Imaging SKA-scale data in three different computing environments

Astronomy and Computing

Volumn 14, Issue , 2016, Pages 8-22

  Dodson, R ^a   Vinsen, K ^a   Wu, C ^a   Popping, A ^a   Meyer, M ^a   Wicenec, A ^a   Quinn, P ^a   van Gorkom, J ^b   Momjian, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CHILES; Distributed architectures: cloud computing; Methods: data analysis; Parallel architectures: multicore architectures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956677935     PISSN: 22131337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ascom.2015.10.007     Document Type: Article

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