The AstroHDF Effort
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| Publication date | 2012 |
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| Book title | Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXI |
| Book subtitle | proceedings of a conference held at Marriott Rive Gauche Conference Center, Paris, France, 6-10 November 2011 |
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| Series | Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series |
| Event | Annual Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems; 21 (Paris, France): 2011.11.06-10 |
| Pages (from-to) | 871-874 |
| Publisher | San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
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| Abstract |
Here we update the astronomy community on our effort to deal with the demands of ever-increasing astronomical data size and complexity, using the Hierarchical Data Format, version 5 (HDF5) format (Wise et al. 2011). NRAO, LOFAR and VAO have joined forces with The HDF Group to write an NSF grant, requesting funding to assist in the effort. This paper briefly summarizes our motivation for the proposed project, an outline of the project itself, and some of the material discussed at the ADASS
Birds of a Feather (BoF) discussion. Topics of discussion included: community experiences with HDF5 and other file formats; toolsets which exist and/or can be adapted for HDF5; a call for development towards visualizing large (> 1 TB) image cubes; and, general lessons learned from working with large and complex data. |
| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Language | English |
| Published at | http://www.aspbooks.org/a/volumes/article_details/?paper_id=34803 |
| Other links | http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ASPC..461..871M |
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