On the last weekend of November 2008, about 60 peoples attended the China-VO 2008, the 7th national VO meeting in China. 28 talks and 3 discussions were presented in the workshop, which made the China-VO 2008 to be the largest one in the history of the China-VO annual meetings. For more details please visit the website of the workshop:
http://www.china-vo.org
Recently, ESO released an update version of the Scisoft, version 7.2. It has been available for download locally from the LAMOST mirror at:
http://scisoft.lamost.org
After great effort of more then one year, the SDSS DR6 datasets ware fully mirrored at National Astronomical Observatories, CAS (NAOC). A mirror website is built at:
http://sdss.lamost.org
We are pleased to announce that Scisoft 7.1 is now available from the standard ESO Scisoft web pages (www.eso.org/scisoft). This version includes many small updates, new versions of some major packages (IRAF/STSDAS, MIDAS) and also some new items (Funtools, BoA, miniCRUSH, VirGO etc). It is still for Fedora Core 6 (32bit).
The Scisoft 7.1 is available for download from both its original webiste (http://www.eso.org/sci/data-processing/software/scisoft/) and its mirror site in Beijing (http://scisoft.lamost.org).
This version is already installed on most scientific desktops at ESO Garching.
Regards, Richard for the Scisoft Team
Dear all
we are very pleased to announce the release of the AstroGrid Desktop Suite : get it from http://www.astrogrid.org This was time to coincide with the UK National Astronomy meeting, currently happening in Belfast.
After various prototypes over several years, this is the first release we consider a complete set of software and working services. From the user's point of view we are releasing three applications that run on your desktop - VODesktop; Topcat; and AstroGrid Python - and providing links to other Euro-VO tools that interoperate seamlessly - Aladin, VOSpec, SPLAT-VO. We also link to other VO tools - NVO services, VOPlot, etc.
In the background we have operating services - Registry, VOSpace, and Community - in several sites - and we have used our own DSA component to help UK data centres establish working data services. Of course we can see thousands of services worldwide.
The website is aimed purely at end users. Shortly we will also launch related web sites aimed at deployers and developers and casual readers (with names like project.astrogrid.org and deploy.astrogrid.org and develop.astrogriod.org)
Help yourselves, and enjoy !
andy lawrence