Monthly Archives: May 2011

The First Stars, As Seen By Supercomputers

Posted on May 30, 2011 by astrocompute

This is the title of an article by Tom Abel of the Kavli Institute, Stanford and appearing in the April 2011 issue of Physics Today. The article may be downloaded for personal use free of charge. The on-line article contains … Continue reading →

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Astronomy Needs New Data Format Standards!

Posted on May 20, 2011 by astrocompute

My colleague Anastasia Alexov thinks so, and I am in inclined to agree with her. As data sets become Petabyte (PB) size and the data themselves become more complex, then current file formats such as FITS, which have served astronomy … Continue reading →

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Approaches to Technology Evaluation in the Era of Data Intensive Astronomy

Posted on May 13, 2011 by astrocompute

This was the title of my talk at the “Innovations in Data Intensive Astronomy” Workshop, held at NRAO, Green Bank, WV from May 3-5 2011. I posted a short article about it last week. This week,  I thought I would … Continue reading →

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The “Innovations in Data Intensive Astronomy” Workshop

Posted on May 6, 2011 by astrocompute

This week, I attended the “Innovations in Data Intensive Astronomy” Workshop, hosted by NRAO at Green Bank, West Virginia.  The workshop aimed to “.. encourage new ideas for the effective processing, analysis, and interpretation of Tera- to Peta-scale data sets … Continue reading →

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