Tag Archives: data archives

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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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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The VAO Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) Tool, Iris

Posted on August 20, 2011 by astrocompute

The Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) has just released a beta version of a Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) Tool, called Iris. It is a desktop application that analyzes  1-D astronomical spectral energy distributions (SEDs). To quote from the release announcement: “Iris … Continue reading →

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Help! My Software Has Turned Into A Techno Turkey!

Posted on June 17, 2011 by astrocompute

This is the title of a presentation I gave today at an internal symposium at IPAC, and I thought I would post it here. The title refers to the fact that a lot of scientific software developed on desktops will … Continue reading →

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Astronomy Needs New Data Format Standards!

Posted on May 20, 2011 by astrocompute

My colleague Anastasia Alexov thinks so, and I am in inclined to agree with her. As data sets become Petabyte (PB) size and the data themselves become more complex, then current file formats such as FITS, which have served astronomy … Continue reading →

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The “Innovations in Data Intensive Astronomy” Workshop

Posted on May 6, 2011 by astrocompute

This week, I attended the “Innovations in Data Intensive Astronomy” Workshop, hosted by NRAO at Green Bank, West Virginia.  The workshop aimed to “.. encourage new ideas for the effective processing, analysis, and interpretation of Tera- to Peta-scale data sets … Continue reading →

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The Kepler Mission: A Gold Mine of Variable Stars

Posted on March 26, 2011 by astrocompute

The Kepler Mission was designed to find transiting, Earth-like exoplanets, by continuously observing over 100,000 stars in a field centered in the constellation of Cygnus. Two years into the mission, it is also providing an extraordinarily rich collection of time-series … Continue reading →

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Canada Explores New Frontiers in Astroinformatics

Posted on January 22, 2011 by astrocompute

This week’s post links to an excellent article on the HPC In The Cloud web site on how the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre is migrating its operations to a cloud computing platform. To my knowledge, CADC is the first astronomy … Continue reading →

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