Tag Archives: high-performance computing

The Astrophysics Source Code Library

Posted on July 8, 2011 by astrocompute

The Astrophysics Source Code Library is a free on-line reference library of astrophysical source codes  used to generate results published in or submitted to a refereed journal. The library housed on the discussion forum for Astronomy Picture of the Day … Continue reading →

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Magellan: Experiences From A Science Cloud

Posted on July 2, 2011 by astrocompute

This is the title of a paper presented  by Lavanya Ramakrishnan et al. at the ScienceCloud2011 workshop (paper; slides). Magellan is a project funded through the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program, to investigatethe use of … Continue reading →

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Debunking Some Common Misconceptions of Science in the Cloud

Posted on June 24, 2011 by astrocompute

This is the title of a presentation by Shane Canon (LBNL) and collaborators  given at the Science Cloud2011 workshop in San Jose, June 2o11. I gave an overview of this meeting in an earlier post. Canon et al. give what I … 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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ScienceCloud2011: The 2nd Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing

Posted on June 11, 2011 by astrocompute

The Science Cloud 2011 workshop was held on June 8 in San Jose, California, c0-located with the the 20th International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (June 8-11).  Following on from last year’s first workshop, the meeting provided … Continue reading →

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A New Model For Data Centers In The Era Of “Big Data”?

Posted on June 6, 2011 by astrocompute

The current model of a data center managing data sets generated by a mission in a local computer room and serving data to astronomers, who download and work with them on their desktops, will break down in the coming years … Continue reading →

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The First Stars, As Seen By Supercomputers

Posted on May 30, 2011 by astrocompute

This is the title of an article by Tom Abel of the Kavli Institute, Stanford and appearing in the April 2011 issue of Physics Today. The article may be downloaded for personal use free of charge. The on-line article contains … 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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Approaches to Technology Evaluation in the Era of Data Intensive Astronomy

Posted on May 13, 2011 by astrocompute

This was the title of my talk at the “Innovations in Data Intensive Astronomy” Workshop, held at NRAO, Green Bank, WV from May 3-5 2011. I posted a short article about it last week. This week,  I thought I would … 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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