in the process of being documented (http://gaia.esac.esa.int/dpacsvn/DPAC/CU9/docs/WP930_Architecture/nonECSS/TechNotes/GAIA-C9-TN-IFA-STV-001/GAIA-C9-TN-IFA-STV-001.pdf) Formal attainment of milestone MS13 has been delayed to the end of the year (31/12/2016) owing to delays in prototype deployment of the full distributed querying system. These delays were caused in part by refactoring of the various subsystems into Docker-deployable containers along with higher priority work in collaboration with Gaia DPAC CU9 and ESAC-ESDC concerning Gaia DR1 data model issues and VO integration work (content descriptors and ADQL language etc.)
MS14	Load of actual Gaia data	WP3, WP5	CNRS	01/01/2017	Load of actual Gaia data
MS15	Completion meeting & final external review	WP1	UB	01/03/2017
MS16	GENIUS products availability	WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5, WP6, WP7	UB	01/04/2017	GENIUS products availability
MS17	Handover of GENIUS portal to Gaia community	WP7	CSUC	01/04/2017	Handover of GENIUS portal to Gaia community

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-SPACE-2013-1) under grant agreement n°606740.