Speaker:
Nick Ball, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
Event Date and Time:
Mon, 2012-09-24 16:00 - 17:15
Local Contact:
Jaymie Matthews
Intended Audience:
Graduate
The future study of large datasets, consisting of hundreds of millions to billions
of objects, will be dominated by large computing resources, and by analysis tools
of the necessary scalability and sophistication to extract useful information.
Astronomy data are no exception to this trend, and will require significant effort
to fulfil their potential as a provider of the next generation of science results.
To-date, computing systems have allowed either sophisticated analysis of small data
sets, e.g., most astronomy software, or simple analysis of large datasets, e.g.,
database