Tag Archives: parallelization

Software Training Discussion Session at .Astronomy 4

Posted on August 10, 2012 by astrocompute

The dotAstronomy 4 conference included a number of what are called “unconference” sessions, which are organized at the conference rather than as part of an agenda.  I organized such a session on how to provide software engineering training for scientists: … Continue reading →

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Adoption of Software by a User Community: The Montage Image Mosaic Engine

Posted on August 5, 2012 by astrocompute

This week’s post will be about building user communities, the topic of a paper I submitted for consideration for presentation at the Maintainable Software Practices in e-Science Workshop at the  8th IEEE International Conference on eScience 2012 in Chicago (Oct 8-12). … Continue reading →

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Exploring the Universe with Machine Learning

Posted on July 27, 2012 by astrocompute

A short while ago, I attended a webinar on the above topic by Alex Gray and Nick Ball. The traditional approach to analytics involves identifying which collections of data or collections of information follow sets of rules. Machine learning (ML) … Continue reading →

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SPIE Conference: Distributed Agile Software Development in Astronomy; the SKA Example

Posted on July 4, 2012 by astrocompute

I am attending the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands (July 1-6, 2012). One of the most interesting talks I have attended so far, in the Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy conference, was given jointly by Rebecca … Continue reading →

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New Astronomy Projects Take Up The Virtual Observatory

Posted on May 25, 2012 by astrocompute

This week, I have been attending the semi-annual IVOA meeting in Urban-Champaign, Illinois. One of the most interesting series of talks was on how three new observational projects in their commissioning phase are using  Virtual Observatory (VO) services as part … Continue reading →

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How To Use Cloud Computing To Do Astronomy

Posted on May 14, 2012 by astrocompute

This is a talk I gave jointly with my colleague Ewa Deelman (ISI, USC) at Caltech on May 9. I have had a number of requests to post the slides, so I will do so here:  Cloud IPAC May 9 gbb … Continue reading →

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NSF Leads Federal Efforts In Big Data – Webcast

Posted on March 31, 2012 by astrocompute

On March 29, the Federal Government held  a webcast Federal government science leds from OSTP, NSF, NIH, DOE, DOD, DARPA and USGS outlined how their agencies are engaged in Big Data research, followed by a panel of thought leaders from … Continue reading →

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The VAO Community Day in Tucson

Posted on March 26, 2012 by astrocompute

The Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) held its latest community day in Tucson, AZ, on March 13, attended by nearly 50 members of the Tucson astronomical community. These community days are an important part of our professional outreach: we go on … Continue reading →

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Cloud Computing: Is It Powerful and Can It Lead to Bankruptcy?

Posted on March 2, 2012 by astrocompute

This is the title of a presentation I gave at the Space Telescope Science Institute on February 23.  You can view the talk as an  STScI Webcast Presentation. I talked about a brief history of cloud computing, then talked about … Continue reading →

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Performance of Applications Running on the Magellan Cloud

Posted on February 5, 2012 by astrocompute

The Magellan Project recently ended after a two year experiment. It was a distributed testbed infrastructure  established at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). Its goal was  to provide an environment … Continue reading →

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