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Software Citation Implementation in Astronomy
This week’s post is a repost of a summary of a meeting I attended, held at the 231st AAS meeting in National Harbor, MD, January 2018. The original summary, prepared by Daina Bouquin and Arfon Smith, is at https://github.com/CfA-Library/Cite_Astro_Software/blob/master/whitepaper.md, and is … Continue reading
The Virtual Observatory Is Very Much Real!
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
Posted in archives, astroinformatics, Astronomy, computer videos, Computing, computing videos, cyberinfrastructure, data archives, Data Management, information sharing, software engineering, software sustainability, Virtual Observatory
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Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy
This week, I am posting a copy of white paper prepared by Shamir et al., in response to a call from the National Academies, who are sponsoring a Task Force on “Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy for … Continue reading
Posted in astroinformatics, Astronomy, BSD, Computing, GPL, High performance computing, informatics, information sharing, Licenses, Open Access, Open Source, programming, publishing, Scientific computing, social networking, software engineering, software maintenance, software sustainability
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Summer App Space Innovation Speaker Series
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
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
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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Best Practices for HPC Software Developers
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
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
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
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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Astronomy Computing Today 