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From The Front Lines of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016

Posted on July 15, 2016 by astrocompute

I attended the SPIE meeting on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation in Edinburgh, Scotland from June 26 through July 1, and I am sharing my views on the conference presentations. Approximately 2,000 astronomers, software engineers and instrumentation specialists crowded the Edinburgh … Continue reading →

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The Pegasus Workflow Manager and the Discovery of Gravitational Waves

Posted on February 19, 2016 by astrocompute

We have all heard so much about the wonderful discovery of Gravitational Waves – and with just cause! In today’s post, I want to give a shout-out to the Pegasus Workflow Manager, one of the crucial pieces of software used in … Continue reading →

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How Does An Astronomer Become A Data Scientist?

Posted on January 29, 2016 by astrocompute

I have been asked this question by several junior colleagues, so I thought my answer might be valuable to a broader audience. In particular, these young scientists were keen to learn how their skills might be transferable to another field. … Continue reading →

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SciCoder Presents: Developing Larger Software Projects

Posted on January 4, 2016 by astrocompute

I am here at the 227th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Kissimmee, Florida. In the past few years, these semi-annual meetings have offered professional development classes, and many of these are in the area of software engineering … Continue reading →

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VO Interfaces at the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA).

Posted on December 8, 2015 by astrocompute

This week, I am reporting on a presentation I heard by James Dempsey of CSIRO at the IVOA meeting in Sydney, November 2015. You can download the presentation at the meeting site here. ASKAP is the Australian SKA Pathfinder, a … Continue reading →

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A New Data Archive for Gemini – Fast, Cheap and in the Cloud

Posted on November 20, 2015 by astrocompute

I must congratulate my colleague Paul Hirst at Gemini – he is to my knowledge the first astronomer to use “cheap” and “cloud” in the same title. His talk on building a new archive for the Gemini telescopes was presented … Continue reading →

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Petascale Data Management in Solar Physics: Approach of the DKIST Data Center

Posted on November 10, 2015 by astrocompute

While attending the ADASS XXV meeting in Sydney, I heard this excellent presentation by Steve Berukoff 0n data management at the National Solar Obervatory’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, now under construction on Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii.  The telescope is due for … Continue reading →

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Brian Schmidt’s Keynote at ADASS XXV. October 27 2015.

Posted on October 26, 2015 by astrocompute

This year’s Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems conference (ADASS XXV) is being held in Sydney, Australia, hosted by CAASTRO. Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt delivered a keynote address about the impact of software and data access on astronomy. Fifty years … Continue reading →

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Version 4.0 of the Montage Image Mosaic Engine Released: Data Cubes and more.

Posted on October 24, 2015 by astrocompute

Version 4.0 is a major upgrade of Montage, released with a BSD 3-clause license. The distribution is available from Git Hub at https://github.com/Caltech-IPAC/Montage and from the Montage web page at http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/download.html. The release supports aggregation of of data stored as … Continue reading →

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Why Sustain Scientific Software?

Posted on October 16, 2015 by astrocompute

This is the title of the keynote address given by Matt Turk (University of Illinois) at the 3rd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE3), held in Boulder, CO, on September 28-29, 2015. This annual workshop aims to … Continue reading →

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