Category Archives: Scientific computing

The dot Astronomy 6 Conference

Posted on December 23, 2014 by astrocompute

For my last post of 2014, I would like to draw everyone’s attention to the on-line material about the dot Astronomy 6 Conference, held this year at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, on December 8-10. This annual meeting on on-line astronomy … Continue reading →

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Software Events at the 225th AAS Meeting, Seattle, Jan 4-8

Posted on December 23, 2014 by astrocompute

Reproduced from the AAS web page and the ASCL Blog, with the permission of Alice Allen. See the ASCL Blog for more details. Join the Software Publication Special Interest Group (SPSIG) The AAS Working Group on Astronomical Software (WGAS) has … Continue reading →

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Resources and Conferences for Astronomical Statistics

Posted on December 8, 2014 by astrocompute

With the permission of Eric Feigelson, I am reproducing here this very useful post from the Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics Portal (ASAIP) blog on the many conferences on the discipline of Astrostatistics, and the growing number of powerful statistical software tools … Continue reading →

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Second Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences

Posted on November 17, 2014 by astrocompute

The Second Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE2) was held on Sunday, November 16, 2014, in New Orleans, in conjunction with Supercomputing ’14.  Broadly speaking, the WSSSPE events aim to provide a cross-discipline forum for a discussion of the … Continue reading →

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Is HDF5 a good format to replace UVFITS?

Posted on November 12, 2014 by astrocompute

The astronomical community has begun to discuss whether the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) will continue to the de facto standard for storage and exchange of data in astronomy. FITS has been standard since the 1980s, in part because of … Continue reading →

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Review of A Hack Day: Coding Comes to the U.K. National Astronomy Meeting (NAM)

Posted on October 30, 2014 by astrocompute

Hack Days have become very popular in the past few years. If you want to know what happens at one and what value they offer, read this excellent post by Robert Simpson on the Hack Day at the U.K. National Astronomy … Continue reading →

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How Should Astronomy Pay For Software?

Posted on October 20, 2014 by astrocompute

So asked Frossie Enonomou at ADASS XXIV in Calgary, October 2014.  She gave her view of the answer to this question. It’s not of course about paying for software, but about paying people to write software.  Generally speaking, it’s not … Continue reading →

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From The Front Lines of ADASS 2014 – Visualization

Posted on October 7, 2014 by astrocompute

Visualization technology is undergoing a transformation these days, and the October 7 morning session was devoted to advances in visualization. Here I will give a synopsis of some of the talks. Chris Beaumont described Glue as a “Hackable User Interface,” … Continue reading →

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Astronomical Data Formats – Past, Present and Future ADASS BOF Session

Posted on October 7, 2014 by astrocompute

This session began with a call to action from Bob Hanisch: FITS is 35 years old; how do we go forward? Should we use VO-agreed data models as the high-level abstraction, and use HDF5 as the processing and transport layer? … Continue reading →

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The Front Lines of ADASS 2014 – October 6 2014 Morning Sessions

Posted on October 6, 2014 by astrocompute

Nick Walton spoke about data processing challenges for PLATO, ESA’s next generation planet-hunter. It is an approved ESA M3 mission with a launch date in 2024, with a nominal six year mission. Broadly speaking, it aims to detect earth sized … Continue reading →

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