Focus Demo: CANFAR+Skytree: A Cloud Computing and Data Mining System for Astronomy

2013/12/14 by Nicholas M. Ball, Ball, Nicholas M.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #astro-ph.IM

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1312.3997

4 pages, 2 figures, uses asp2010.sty. Written when at National Research Council Canada. Now at Skytree, Inc., San Jose, CA, USA. There is a companion paper: "CANFAR+Skytree: A Cloud Computing and Data Mining System for Astronomy". Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems (ADASS) XXII, 2012, ASP Conference Proceedings, eds. Friedel D., Freemon M., Plante R. (San Francisco: ASP)

arxiv created 2013/12/14 · arxiv updated 2013/12/17

Abstract

This is a companion Focus Demonstration article to the CANFAR+Skytree poster (Ball 2012), demonstrating the usage of the Skytree machine learning software on the Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomical Research (CANFAR) cloud computing system. CANFAR+Skytree is the world's first cloud computing system for data mining in astronomy.

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