Monthly Archives: January 2011

Flying across Galaxy Clusters with Google Earth: Deep Color Images from SDSS

Posted on January 28, 2011 by astrocompute

Color images of distant, faint galaxies interesting to astronomers because the color enables them to estimate the redshift, a key astrophysical parameter in understanding how galaxies are organized in the Universe.  Recently, Jiangang Hao and Jim Annis of Fermilab co-added … Continue reading →

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Canada Explores New Frontiers in Astroinformatics

Posted on January 22, 2011 by astrocompute

This week’s post links to an excellent article on the HPC In The Cloud web site on how the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre is migrating its operations to a cloud computing platform. To my knowledge, CADC is the first astronomy … Continue reading →

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Introducing the Digital Scientist

Posted on January 15, 2011 by astrocompute

The International Science Grid This Week has now become the  Digital Scientist. The change reflects the modern landscape of scientific computing in this era of the “data tsunami,” where clouds, high performance clusters and grids, as well as the humble … Continue reading →

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Scientific Programming Does Not Compute?

Posted on January 7, 2011 by astrocompute

This week’s post is about an article published in Nature by Zeeya Merali entitled “Why Scientific Computing Does Not Compute.” (Nature, 467, 775; October 14, 2010) (Nature, 467, 775; October 14, 2010). Merali develops a compelling case that most scientists … Continue reading →

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