Hello all, Just a clarification, PS are using Oracle for the Pan-STARRS PS system (can't remember the acronym, but it is for publishing data). The MOPS system may not use Oracle.
Jeff > From: Bongki Moon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: LSST Data Management <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:20:05 -0700 (MST) > To: LSST Data Management <[email protected]> > Subject: [LSST-data] Minutes of UA CS MOPS meeting for 05/23, 2006 > > Minutes for UA MOPS meeting, May 23, 2006 > > In attendance: > Tim Axelrod, Kobus Barnard, Jeffrey Kantor, Bongki Moon, Scott Morris, > Francesco Pierfederici, Praveen Rao > > Main points: > > o We discussed getting access PS data and code bases, as the LSST-PS > agreement has been reached. Francesco is expected to help us on this one > by understanding the PS solar system simulation and data from it. > > o One of the main items for the next week will be to help Francesco catch > up with what has been done so far (and what is in the SPIE paper). > > o Francesco briefly described the Trojan search project at Europe, whose > goal is to identify/detect moving objects by directly working on > image files. Francesco will send us references. > > o We discussed possible license to the JPL orbit fitting package and > the need of benchmarking for performance evaluation, in comparison with > open source codes such as OrFit. Tim said that preference should be given > to open source, and Kobus pointed out the OrBit Scott has been using > is written in Fortan and buggy. Anyhow, we agreed that we should decide > eariler than later. > > o Jeff said that PS-MOPS might adopt Oracle database for its spatio-temporal > features to maintain moving object databases. We don't have to go with > their decision on the choice of a database system, but we certainly don't > want to re-invent everything. We asked Francesco to provide us with > more information from PS. > > o Praveen reported that the SPIE poster was ready. > > o Scott briefly discussed the progress of his simulation. > > o Tim pointed us to the successor of the MACHO project (SEKS?) as a good > source of data sets. > > _______________________________________________ > LSST-data mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lsstmail.org/mailman/listinfo/lsst-data > _______________________________________________ LSST-data mailing list [email protected] http://www.lsstmail.org/mailman/listinfo/lsst-data
