First Drafted 2006-03-02, Last Changed 2006-03-02, Version 0.0.1

NCess Node Jamboree Page

Andy Turner

The first NCeSS Node Jamboree took place in Manchester 2006-02-02 to 2006-03-03.

Notes

Laptops and PDAs were against the rules! I was granted special dispensation to use a laptop for working on 2006-03-03. All was going well until an emergency evacuation...

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/staff/tam.html
http://www.uni-koblenz.de/FB4/Institutes/IWVI/AGTroitzsch/People/KlausGTroitzsch/
http://www.essa.eu.org/
http://www.essa.eu.org/modules.php?name=Calendar&op=modload&file=index&type=view&eid=63
http://www.paaa.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wcss06/others/WCSS06-2ndCFP_draft.pdf
Kaizen agent model Takao TERANO
David Batten - one of Alan Wilsons old crew Y http://www.cmit.csiro.au/home/contacts/resume.cfm?id=438
Interesting that David Clarke was here. We have met because of my mother Jane Turner. One of mine and David's common interests is road accidents.
http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a057857
email notes to gillian

Visualisation

Andy Hudson-Smith

For more information see the NCeSS wiki

Discussion

Aim to visualise large social science datasets over the web
Provide open access to tools
WMS and WFS
Virtual London
- uses GeoTools
- Renders data ontop of Google Maps
- It works and is reasonably quick
- Enabling shapefiles to be loaded
- Second phase is to use Google Earth and ArcExplorer this is just beginning... Moving to use ArcExplorer for convenience and functionality...
- The entire thing works over http using tomcat
- Richard has written the code Andy has directed
James Macgill works with Google now
Google maps API keeps changing
Is it possible to use the Grid as a big render farm? If not, why not? If so, how?

How can the grid support visualisation applications?

Not clear how WMS WFS WPS WCS fits in with "The Grid" as it is all done with Web based protocols
How can others visualise their data using our tools?
As a back end server...

What 3D Graphics tools are being used?

Not clear how WMS WFS WPS WCS fits in with "The Grid" as it is all done with Web based protocols
Provide open access to tools

Collaboration

12 People

Need for web based information
Need to generate understanding between the computer scientists and application scientists
Clashes of terminology
Anne Manuel captured overhead on camera and will email picture...