Tag Archives: astronomy surveys

New Astronomy Projects Take Up The Virtual Observatory

Posted on May 25, 2012 by astrocompute

This week, I have been attending the semi-annual IVOA meeting in Urban-Champaign, Illinois. One of the most interesting series of talks was on how three new observational projects in their commissioning phase are using  Virtual Observatory (VO) services as part … Continue reading →

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NSF Leads Federal Efforts In Big Data – Webcast

Posted on March 31, 2012 by astrocompute

On March 29, the Federal Government held  a webcast Federal government science leds from OSTP, NSF, NIH, DOE, DOD, DARPA and USGS outlined how their agencies are engaged in Big Data research, followed by a panel of thought leaders from … Continue reading →

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The VAO Community Day in Tucson

Posted on March 26, 2012 by astrocompute

The Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) held its latest community day in Tucson, AZ, on March 13, attended by nearly 50 members of the Tucson astronomical community. These community days are an important part of our professional outreach: we go on … Continue reading →

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Citizen Science: Contributions to Astronomy Research  

Posted on February 26, 2012 by astrocompute

This is the title of an interesting paper by Carol Christian et al., in which they discuss the role of citizen science in modern astronomical research.  The authors adopt the definition of  citizen science as ” active involvement of a … Continue reading →

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Running Scientific Applications on Academic Clouds

Posted on January 23, 2012 by astrocompute

Commercial clouds can prove expensive, especially for long term use of for massive data storage. This week I report on some experiments on processing Kepler data sets on academic clouds. We are trying to see whether these experimental clouds offer … Continue reading →

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The Virtual Astronomical Observatory Rolls Out Science Services!

Posted on January 15, 2012 by astrocompute

At the 219th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, held from January 8th through 12th, the Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) held a workshop entitled “Tools For Data Intensive Astronomy.”  There, the VAO project demonstrated its first set of science services, … Continue reading →

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The Pegasus Workflow Manager and the Data Tsunami in Astronomy

Posted on December 11, 2011 by astrocompute

I have written in previous posts about the performance of scientific applications on cloud and grid platforms, but I have not written much about the tools needed to support management and control of these jobs. Astronomers generally have neither the … Continue reading →

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Skywatchers Look to Cloud for Storing ‘Tsunami’ of Data

Posted on November 18, 2011 by astrocompute

I was interviewed by Innovation News Daily for this feature on data management challenges in  astronomy, based on the paper I wrote with Steve Groom on “How Will Astronomy Archives Survive the Data Tsunami?.”  The piece is aimed at the computer … Continue reading →

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High Performance Compute Infrastructure for Astronomy: 2020 Is Only Months Away

Posted on November 9, 2011 by astrocompute

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?

Posted on October 27, 2011 by astrocompute

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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