DiscFinder: A data-intensive scalable cluster finder for astrophysics

HPDC 2010 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 348-351

  Fu, Bin ^a   Ren, Kai ^a   López, Julio ^a   Fink, Eugene ^a   Gibson, Garth ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL OBJECTS; DATA SETS; GALAXY CLUSTERS; SCALABLE APPROACH;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 78650013529     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1851476.1851527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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