Statistical Computations with AstroGrid and the Grid
Abstract
We outline our first steps towards marrying two new and emerging technologies; the Virtual Observatory (e.g, AstroGrid) and the computational grid. We discuss the construction of VOTechBroker, which is a modular software tool designed to abstract the tasks of submission and management of a large number of computational jobs to a distributed computer system. The broker will also interact with the AstroGrid workflow and MySpace environments. We present our planned usage of the VOTechBroker in computing a huge number of n-point correlation functions from the SDSS, as well as fitting over a million CMBfast models to the WMAP data.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0511437,
title = {Statistical Computations with AstroGrid and the Grid},
author = {Robert C Nichol and Garry Smith and Christopher J Miller and Chris Genovese and Larry Wasserman and Brent Bryan and Alexander Gray and Jeff Schneider and Andrew W Moore},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0511437},
year = {2017}
}
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Invited talk to appear in "Proceedings of PHYSTAT05: Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology"