EXPReS Annual Review - 2007 April 17

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


(some of) The Faces of EXPReSIntroduction


EXPReS TimelineIntroduction


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


• 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


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



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



GEANT2NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review


SURFNet6NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review


PIONEERNA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review


AARNet3NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review


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


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


ESA 2002


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



NA3- e-VLBI Observation• The e-VLBI observation schedule is coordinated via the eVSAG

chair. Summary of past year's observation schedule:


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.


Science PublicationsNA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review


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



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.



General PublicationsNA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review


EXPReS Project Site- wikiNA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review


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



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



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



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.

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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


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


EXPReSConclusion

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EXPReS Annual Review - 2007 April 17