CYBERSKA
A Cyberinfrastructure platform to meet the needs of data intensive radio astronomy on route to the SKA |
Below is a summary of the latest CyberSKA portal release (v1.2.0) on April 4, 2011. An updated Third Party Application module (v0.6.2) and FITS Viewer (v0.6.0) was also released at the same time.
Some of the new portal collaboration features include the ability to share site resources with other users (i.e., point them to something of interest) via a "share" link associated with most resources. Users are also now able to directly respond to site messages via e-mail. When you receive a new message e-mail notification from the site, simply reply to the e-mail. The CyberSKA site will receive the e-mail, archive it on site in your site messages and send it to the recipient. It works best if using a plain text e-mail client currently (superfluous text/markup might be seen in the e-mail if using an WYSIWYG/html editor - we are working to eliminate this problem).
The third party application user interface has had some major enhancements. Via the Tools->Applications menu item users can now get access to an Application Catalogue and can bookmark applications of interest that will appear in a "My Applications" listing. Each application now also has its own information page and a widget has been added for the group dashboard for displaying group applications.
The on-line FITS Viewer has had a significant number of new features and performance enhancements made. Grid labeling, a thumbnail view, more Gaussian 2D fitting features, more colormap options and many more features are now supported. Next steps for the FITS Viewer will focus on the server side implementation to increase scalability and provide support for showing movies of multi-dimensional images.
There are many other new features/enhancements in this release. For a more complete overview please see the list below:
CyberSKA Portal v1.2.0
Applications v0.6.2
FITS Viewer v0.6.0