SkyServerDatabasePast,Present,andFuture.pptVIP

SkyServer Database Past, Present, and Future Jim Gray: Microsoft Alex Szalay (and friends): Johns Hopkins Help from: Cathan Cook (personal SkyServer), Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban (image cutout service) Peter Kukol, Gyorgy Fekete, Wil O’Mullane (evolved HTM to native C#) Cesar Galindo-Legaria, Ming-Chuan Wu (statistics for optimizer) Promised Abstract Can database technology help manage and mine scientific data? That is the question I have been trying to answer with my astronomy colleagues (especially Alex Szalay.) We have had some success but still face many problems. I will start by describing the odyssey of putting the Sloan Digital Sky Survey online and give some statistics about how it is used and what we are doing now. That segment will end with a discussion of how the integration of SQL with the CLR (common language run time) makes it much easier for us to handle scientific datatypes and spatial access methods. The World-Wide Telescope is an attempt to federate all the astronomy archives of the world. I will briefly describe the architecture of SkyQuery a prototype portal to several archives each of which is a web service. Urls: /~gray /dr1/ http://skyQ Instructions from Last Year Less marketecture More Substance More demos and code SkyServer Overview (10 min) 10 minute SkyServer tour Pixel space /en/ Record space: /en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=2255030989160697 Doc space: Ned Set space: Web Query Logs: Dr1 WebService You can download (thanks to Cathan Cook ) Data + Database code: Website: Data Mining the SDSS SkyServer Database MSR-TR-2002-01 Cutout Service (10 min)A typical web service Show it Show WSDL Show fixing a bug Rush through code. You can download it.Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban did most of this (Alex and I started it) SkyQuery: / Distributed Query tool using a set of web services Four astronomy archives from Pasadena, Chicago, Baltimore, Cambridge (England). Feasibility study, built in 6 weeks