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First Workshop on Maintainable Software Practices in e-Science – Presentations On-line

Posted on October 26, 2012 by astrocompute

All the presentations from the Workshop on Maintainable Software Practices, held in Chicago as part of 8th International Conference on e-Science 2012, have been posted on-line at the workshop’s web site.  I posted my talk on “Adoption of Software by … Continue reading →

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

Posted on October 9, 2012 by astrocompute

Today, I have been attending the Maintainable Software Practices in e-Science (SoftwarePractice 2012) workshop at the IEEE e-Science 2012 conference in Chicago. The workshop focused on “the issues relating to the development and maintenance of software that can endure past … Continue reading →

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Smartphone grids – the future for distributed computing?

Posted on September 17, 2012 by astrocompute

This is the title of an article in the Sept 12 edition of International Science Grid This Week. It is described a paper by Busching, Schildt and Wolf, presented at a workshop held as part of the 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing … Continue reading →

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yt: An Integrated Science Environment for Astrophysical Simulations

Posted on September 7, 2012 by astrocompute

yt is a community-developed high-performance analysis and visualization toolkit for astrophysical simulation data. This video by Matthew Turk gives an excellent introduction to it: The yt webpage is, in my view, a model for the content of a collaborative software … Continue reading →

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Hunting Exoplanets with Kepler and Big Computers!

Posted on August 31, 2012 by astrocompute

The International Science Grid This Week posted a fascinating article on how high performance computing is being used to analyze time-series data sets from the Kepler mission.  Kepler’s primary goal is to determine the frequency of Earth-sized planets around other … Continue reading →

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Presentations at .astronomy 4 now on-line!

Posted on August 24, 2012 by astrocompute

Many of the presentations given at the .astronomy 4 conference have now been posted on-line. The conference was held in Heidelberg, Germany in July, and I gave an overview of some of the many highlights a few weeks ago. This … Continue reading →

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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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Report From The Front Lines of .Astronomy 4

Posted on July 20, 2012 by astrocompute

Last week, I had the great pleasure of attending the  .Astronomy 4 meeting in Heidelberg, Germany. This was the first time I have attended this annual meeting, and I had the honor delivering one of the keynote addresses, on “How … Continue reading →

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