Category Archives: cyberinfrastructure

The Virtual Observatory Is Very Much Real!

Posted on February 24, 2018 by astrocompute

  This is the title of a talk given at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics by my colleague Giuseppina (Pepi) Fabbiano. Pepi has been involved in the VO since its earliest daya, and she currently serves as Chair of the … Continue reading →

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Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration

Posted on February 16, 2018 by astrocompute

This is the title of a Symposium held at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on January 30 2018 in Pasadena.  According to the website, the goals of the meeting were: “The emerging technologies of Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) … Continue reading →

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Summer App Space Innovation Speaker Series

Posted on July 21, 2017 by astrocompute

Summer App Space is a paid apprenticeship for LA students and teachers to learn to program while getting paid to do fun space-related projects, and this year they are funding 12 students to attend a six-week school learning to program … Continue reading →

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Scientific Workflows for Science and the Science of Scientific Workflows

Posted on June 30, 2017 by astrocompute

In this era of compute intensive astronomy, tools for managing complex workflows are becoming a crucial part of our science infrastructure. This video offers a fine introduction to the Pegasus workflow manager by the team leader, Ewa Deelman (ISI, USC). … Continue reading →

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A New Python Pipeline for Reducing NIRSPEC Data Acquired at the Keck Observatory

Posted on June 5, 2017 by astrocompute

The Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) (https://koa.ipac.caltech.edu) has just released a new data reduction pipeline (NSDRP) for data acquired with the Keck Observatory NIRSPEC cross-dispersed infrared echelle spectrograph. The pipeline is intended to reduce high-resolution (0.947 – 2.63 um) object spectra. … Continue reading →

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The Montage Mosaic Engine and Visualization

Posted on May 22, 2017 by astrocompute

Those of you who have used Montage probably know it as a toolkit for processing images to create mosaics. It is, however, finding applicability in the visualization of images, as described in “The Application of Montage to the Visualization of … Continue reading →

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Best Practices for HPC Software Developers

Posted on May 9, 2017 by astrocompute

This is a series of seven videos describing best software engineering practices. I would recommend it to all  HPC software engineers. The series was the result of a collaboration between the IDEAS project, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, NERSC, and Oak … Continue reading →

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My Favorite Computing Videos on YouTube

Posted on March 31, 2017 by astrocompute

I have often been asked what are my favorite computing videos on YouTube. There are so many, it’s hard to give a definitive answer and I keep discovering more, some posted several years ago. As of today only, here are … Continue reading →

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Community Building Through Software Design

Posted on March 24, 2017 by astrocompute

This the title of a very interesting talk (which I wish I had given myself!) by Jed Brown of CU Boulder at the 2017 NSF SI2 meeting. Jed is involved in writing code for the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific … Continue reading →

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Spherical Panoramas for Astrophysical Data Visualization

Posted on February 10, 2017 by astrocompute

This is the title of a paper by Brian Kent (NRAO), which has been accepted for publication in the PASP Special Focus Issue: Techniques and Methods for Astrophysical Data Visualization. You can download the paper from arXiv at https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08807 .(I … Continue reading →

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