Tag Archives: parallelization

dot Astronomy 5 Conference From A Distance

Posted on September 23, 2013 by astrocompute

Last week, the fifth annual dot Astronomy conference was held in Cambridge, MA. This event is a little different from other conferences: its goal is to advance the use of new compute technologies in the service of astronomy, from computing … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services Webinar: What Is Cloud Computing

Posted on September 16, 2013 by astrocompute

Last week, Jeff Barr of Amazon Web Services gave a Webinar that set out to answer the question “What Is Cloud Computing?” The webinar is now on-line at YouTube, and you can also grab the slides at http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/aws-webinar-what-is-cloud-computing-13-09-11. The topics … Continue reading →

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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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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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Astronomy Source Code Library Closes In On 600 Codes!

Posted on March 4, 2013 by astrocompute

Since I first wrote about it in in July 2011, the Astronomy Source Code Library (ASCL) has grown from referencing 200 codes to close on 600. This valuable resource, run entirely by volunteer effort, indexes codes that have been used … Continue reading →

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