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SAMP, the Simple Application Messaging Protocol: Letting applications talk to each other
SAMP, the Simple Application Messaging Protocol, is a hub-based communication
standard for the exchange of data and control between participating client
applications. It has been developed within the context of the Virtual
Observatory with the aim of enabling specialised data analysis tools to
cooperate as a loosely integrated suite, and is now in use by many and varied
desktop and web-based applications dealing with astronomical data. This paper
reviews the requirements and design principles that led to SAMP's
specification, provides a high-level description of the protocol, and discusses
some of its common and possible future usage patterns, with particular
attention to those factors that have aided its success in practice.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for Virtual Observatory special issue
of Astronomy and Computin
Realistic error bounds for a reduced-state model-reference controller
Realistic error bounds for reduced-state model-reference controlle
Wigner crystals of ions as quantum hard drives
Atomic systems in regular lattices are intriguing systems for implementing
ideas in quantum simulation and information processing. Focusing on laser
cooled ions forming Wigner crystals in Penning traps, we find a robust and
simple approach to engineering non-trivial 2-body interactions sufficient for
universal quantum computation. We then consider extensions of our approach to
the fast generation of large cluster states, and a non-local architecture using
an asymmetric entanglement generation procedure between a Penning trap system
and well-established linear Paul trap designs.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Cubic structures, equivariant Euler characteristics and lattices of modular forms
We use the theory of cubic structures to give a fixed point Riemann-Roch
formula for the equivariant Euler characteristics of coherent sheaves on
projective flat schemes over Z with a tame action of a finite abelian group.
This formula supports a conjecture concerning the extent to which such
equivariant Euler characteristics may be determined from the restriction of the
sheaf to an infinitesimal neighborhood of the fixed point locus. Our results
are applied to study the module structure of modular forms having Fourier
coefficients in a ring of algebraic integers, as well as the action of diamond
Hecke operators on the Mordell-Weil groups and Tate-Shafarevich groups of
Jacobians of modular curves.Comment: 40pp, Final version, to appear in the Annals of Mathematic
IVOA Recommendation: SAMP - Simple Application Messaging Protocol Version 1.3
SAMP is a messaging protocol that enables astronomy software tools to
interoperate and communicate.
IVOA members have recognised that building a monolithic tool that attempts to
fulfil all the requirements of all users is impractical, and it is a better use
of our limited resources to enable individual tools to work together better.
One element of this is defining common file formats for the exchange of data
between different applications. Another important component is a messaging
system that enables the applications to share data and take advantage of each
other's functionality. SAMP builds on the success of a prior messaging
protocol, PLASTIC, which has been in use since 2006 in over a dozen astronomy
applications and has proven popular with users and developers. It is also
intended to form a framework for more general messaging requirements
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