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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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Tag Archives: cloud computing
Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXI
This annual, international software conference was held in Paris, France, from November 6 through 11, and was attended by roughly 300 people. This year’s topics were: GPUs in Astronomy and Beyond Cloud Computing and Virtualization Statistical Data Analysis and Knowledge … Continue reading
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How Cloud Computing Works
Well, how does it work? HowStuffWorks recently posted an article on this topic by Jonathan Strickland. The article is aimed at non-specialists in computers. Nevertheless, it gives a clear description of cloud computing and I think specialists will find it … Continue reading
Skywatchers Look to Cloud for Storing ‘Tsunami’ of Data
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
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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Accelerate physics with your own computer
Fascinating article in International Science Grid This Week on how the Large Hadron Collider is planning to use a volunteer computing project called Sixtrack to design the LHC’s 2020 upgrade. Visit http://www.isgtw.org/feature/accelerate-physics-your-own-computer
Posted in cyberinfrastructure, Data Management, Grid Computing, High Energy Physics, High performance computing, information sharing, LHC
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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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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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