SPACIOUS Midterm Meeting

18 Jun 2025, 08:50 → 20 Jun 2025, 17:00 Europe/Madrid

CITIC, A Coruña

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.

 

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.

Organised by the CITIC and the Universidade da Coruña.

 

 

Right of information in relation to the data processing SPACIOUS.pdf

Wednesday 18 June

08:50 → 09:00 Welcome and practicalities (Carlos Dafonte)

09:00 → 09:30 SPACIOUS Overview and status review (Xavier Luri)

09:30 → 10:00 WP2 Scientific exploitation (Alfred Castro)

10:00 → 10:30 WP3 Big Data infrastructure: Design and hosting (Oscar Reina)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 WP4 Big Data in the cloud (Nigel Hambly)

11:30 → 12:00 WP5 User Framework (Marco A. Álvarez)

12:00 → 12:30 WP6 Data provision and management (Nadia Tonello)

12:30 → 13:00 WP7 Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation (André Moitinho)

13:00 → 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 → 15:30 SPACIOUS Next Steps (Xavier Luri)

15:30 → 16:30 Questions (All)

20:00 → 21:00 Social dinner

Thursday 19 June

09:30 → 10:30 Cloud platforms (BSC, UK, Google)

09:30 Private Cloud resources: review of where we are with OpenStack based resources in the UK (Arcus and Somerville) and BSC (nCloud2); discussion to include comparison between them and expectations (MI & NT)

Speaker: Malcolm Illingworth (UEDIN)

09:50 Google Cloud: who is doing what, and outline plan for development and implementation phases

Speaker: Eduardo Belotto (ICCUB)

10:10 Git tutorial

Speaker: Daniel Garabato (UDC)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Scientific challenges

11:00 Technical hackathon: open forum on what everybody has been doing with the prototype platform, share experiences, feedback to WP3, issues to be addressed etc. (All)

12:00 Possible dissemination of the challenges (AC + AM)

12:30 → 13:00 Tools I

12:30 Platform update: what’s new

Speaker: Brendan O'Brien (UEDIN)

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:45 Tools II

14:30 Data storage developments: partitioning and other data arrangement considerations

Speaker: Nigel Hambly (UEDIN)

15:00 GANDALF and GUASOM main tutorials

Speaker: Ángel Regueiro (UDC)

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 16:20 WP7: Overview and plan

16:20 → 16:30 Dissemination

16:20 Dissemination materials

16:25 Presentations at meetings

16:30 → 16:50 Communication: SPACIOUS and Society

16:30 Online presence

16:35 Interaction with other teams and projects

16:40 Activities for schools

16:45 Citizen science

16:50 → 16:55 WP7: next steps

Friday 20 June

09:00 → 11:00 Wrap up and small groups working time

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 13:00 Next steps: review of the planning and set a tight schedule

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break