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EXPReS Annual Review- 2007 April 17
NA's- Past 12 Month OverviewT. Charles Yun
EXPReS Project TeamJIVE, Coordinating Institution
EXPReS is made possible through the support of the European Commission (DG-INFSO), Sixth Framework Programme, Contract #026642
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 2
Agenda
09:00-09:30 Introductions / Overview09:30-11:00 EXPReS Summary for Past 12 Months
20 NA1/NA2/NA3/NA4- Network Activities and Management20 SA1- Production e-VLBI Service20 SA2- Network Provision for a Global e-VLBI Array20 JRA1- Future Arrays of Broadband Radio Telescop on Internet Computing
11:00-11:15 Break11:15-11:45 External User: Benefits and capabilities of e-VLBI11:45-12:30 Comments from E.C. on morning12:30-13:15 Lunch13:15-14:00 Financial Overview for Past 12 Months14:00-15:15 Overview of project next 18 Months15:15-16:00 Open Discussion16:00-16:20 Reviewer Internal Meeting16:20-16:30 First Feedback to the team
16:30 Conclusion / End of First Year Review
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 5
NA1- Management of I3• Distribution of Period 1 funding (covered later)• Board Meeting
• Selection of Chair and Vice-Chair• Confirmation of Coordinator
• Project Kickoff Meeting• Basic communication pathways for the project
• Contact names/info, mailing lists• Addendum to the Consortium Agreement• Makeup of the Project Office
• Reporting, communications
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 6
• Project Coordinator• Mike Garrett, Huib Jan van Langevelde• The switch has been signaled to the EC and the Project
Office has received a letter recognizing the change.• Administrative Assistant
• Diana van Dijk (month 1)• Project Manager
• T. Charles Yun (month 6)
• With the completion of the full project office, communication and reporting with the EC should be more effective and reliable
NA1- the Project OfficeNA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 7
NA1- Amendment to Consort. Agmt• Changes to the Consortium Agreement were proposed at the
Board Meeting• Creating a formal Amendment was the procedural solution• The board discussed the text to be modified as well as the
reasons and reasoning for the changes• In total, eight amendments were accepted and verbally approved
by the board• A "signable" legal document followed after several cycles of
legal formatting• All partners have signed the Consortium Agreement as well as
the Amendment to the Consortium Agreement • Copies of the signed documents are held by the Project
Office
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 8
NA2- EVN-NREN Forum• EVN-NREN = European VLBI Network - National Research and Education
Networks• John Chevers, DANTE• Purpose:
• Support and encourage discussion on topics relating to network implementation of telescopes and performance experienced by e-VLBI traffic between members of the astronomy and networking communities
• Activities• EVN-NREN Meeting, May 2006• NREN cooperation with SMART-1 observation
• NREN Partners• GEANT2 (Europe) via DANTE• SURFnet6 (Netherlands) via SURFnet• PIONEER (Poland) via PSNC• AARNet3 (Australia) via AARNet• South American network’s participation in SMART-1
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
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List of 19 NRENs
# Participant NREN
1 JIVE SURFnet
2 AARNET AARNet
3 DANTE n/a
4 PSNC PSNC/PIONEER
5 SURFnet SURFnet
6 ASTRON SURFnet
7 CNIG-IGN RedIRIS
8 CSIRO AARNet
9 HRAO-NRF TENET
10 INAF GARR
11 MPG (1) DFN
11 MPG (2) Jülich
12 TKK Funet / CSC
13 CORNELL (1) PRISA (Puerto Rico Internet Services Association)
13 CORNELL (2) FIU (Florida International University)
14 UMK PIONEER
15 OSO (1) SUNET
15 OSO (2) NORDUunet
16 SHAO CSTNET
17 UDEC (1) REUNA
17 UDEC (2) RedCLARA
18 UNIMAN UKERNA
19 VeA/VIRAC (1) LATNET
19 VeA/VIRAC (2) GEANT
19 VeA/VIRAC (3) GEANT
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 14
SMART-1 Observation, 2006 Sept• e-VLBI is used to monitor SMART-1’s
controlled impact on the surface of the moon.
• Radio telescopes, led by European radio astronomers from JIVE recorded key data during its final moments and impact.
• Successes:• 10 usec accuracy of impact (+/- 2 cm)• Networked transport of data• Coordination and cooperation between
telescopes, astronomers and inter/national backbone networks
• e-VLBI in support of space operations
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
ESA 2002
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 15
NA3- eVSAG• eVSAG = e-VLBI Science Advisory Group• John Conway• Purpose
• to be a forum to discuss the science use of e-VLBI, give a user perspective on the relative priorities for technical development and give science-based policy advice to other parts of EXPReS or the EVN in general
• Meetings• e-VLBI progress and strategy to the EVN board of directors;
Florence, Italy; May 2006• e-VLBI update to the EVN board of directors, Dwingeloo,
the Netherlands, Nov 2006• eVSAG meeting; Dwingeloo, the Netherlands; Nov 2006
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 16
NA3- e-VLBI Observation• The e-VLBI observation schedule is coordinated via the eVSAG
chair. Summary of past year's observation schedule:
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
16 Mar 2006 Technical operations, 5 antennas at 128 Mbps
20 Apr 2006 Gave published observations (Tudose, et al. and Rushton, et al.)
18 May 2006 Six station fringes at 256 Mbps (CM, JB, MC, ON, TR, WB). First ever European 512 Mbps e-VLBI fringes on the Jodrell Bank - Westerbork baseline. 13-hours science project without major problems.
21 August 2006 We had the first 512 Mbp fringes between three European stations: Cambridge, Onsala and Westerbork. We also got fringes for the first time between Cambridge, Medicina and Westerbork using Medicina’s new 5 GHz receiver.
26 October 2006 New correlator control computer. First time to run the science experiments at 256 Mbps. Two projects that targeted the X-ray binary LSI +61.303, and the eclipsing binary system Algol. Both of the targets were nicely detected in the data analysis pipeline.
14 December 2006 Test went extremely smoothly, three science projects. 6 stations easily participated at 256 Mbps.
29 January - 1 February 2007
Set up as a double adaptive run (29 January - 1 February) with the first run used to select targets for the second run. 6 stations participated at 256 Mbps. The reduction strategy worked well, and pipeline maps were produced for 14 out of 16 sources by the end of the first run. Unfortunately, none of the sources were found to be in an active state. On 2 February, all telescopes observed a calibrator source for one hour at 512 Mbpsto produce the first map at 512 Mbps.
20 February 2007 512 Mbps data rate was again achieved from fives stations.
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 17
Science PublicationsNA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 18
NA4- Public Outreach• Purpose:
• to develop a coherent and visible outreach programme profiling EXPReS to astronomers, diverse researchers and the general public both nationally and internationally
• Activity highlights:• General project website • Project wiki with public and secured areas• Press releases, posters, support for news and radio articles• Project brochure, distributed to partners
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 19
EXPReS Public Online Presence http://www.expres-eu.org/
• The EXPReS website is the public’s interface into the project. From this point general, scientific and technical information is accessible.
• Many of the physical publications produced by the project are available for download
• The EXPReS wiki is a dynamic forum where project members create and edit project related information.
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 20
General PublicationsNA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 21
EXPReS Project Site- wikiNA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 22
NA1 DeliverablesD# A AD# Descrip Plan Actual
D32 NA1 NA1.01 Annual report (incl. Financial information) to EC 12 13
D81 NA1 NA1.02 Annual report (incl. Financial information) to EC 24
D111 NA1 NA1.03 Annual report (incl. Financial information) to EC 36
D112 NA1 NA1.04 Final Report to Board and EC 36
D113 NA1 NA1.05 Final Plan for using and disseminating knowledge 36
D114 NA1 NA1.06 Implementation of the Gender Action Plan 36
D115 NA1 NA1.07 Raising public participation and awareness 36
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 23
NA2 DeliverablesD# A AD# Descrip Plan Actual
D4 NA2 NA2.01EVN-NREN meeting No. 1 (under auspices of EXPReS) (minutes) 3 6
D31 NA2 n/a NA2 annual report No. 2 (as part of EXPReS Ann. Rep No. 2) 24
D33 NA2 NA2.02 NA2 annual report No. 1 (as part of EXPReS Ann. Rep No. 1) 12 13
D48 NA2 NA2.03 EVN-NREN meeting No. 2 18
D82 NA2 NA2.04 NA2 annual report No. 2 (as part of EXPReS Ann. Rep No. 2) 24
D88 NA2 NA2.05 EVN-NREN meeting No. 3 26
D89 NA2 NA2.06EVN-NREN representatives present EXPReS networking results at the e-VLBI Science & Technology Workshop 26
D90 NA2 n/a EVN-NREN meeting n/a
D116 NA2 NA2.07 NA2 annual & Final reports 36
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 24
NA3 DeliverablesD# A AD# Descrip Plan Actual
D6 NA3 NA3.1First meeting of eVSAG under auspices of EXPReS (minutes) 4 9
D46 NA3 NA3.2 eVSAG meeting No. 2 16
D91 NA3 NA3.3 eVSAG meeting No. 3 26
D94 NA3 NA3.4 e-VLBI Workshop held in Onsala 30
D107 NA3 NA3.5 Publication of e-VLBI Workshop proceedings 32
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 25
NA4 DeliverablesD# A AD# Descrip Plan Actual
D1 NA4 NA4.01 Creation of Public EXPReS web-site 2 1
D7 NA4 NA4.02 Creation of EXPReS web-based management tools 4 4
D10 NA4 NA4.03
Generation of PR material (phase 1: logos and posters, PowerPoint template, press releases and news clippings, brochure) 6 1
D34 NA4 NA4.04e-VLBI Demonstration and attendance at Network events (events, presentations) 12 12
D49 NA4 NA4.05 Generation of new PR material (phase 2: display stand and merchandise) 18
D83 NA4 NA4.06 e-VLBI Demonstration and attendance at Network events. 24
D117 NA4 NA4.07 e-VLBI Demonstration and attendance at network events.
36
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 26
Agenda
09:00-09:30 Introductions / Overview09:30-11:00 EXPReS Summary for Past 12 Months
20 NA1/NA2/NA3/NA4- Network Activities and Management20 SA1- Production e-VLBI Service20 SA2- Network Provision for a Global e-VLBI Array20 JRA1- Future Arrays of Broadband Radio Telescop on Internet Computing
11:00-11:15 Break11:15-11:45 External User: Benefits and capabilities of e-VLBI11:45-12:30 Comments from E.C. on morning12:30-13:15 Lunch13:15-14:00 Financial Overview for Past 12 Months14:00-15:15 Overview of project next 18 Months15:15-16:00 Open Discussion16:00-16:20 Reviewer Internal Meeting16:20-16:30 First Feedback to the team
16:30 Conclusion / End of First Year Review
2007 April 17 EXPReS Annual Review Slide #: 27
Conclusion
Questions/Answers• Contact information
T. Charles YunProject ManagerEXPReS (JIVE)tcyun at jive dot nl
• Additional Informationhttp://expres-eu.org/ [note: only one “s”]http://www.jive.nl/
• EXPReS is made possible through the support of the European Commission (DG-INFSO), Sixth Framework Programme, Contract #026642