|
CYBERSKA
A Cyberinfrastructure platform to meet the needs of data intensive radio astronomy on route to the SKA |
Latest comments
Russ Taylor on ADASS 2011 - Day 0 (2726 days ago): very interesting Sam. Thanks for posting.- Samuel George on SKA Calim 2011 - Day 4 (2827 days ago): I never got around to finished this one.. might add to it tomorrow.
- Shannon Jaeger on SKA Calim 2011 - Day 4 (2828 days ago): Thanks for the blogs Sam. Some interesting stuff and it's almost as good...
Archives
Tag cloud
Samuel George's blogs
ADASS 2011 - Day 4
By Samuel George 2723 days agoDesign and Implementation of the WISE Science Data SystemWISE - a NASA Medium Class Explorer Mission4 imaging channels covering, 3.4, 4.6,12 and 22 microns.Science data system was developed at IPAC - 6 sub-systems.52GB/dat - high date rate and duty...ADASS 2011 - Day 3
By Samuel George 2724 days agoKnowledge discovery (KD) work flows in astronomyKD is used in many different fields, social sciences, security, finance, life science, google...Survey based and driven astronomy, lots of data and many parameters measures, so the data complexity is...ADASS 2011 - Day 2
By Samuel George 2725 days agoBenchmarking the CRBLASTER computational Framework on a 350-MHz 49-core Maestro Development BoardHigh performance computing for under 30 W ~ GPUs use 300W. RAW processor, multicore processors in meshes.Do statistical analysis on images in a stack....ADASS 2011 - Day 1
By Samuel George 2726 days agoAccelerating the rate of astronomical discovery GPU-enabled clustersIncentive to keep playing computer games for astronomy.Programmable pipeline - shared OpenGL - application programming interfaces: cuda, openclFirst uses in astronomy: B-body...ADASS 2011 - Day 0
By Samuel George 2726 days ago Comments (1)A few notes from the GPU tutorial held on the Sunday before the start of the conference. GPUs in astronomy- better FLOP/$- better FLOP/WattMotivation comes from Moore's Law - i.e. get my transistors - but around 2000 single cores were not able to...SKA Calim 2011 - Day 4
By Samuel George 2828 days ago Comments (2)Square Kilometre Calibration Meeting 2011 at the University of Manchester, UK. Day 4 Looking beyond the LOFAR central processor (Chris Broekema) - Total peak performance is 20.6 TFlops for CEP Phase II cluster - using Ubuntu 10.04...SKA Calim 2011 - Day 3
By Samuel George 2829 days agoSquare Kilometre Calibration Meeting 2011 at the University of Manchester, UK. Day 3 Warped snapshot imaging for low-frequency dipole arrays (Daniel Mitchell) - direction dependent ionosphere can use facets - with the MWA they can use warped...SKA Calim 2011 - Day 2
By Samuel George 2830 days agoSquare Kilometre Calibration Meeting 2011 at the University of Manchester, UK. Day 2 Next generation Calibration: John Q. Astronomer's Perspective (Ian Heywood) - Primary beam issues at low decs. Calibration in CASA. Intrinsic or apparent...SKA Calim 2011 - Day 1
By Samuel George 2831 days agoSquare Kilometre Calibration Meeting 2011 at the University of Manchester, UK. Day 1 LOFAR Status (Ronald Nijboer) - LBA (10/30 - 80 MHz), HBA (120-240 MHz). Superterp ~ 350m, Core +18 stations ~ 3km, NL Remote ~ 80km, EU remote ~ 1000km....
