SPACIOUS Kick Off Meeting

Europe/Madrid
ICCUB

ICCUB

Martí Franquès, 1. 7th floor 08028 Barcelona
Description

 

This is the Kick Off Meeting of the SPACIOUS project. The SPACIOUS project aims to boost the scientific exploitation of ESA mission data by offering a new computational framework for astrophysical research that requires Big Data and Data Mining technologies to be employed. SPACIOUS will raise the competitiveness of the EU scientific community by increasing the Big Data and Data Mining expertise and providing easier access to these techniques.
To reach this goal SPACIOUS aims to combine existing technologies in a new Data Mining environment to enable the analysis of ESA missions’ data up to a level which is not possible without a dedicated infrastructure. The ambition
of SPACIOUS is to open this platform to the community, while at the same time exploiting the data by developing astrophysical research, in collaboration with external scientific teams. The main idea is to facilitate and open the analysis of ESA archives to the scientific community in new ways. SPACIOUS
will make the difference by providing access to the data and, at the same time, providing the infrastructure, tools and methods to analyse these data. SPACIOUS will be the tool enabling Big Data analysis of ESA data products. Furthermore, we expect SPACIOUS to make a change by influencing the future way to treat data in space science.
A key part of the project is to produce scientific value (publications, enhanced data products and knowledge). We will face major scientific research data problems (challenges) whose analysis will be, per se, a key result of SPACIOUS.
Four of these challenges will be defined internally (based on the exploitation of the massive Gaia and Euclid datasets) and used to drive the design requirements of the system, serving as test cases and technology demonstrators of the Big Data Analytics Framework (BDAF). In a second phase we will open the system to the community through an Open Call for proposals and will select the most relevant (both scientifically and technically) challenges submitted for their implementation.

This is a internal Consortium meeting. By invitation only.

This project is a Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-71 project funded under grant agreement no. 101135205.

Participants
  • Agustin Pane
  • Albert Masip
  • André Moitinho
  • Carlos Dafonte
  • Javier Castañeda Pons
  • Jordi Portell
  • Lola Balaguer
  • Marco A. Álvarez
  • Minia Manteiga
  • Nadia Tonello
  • Nigel Hambly
  • Przemyslaw Bartczak
  • Sandra Martin
  • Sergi Bartolomé Muñoz
  • Stelios Voutsinas
  • Toni Santana-Ros
  • Zoran Kovac
  • Tuesday, January 23
    • 1
      Welcome and practicalities
      Speaker: Xavier Luri
    • 2
      HadeA presentation
      Speaker: Zoran Kovac
    • 3
      Administrative guidelines
    • 11:00 AM
      Coffee break
    • 4
      Planning (review and detailed definition)

      Hiring
      Meetings
      Development
      Challenges
      Etc

    • 1:00 PM
      Lunch break
    • Computational resources
      • 5
        Available cloud services and resources at BSC (Agustín, BSC)
      • 6
        UK Gaia data mining platform: deploying the Apache-Spark based GDAF on OpenStack cloud infrastructure, features, limitations (Nigel, UEDIN)
      • 7
        Issues that are arising regarding scaling this up to many users and very large data sets in the context of “bursty” resource requirements (Nigel, all)
      • 8
        GaiaUB experience with the BSC system: deployment of GDAF/BGMfast (Javi, UB)
      • 9
        Commercial cloud deployments: experience and options (Xavier, UB)
      • 10
        Discussion and prioritisation of actions, +AOB (all)
    • 3:30 PM
      Coffee break
    • 11
      Outreach
  • Wednesday, January 24
    • 12
      SPACIOUS Science
    • 13
      Coordination with ESA (Jos de Bruijne)
    • 11:00 AM
      Extended Coffee break
    • 14
      External Advisory Board
    • 1:00 PM
      Lunch break
    • 15
      Wrap up
    • 16
      Time for meetings on specific subjects

      Maybe a visit to MareNostrum 5?