Beowulf computational class in wide-field astronomy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4848, Issue , 2002, Pages 328-335

  Cascone, E ^a   Grado, A ^a   Pavlov, M ^a   Capasso, G ^a  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beowulf; Pipeline; Wide field astronomy

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE PROCESSING; SERVERS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM; WIDE FIELD TELESCOPES; WIDE-FIELD ASTRONOMY;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0036988035     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461097     Document Type: Article

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