Category Archives: Cloud computing

Does the cloud mean having to rethink software development?

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

Marten Mickos recently wrote a guest post on GigaOM titled: “For developers, the cloud means having to rethink everything they know about making software.” Mickos raised some very good points. He listed five ways in which cloud computing will force … Continue reading →

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How can we use HPC platforms to help dig out new exoplanets?

Posted on April 4, 2013 by

My colleague Peter Plavchan and  I wrote this lead article for the April 3 edition of International Science Grid This Week, where it appears as the lead article. We are living in the golden age of exoplanets — over 800 … Continue reading →

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STScI’s Engineering and Technology Colloquia Series Webcasts

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

Last week, I wrote a post about Michelle Borkin’s presentation on Astronomical Medicine and Beyond, part of the Space Telescope Science Institute’s (STScI) Engineering and Technology Colloquia Series. STScI archives and posts on-line all the presentations in this series. The … Continue reading →

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Unproceedings from the .Astronomy4 Conference, Heidelberg, July 2012

Posted on January 25, 2013 by

Broadly speaking, the .Astronomy conference series aims to bring together astronomers, software engineers and educators who wish to explore how to use “Web 2.0″ technologies to serve astronomy and astronomy outreach. The conferences are by design interactive and informal, with … Continue reading →

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The Architecture of the RunMyCode platform

Posted on December 23, 2012 by

Several weeks again, I published a post on RunMyCode, a platform for publishing code and data associated with papers. After verification by the project staff, the code is run on a  remote server but controlled from a web page.  Several … Continue reading →

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e-Science – towards the cloud: infrastructures, applications and research

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A has just published a special issue entitled: “e-Science – towards the cloud: infrastructures, applications and research.”  The issue contains 12 papers that are considered “best in show” at the U. K. e-Science … Continue reading →

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RunMyCode.org: a platform for executing published computational results

Posted on November 30, 2012 by

Much has been written about the need for scientists to share code used in the production of scientific papers. Sharing is now generally seen as an essential component of scientific reproducibility. Yet even if codes are shared, researchers may not … Continue reading →

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A Tale of 160 Scientists, Three Applications, One Workshop and A Cloud

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

This is the text of a presentation I gave at the 22nd Annual Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems Conference, held in Champaign, Illinois (Nov 4-8, 2012).  You may download the slides here: Sagan e-Science 2012 gbb best. The work … Continue reading →

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Exploring the Universe with Machine Learning

Posted on July 27, 2012 by

A short while ago, I attended a webinar on the above topic by Alex Gray and Nick Ball. The traditional approach to analytics involves identifying which collections of data or collections of information follow sets of rules. Machine learning (ML) … Continue reading →

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Report From The Front Lines of .Astronomy 4

Posted on July 20, 2012 by

Last week, I had the great pleasure of attending the  .Astronomy 4 meeting in Heidelberg, Germany. This was the first time I have attended this annual meeting, and I had the honor delivering one of the keynote addresses, on “How … Continue reading →

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