Monthly Archives: July 2015

“Software Use in Astronomy: An Informal Survey” by Momcheva and Tollerud

Posted on July 27, 2015 by astrocompute

This the title of a paper by Ivelina Momcheva and Erik Tollerud that was recently posted on astro-ph at http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03989.  Between December 2014 and February 2015, they carried out an informal survey about software use in astronomy,  marketed mainly through social … Continue reading →

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The 8th Extremely Large Databases Conference and Workshop

Posted on July 17, 2015 by astrocompute

These annual workshops that discuss ” …the real-world challenges, practical considerations, and nuts-and-bolts solutions in the realm of managing and analyzing extreme scale data sets.”  The attendees include Big Data users from industry and science, developers, researchers, and providers. This year’s … Continue reading →

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Toward a Framework for Evaluating Software Success

Posted on July 1, 2015 by astrocompute

Many of us in the astronomical software business have been debating the best way to evaluate the quality of software and its success within its user community. Here is one proposal submitted by a group of us to the Computational Science … Continue reading →

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