Tag Archives: cloud computing

The Architecture of the RunMyCode platform

Posted on December 23, 2012 by astrocompute

Several weeks again, I published a post on RunMyCode, a platform for publishing code and data associated with papers. After verification by the project staff, the code is run on a  remote server but controlled from a web page.  Several … Continue reading →

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e-Science – towards the cloud: infrastructures, applications and research

Posted on December 17, 2012 by astrocompute

The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A has just published a special issue entitled: “e-Science – towards the cloud: infrastructures, applications and research.”  The issue contains 12 papers that are considered “best in show” at the U. K. e-Science … Continue reading →

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RunMyCode.org: a platform for executing published computational results

Posted on November 30, 2012 by astrocompute

Much has been written about the need for scientists to share code used in the production of scientific papers. Sharing is now generally seen as an essential component of scientific reproducibility. Yet even if codes are shared, researchers may not … Continue reading →

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A Tale of 160 Scientists, Three Applications, One Workshop and A Cloud

Posted on November 7, 2012 by astrocompute

This is the text of a presentation I gave at the 22nd Annual Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems Conference, held in Champaign, Illinois (Nov 4-8, 2012).  You may download the slides here: Sagan e-Science 2012 gbb best. The work … Continue reading →

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First Workshop on Maintainable Software Practices in e-Science – Presentations On-line

Posted on October 26, 2012 by astrocompute

All the presentations from the Workshop on Maintainable Software Practices, held in Chicago as part of 8th International Conference on e-Science 2012, have been posted on-line at the workshop’s web site.  I posted my talk on “Adoption of Software by … Continue reading →

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yt: An Integrated Science Environment for Astrophysical Simulations

Posted on September 7, 2012 by astrocompute

yt is a community-developed high-performance analysis and visualization toolkit for astrophysical simulation data. This video by Matthew Turk gives an excellent introduction to it: The yt webpage is, in my view, a model for the content of a collaborative software … Continue reading →

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Exploring the Universe with Machine Learning

Posted on July 27, 2012 by astrocompute

A short while ago, I attended a webinar on the above topic by Alex Gray and Nick Ball. The traditional approach to analytics involves identifying which collections of data or collections of information follow sets of rules. Machine learning (ML) … Continue reading →

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Report From The Front Lines of .Astronomy 4

Posted on July 20, 2012 by astrocompute

Last week, I had the great pleasure of attending the  .Astronomy 4 meeting in Heidelberg, Germany. This was the first time I have attended this annual meeting, and I had the honor delivering one of the keynote addresses, on “How … Continue reading →

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An Example of Cloud Computing in Astronomy Education and Training

Posted on June 2, 2012 by astrocompute

In a number of previous posts, I have described how cloud computing can be effective in supporting “high-burst” or one-time computing needs. Generally, the cloud is too expensive to support science services on a 24/7 basis. I recently learned of … Continue reading →

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How To Use Cloud Computing To Do Astronomy

Posted on May 14, 2012 by astrocompute

This is a talk I gave jointly with my colleague Ewa Deelman (ISI, USC) at Caltech on May 9. I have had a number of requests to post the slides, so I will do so here:  Cloud IPAC May 9 gbb … Continue reading →

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