The date for the First Annual OSDT Workshophas been confirmed: Tuesday 7 October 2008. There will be a ½ day meeting on Wednesday 8 October for the writing team to summarize the workshop results. The workshop will be held on the campus of UCSD. The theme of the workshop is transitioning from technology development and campaign deployments to persistent operational deployments.

Participation to open to anyone interested in OSDT, however the target audience is technology developers and system engineers. We plan for this to be a serious “working” workshop and not simply a showcase of success stories. We expect to have representatives from the major R&D groups working with DataTurbine, including the inventors and lead developers of DataTurbine from NASA Dryden and our industry partners Erigo Technologies and Creare Incorporated.

Here is a list of topics that are being considered for the agenda:
1. Overview of DataTurbine deployments from across the OSDT Initiative. Where and how is DataTurbine currently being employed?
2. Survey of existing and planned DataTurbine technology developments. What are the various R&D groups working on and what are their plans?
3. Mirroring and routing. What are the various strategies for using DataTurbine for streaming data networks? Matching application requirements to DataTurbine configurations.
4. Service oriented architectures for streaming data applications. Placing DataTurbine within the broader enterprise-computing framework. Service patterns, tools, and standards for designing and building real-time environmental observing systems.
5. System administration and system health monitoring. How can we efficiently understand and manage a large production system of real-time distributed sensors and instruments? Scaling up DataTurbine deployments to 1000s of distributed servers.
6. The role of the NSF-sponsored OSDT Initiative. This group has coordinated the release and publication of the open-source DataTurbine code base and maintains the OSDT website and materials. How is this working? What can we do to improve our services?

The workshop planning committee will be drafting an agenda soon. Feel free to forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested.

Update: Please see http://dataturbine.org/content/osdt-workshop