Tag Archives: high-performance computing

Parallel Astronomical Data Processing with Python: Recipes for multicore machines

Posted on August 16, 2013 by astrocompute

Most astronomers (myself included) have a high performance compute engine on their desktops. Modern computers now contain multicore processors, whose development was prompted by the need to reduce heat dissipation and power consumption but which give users a powerful processing … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Astronomical Data with Blender

Posted on August 10, 2013 by astrocompute

Mining the science content of modern, complex astronomy data sets requires the development of new approaches to visualization, and accordingly many groups have begun to investigate new visualization tool and technologies. Brian Kent of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) … Continue reading →

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Cosmological Calculations with GPUs

Posted on July 19, 2013 by astrocompute

A while ago, I wrote a series of posts on how astronomers are learning to use GPUs  in astronomy: The Use of Graphical Processing Units (GPU’s) In Astronomy, GPU’s in Astronomy: Critical Decisions for Early Adopters, GPU’s vs. CPU’s: Apples vs. Oranges?. I hope … Continue reading →

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SciPy 2013 From A Distance

Posted on July 2, 2013 by astrocompute

SciPy 2013 was the twelfth annual Scientific Computing with Python conference, held this year in Austin, TX, from June 24 to June 29. I was unable to attend, so I am giving this report from a distance based on the … Continue reading →

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Astronomy and Computing: A New Peer Reviewed Astronomy Journal

Posted on June 26, 2013 by astrocompute

Some of my posts here have expressed my long held view that astronomy needs a journal devoted to the application of computer science/IT to astronomy. There are I think two reasons why such a journal is needed. One is that … Continue reading →

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Does the cloud mean having to rethink software development?

Posted on May 24, 2013 by astrocompute

Marten Mickos recently wrote a guest post on GigaOM titled: “For developers, the cloud means having to rethink everything they know about making software.” Mickos raised some very good points. He listed five ways in which cloud computing will force … Continue reading →

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Choosing The Right Database: A Webcast

Posted on May 20, 2013 by astrocompute

Picking a database these days can be bewildering, and at the same time it can be a crucial business or project decision.  This webcast, by Robin Bloor, Ph.D. Chief Analyst of the Bloor Group, and Mark Madsen of Third Nature, … Continue reading →

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How can we use HPC platforms to help dig out new exoplanets?

Posted on April 4, 2013 by astrocompute

My colleague Peter Plavchan and  I wrote this lead article for the April 3 edition of International Science Grid This Week, where it appears as the lead article. We are living in the golden age of exoplanets — over 800 … Continue reading →

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Knowledge Discovery from Mining Big Data – Presentation by Kirk Borne

Posted on March 18, 2013 by astrocompute

My friend and colleague Kirk Borne, of George Mason University, is a specialist in the modern field of data mining and astroinformatics.  I was delighted to learn that he was giving a talk on an introduction to this topic as … Continue reading →

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The Keck Observatory Archive Is Expanding to Serve All Instruments

Posted on March 11, 2013 by astrocompute

This year sees the W.M. Keck Observatory celebrating its 20th birthday, and the observatory is marking the anniversary with a series of events for astronomers and for the general public. The Observatory has had enormous impact on astronomical research, and … Continue reading →

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