Virtual Observatory and Distributed Computing


I'm secretary of the
International Virtual Observatory Alliance and have played an active part in the development of the interoperability standards upon which the Virtual Observatory has been constructed. I'm also co-chair of the Applications Research Group of the Open Grid Forum.

I am technical director of a major new EU FP7 programme - the
Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) - which will provide a rich user access to all European A+M data, significant elements of the technical infrastructure being based on the outputs of the Virtual Observatory (both UK and European).

I was project scientist of the
AstroGrid (2001-2009) and Euro-VO VO Technology Centre (VOTC) (2004-2009) projects.

If you want to see what AstroGrid released as its final release - have a look at the VODesktop interface to the Virtual Observatory - find it and get the software from
http://www.astrogrid.org