OpenTel
Package
AstroGrid-D
http://www.astrogrid-d.org/
Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, Germany
http://www.aip.de/
2008
INTRODUCTION
This is the software packages OpenTel.
It provides grid integration for robotic telescopes based on the Globus Toolkit middleware.
It is free open source software released under the Apache license. See copyright for details.
COMPONENTS
| bin/ | Folder of the OpenTel tools, i.e. user interface for the submission and cancellation of observations, selection of telescopes, geration of schedules, etc. |
| broker/ | Telescope broker for selection telescopes according to certain requirements |
| cwm/ | Cwm, a general-purpose data processor used by the broker (http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/doc/cwm.html) |
| dbtriggers/ | Datebase triggers for submitting metadata to the AstroGrid-D information service Stellaris |
| doc/ | Documentation |
| SPARQL/ | SPARQL query examples to retrieve infromation from Stellaris |
| scheduler/ | Scheduler for creating of observation schedules for continuous observations within a given list of telescopes |
| targets/ | Examples of RTML observation request |
| telescopes/ | Folder of static RTML descriptions of all integrated telescopes |
| xml/ | XSLTs used by the OpenTel tools to determine certain properties from the RTML descriptions |
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2008 AstroGrid-D (http://www.astrogrid-d.org)
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
Download and Installation
The latest version can be downloaded from the SVN repository:
svn co svn://svn.gac-grid.org/software/OpenTel OpenTel |
Prerequisites are an installation of the Globus Toolkit, valid grid certificates and the information service Stellaris.
AUTHORS
| Frank Breitling | fbreitling @aip.de | Coordination, architecture, integration, user interfaces, etc. |
| Thomas Röblitz | roeblitz @zib.de | Broker |
| Stephan Braune | sbraune @aip.de | Scheduler |
| Thomas Granzer | tgranzer @aip.de | STELLA integration (http://www.aip.de/stella/) |



