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There are two mailing lists available in STARnet for users and for developers.
Users should join the user list to be noti
ed of any critical issues or upcoming
changes and to have a say in the future development of STARnet. Submitting bug
reports and suggesting new features are important tasks to help improve the quality
and functionality of the gateways. This helps the project team and other contributors
to take action in the shortest possible time. If there is an area where a developer
wants to make a contribution, but there are no relevant tasks, then the STARnet
Developers List can be used to post a message asking for a new area to be created.
When submitting a request for a new feature, since each new feature requires its
own issue, it is added into an issue tracking system, so that the new feature can be
addressed separately by developers. It is up to the MB to determine when new
features are added, according to the agreed-upon development plans.
18.7 Conclusions and Future Developments
The STARnet federation of science gateways, which are oriented to astronomical
and astrophysical applications, started as a pilot project to create a shared envi-
ronment under a community-oriented technology.
We presented several applications related to scientific visualization, cosmolog-
ical simulation, stellar evolution, and comets as well as meteoroids dynamical
evolution developed and maintained in the
first core sites belonging to the feder-
ation. Those sites share applications, web services, and computing infrastructures,
while preserving the speci
fields served by the federation.
Planned future works include developing a number of new workflows such as
visualization-oriented workflows to be deployed for rapid discovery of supernova
light curve anomalies (SALT 2014) and validation of models reconstructing the
large-scale structure of the universe (GADGET 2014). Furthermore, workflows and
portlets to access astronomical archives using IVOA standards are planned to be
developed.
The constitution of the federation provides a great opportunity for scientists to
share their scienti
c needs of the scienti
c
fields and to train the user com-
munity under the same technological principles. This reduces the training time to
get used to the web framework and allows all the gateway facilities to run their
applications using diverse computing facilities without dealing with technical
details.
We intend to run STARnet for a period of at least 3 years, working in engaging
communities to create new tools and services. Our vision in STARnet is to develop
a robust and sustainable federation of gateways serving the A&A community. As
the underlying problems are common to all data-intensive
c expertise among different
fields today, we expect
that a number of products and experiences from this work would
find followers in
other areas of science and technology.
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