Monthly Archives: August 2012

Hunting Exoplanets with Kepler and Big Computers!

Posted on August 31, 2012 by astrocompute

The International Science Grid This Week posted a fascinating article on how high performance computing is being used to analyze time-series data sets from the Kepler mission.  Kepler’s primary goal is to determine the frequency of Earth-sized planets around other … Continue reading →

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Presentations at .astronomy 4 now on-line!

Posted on August 24, 2012 by astrocompute

Many of the presentations given at the .astronomy 4 conference have now been posted on-line. The conference was held in Heidelberg, Germany in July, and I gave an overview of some of the many highlights a few weeks ago. This … Continue reading →

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The Google Software Development Process: The Benefits of Code Review

Posted on August 15, 2012 by astrocompute

This week, I have been attending the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) All-Hands Meeting in Tucson, Arizona. During a session on software best practices, I heard a talk by Rob Pike on software development practices at Google. He described how … Continue reading →

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Software Training Discussion Session at .Astronomy 4

Posted on August 10, 2012 by astrocompute

The dotAstronomy 4 conference included a number of what are called “unconference” sessions, which are organized at the conference rather than as part of an agenda.  I organized such a session on how to provide software engineering training for scientists: … Continue reading →

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Adoption of Software by a User Community: The Montage Image Mosaic Engine

Posted on August 5, 2012 by astrocompute

This week’s post will be about building user communities, the topic of a paper I submitted for consideration for presentation at the Maintainable Software Practices in e-Science Workshop at the  8th IEEE International Conference on eScience 2012 in Chicago (Oct 8-12). … Continue reading →

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