AstroCloud: A Distributed Cloud Computing and Application Platform for Astronomy
Abstract
Virtual Observatory (VO) is a data-intensively online astronomical research and education environment, which takes advantages of advanced information technologies to achieve seamless and global access to astronomical information. AstroCloud is a cyber-infrastructure for astronomy research initiated by Chinese Virtual Observatory (China-VO) project, and also a kind of physical distributed platform which integrates lots of tasks such as telescope access proposal management, data archiving, data quality control, data release and open access, cloud based data processing and analysis. It consists of five application channels, i.e. observation, data, tools, cloud and public and is acting as a full lifecycle management system and gateway for astronomical data and telescopes. Physically, the platform is hosted in six cities currently, i.e. Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Kunming, Lijiang and Urumqi, and serving more than 17 thousand users. Achievements from international Virtual Observatories and Cloud Computing are adopted heavily. In the paper, backgrounds of the project, architecture, Cloud Computing environment, key features of the system, current status and future plans are introduced.
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@article{arxiv.1701.05641,
title = {AstroCloud: A Distributed Cloud Computing and Application Platform for Astronomy},
author = {Chenzhou Cui and Boliang He and Ce Yu and Jian Xiao and Changhua Li and Dongwei Fan and Shanshan Li and Linying Mi and Zihuang Cao and Sisi Yang and Yunfei Xu and Yue Chen and Zheng Li and Xu Han and Zhi Hong and Shucheng Yin and Chen Li and Chuanjun Wang and Yufeng Fan and Jianguo Wang and Junyi Chen and Hailong Zhang and Liang Liu and Na Gao and Zherui Yang and Xiao Chen and Min Liu and Cuilan Qiao and Kangyu Du and Liying Su and Wenming Song},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.05641},
year = {2017}
}
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5 pages, 8 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of "The 3rd International Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Network (WCSN 2016)"