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Development of an Astrophysical Specific Language for Big Data Computation

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2012-12-11 v1

Abstract

Astronomy is entering in a new era of Extreme Intensive Data Computation and we have identified three major issues the new generation of projects have to face: Resource optimization, Heterogeneous Software Ecosystem and Data Transfer. We propose in this article a middleware solution offering a very modular and maintainable system for data analysis. As computations must be designed and described by specialists in astronomy, we aim at defining a friendly specific programming language to enable coding of astrophysical problems abstracted from any computer science specific issues. This way we expect substantial benefits in computing capabilities in data analysis. As a first development using our solution, we propose a cross-matching service for the Taiwan Extragalactic Astronomical Data Center.

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@article{arxiv.1212.1954,
  title  = {Development of an Astrophysical Specific Language for Big Data Computation},
  author = {Nicolas Kamennoff and Sébastien Foucaud and Sébastien Reybier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.1954},
  year   = {2012}
}

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4 pages, proceeding for ADASS XXII Conference

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