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Monthly Archives: May 2012
New Astronomy Projects Take Up The Virtual Observatory
This week, I have been attending the semi-annual IVOA meeting in Urban-Champaign, Illinois. One of the most interesting series of talks was on how three new observational projects in their commissioning phase are using Virtual Observatory (VO) services as part … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, astronomy surveys, cyberinfrastructure, data archives, High performance computing, information sharing, programming, software maintenance, Uncategorized, Virtual Observatory
Tagged astronomy, astronomy surveys, computing, cyberinfrastructure, data archives, high-performance computing, information sharing, parallelization, scientific computing, software
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Software Carpentry Boot Camps: Software Engineering Training For Scientists
Yes, up at 7 am for a 3 mile run, a cold shower, then a breakfast of gruel followed by a full day of software engineering techniques … well, not quite: the software engineering part is true though. The Software … Continue reading
Posted in astroinformatics, education, information sharing, programming, software engineering, software maintenance, software sustainability
Tagged astroinformatics, computing, education, information sharing, scientific computing, software, software maintenance, software sustainability, user communities
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How To Use Cloud Computing To Do Astronomy
This is a talk I gave jointly with my colleague Ewa Deelman (ISI, USC) at Caltech on May 9. I have had a number of requests to post the slides, so I will do so here: Cloud IPAC May 9 gbb … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Cloud computing, cyberinfrastructure, earthquake science, exoplanets, High performance computing, image mosaics, information sharing, Parallelization, programming, software engineering, software sustainability, TeraGrid, time series data, Transiting exoplanets, XSEDE
Tagged astronomy, cloud computing, computing, cyberinfrastructure, exoplanet, high-performance computing, information sharing, Kepler, Montage, parallelization, scientific computing, software, software sustainability, TeraGrid, time domain astronomy
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NIRC2 Data Released Through the Keck Observatory Archive
This week, the Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) released data from its third instrument, and its first imaging instrument: the Near Infrared Camera 2 (NIRC2). Commissioned in 2001, it is used in imaging and spectroscopic modes, and is equipped with three … Continue reading
Posted in archives, Astronomy, data archives, exoplanets, galaxies, High performance computing, information sharing, software engineering, software maintenance, Uncategorized, W. M. Keck Observatory
Tagged astronomy, computing, data archives, information sharing, software, software maintenance, software sustainability, W. M. Keck Observatory
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