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Bruce Berriman is an astronomer and computer scientist at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology.-
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Category Archives: software maintenance
Special e-Science Issue of Royal Society Journal: Free Until Dec 31, 2011
This special e-Science issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A contains papers selected from the ninth U.K. e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010), held in September 2010 in Cardiff, UK. The Royal Society is offering free access to … Continue reading
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High Performance Compute Infrastructure for Astronomy: 2020 Is Only Months Away
I gave a talk with this title at the ADASS XXI conference in Paris this week. The paper described my long collaboration with my colleagues at the Information Sciences Institute, USC. Through environment agnostic workflow management tools and portable applications, … Continue reading
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How Will Astronomy Archives Survive the Data Tsunami?
This article by Steve Groom and myself was just published on-line in the Association for Computing Machinery Queue: How Will Astronomy Archives Survive the Data Tsunami? – ACM Queue In it, we describe the practices that can keep astronomy archives … Continue reading
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Report from the UK e-Science Meeting 2011
Last week, I attended the UK e-Science Meeting 2011 meeting, held at the splendid Ron Cooke Hub at the University of York. This year’s topic was Towards the Cloud: Infrastructures, Applications, Research. I gave a presentation on The Application of … Continue reading
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Cloud Presentation at UK e-Science 2011
Well, back from vacation a little early! Today, I gave a talk at the UK e-Science 2011 Conference in York, England. The theme for this year’s meeting is Towards the Cloud: Infrastructures, Applications, Research. I was asked if I would … Continue reading
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Two Useful Books From Dr. Dobbs’ Jolt Awards
A change of pace this week. Each year, the Dr Dobbs Journal recognizes its choices of the six best books in software development with the Jolt Awards. I’d like to write about two of them that took my eye: Mining … Continue reading
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A New Release Of The Pegasus Workflow Management System
My colleagues at the Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California have recently released version 3.1.0 of the Pegasus Workflow Management System. I have been working with the Pegasus team for many years now, and in a future post, I … Continue reading
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Why Advanced Computing Matters
I thought I would have a change of pace this week, and have a post that features penguins. No, not the Linux penguins, but the Penguins of Madagascar. These computer savvy flightless antipodean waterfowl have an interesting video that explains … Continue reading
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Teaching Scientific Computing With The TeraGrid
I have been reading a presentation by Loffler et al. (2011) given at the TeraGrid 11 conference in Salt Lake City on a Graduate Course taught at Louisiana State University during Fall 2010. The course aimed to teach high-performance computing … Continue reading
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A Training Roadmap for New HPC Users
The TeraGrid 11 conference was held in Salt Lake City, July 18-21, 2011. The goal of the conference is to “..showcase the capabilities, achievements, and impact of the TeraGrid in research and education.” I will write about some of the … Continue reading
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