Monthly Archives: January 2014

Accessing Multi-Dimensional Images and Data Cubes In the Virtual Observatory

Posted on January 31, 2014 by astrocompute

New instruments and missions are routinely producing multi-dimensional datasets, such as Doppler velocity cubes and time-resolved movies. Observatories such as ALMA and new integral field spectrographs on ground-based telescopes are generating data cubes , and future missions such as LSST … Continue reading →

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Astrophysics Code Sharing II: The Sequel at AAS 223

Posted on January 24, 2014 by astrocompute

This blogpost was prepared by Alice Allen (Editor, Astronomy Source Code Library) and posted on the ASCL blog. I wish to thank Alice for permission to reproduce her post here. On Tuesday, January 7, the AAS Working Group on Astronomical … Continue reading →

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Licensing Your Code: GPL, BSD and Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”

Posted on January 17, 2014 by astrocompute

I have for some time considered changing to a more permissive license (with Caltech’s approval) for the Montage image mosaic engine, as the the current license forbids modification and redistribution of the code. My first attempt at navigating the many … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services and the Square Kilometer Array

Posted on January 13, 2014 by astrocompute

This week,  I report on what I think is a creative way to use cloud computing to support the development and preconstruction of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). The work is reported as an Amazon Web Services case study. The … Continue reading →

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2013 in review

Posted on January 2, 2014 by astrocompute

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 22,000 times in 2013. If it were a … Continue reading →

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