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Context. As the importance of Gravitational Wave (GW) Astrophysics increases rapidly, astronomers in different fields and with different backgrounds can have the need to get a quick idea of which GW source populations can be detected by…

SOFIA presents a number of interesting challenges for the development of a data reduction environment which, at its initial phase, will have to incorporate pipelines from seven different instruments. Therefore, the SOFIA data reduction…

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A distributed data warehouse system is one of the actual issues in the field of astroparticle physics. Famous experiments, such as TAIGA, KASCADE-Grande, produce tens of terabytes of data measured by their instruments. It is critical to…

The recent explosion of recorded digital data and its processed derivatives threatens to overwhelm researchers when analysing their experimental data or when looking up data items in archives and file systems. While current hardware…

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is an airborne astronomical observatory comprised of a 2.5-meter telescope mounted in the aft section of a Boeing 747SP aircraft. During routine operations, several instruments…

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As spatial and temporal resolutions of scientific instruments improve, the explosion in the volume of data produced is becoming a key challenge. It can be a critical bottleneck for integration between scientific instruments at the edge and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-03 Kazutomo Yoshii , Rajesh Sankaran , Sebastian Strempfer , Maksim Levental , Mike Hammer , Antonino Miceli

Handling, processing and archiving the huge amount of data produced by the new generation of experiments and instruments in Astronomy and Astrophysics are among the more exciting challenges to address in designing the future data management…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-14 S. Bertocco , P. Dowler , S. Gaudet , B. Major , F. Pasian , G. Taffoni

New generations of neutron scattering sources and instrumentation are providing challenges in data handling for user software. Time-of-Flight instruments used at pulsed sources typically produce hundreds or thousands of channels of data for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 T. G. Worlton , A. Chatterjee , J. P. Hammonds , P. F. Peterson , D. J. Mikkelson , R. L. Mikkelson

Industrial inspection automation in aerospace presents numerous challenges due to the dynamic, information-rich and regulated aspects of the domain. To diagnose the condition of an aircraft component, expert inspectors rely on a significant…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Garrick Cabour , Élise Ledoux , Samuel Bassetto

We present a modular framework, the Workload Characterisation Framework (WCF), that is developed to reproducibly obtain, store and compare key characteristics of radio astronomy processing software. As a demonstration, we discuss the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-30 Y. G. Grange , R. Lakhoo , M. Petschow , C. Wu , B. Veenboer , I. Emsley , T. J. Dijkema , A. P. Mechev , G. Mariani

Today's astronomical projects need computational systems capable to store and analyze large amounts of scientific data, to effectively share data with other research Institutes and to easily implement information services to present data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Calderone , L. Nicastro

We present PyWiFeS, a new Python-based data reduction pipeline for the Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS). PyWiFeS consists of a series of core data processing routines built on standard scientific Python packages commonly used in astronomical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-13 Michael J. Childress , Frédéric P. A. Vogt , Jon Nielsen , Robert G. Sharp

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a novel decentralised storage architecture, which attempts to provide decentralised cloud storage by building on founding principles of P2P networking and content addressing. IPFS is used by more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Trinh Viet Doan , Yiannis Psaras , Jörg Ott , Vaibhav Bajpai

Researchers in the field of materials science, chemistry, and computational physics are regularly posed with the challenge of managing large and heterogeneous data spaces. The amount of data increases in lockstep with computational…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Carl S. Adorf , Paul M. Dodd , Vyas Ramasubramani , Sharon C. Glotzer

Ensuring the reproducibility of scientific work is crucial as it allows the consistent verification of scientific claims and facilitates the advancement of knowledge by providing a reliable foundation for future research. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Lázaro Costa , Susana Barbosa , Jácome Cunha

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy has opened new frontiers in understanding the cosmos, while the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in science promises to revolutionize data analysis methodologies. However, a significant gap…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-28 Tianyu Zhao , Yue Zhou , Ruijun Shi , Zhoujian Cao , Zhixiang Ren

Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a nonlinear computational imaging technique that can provide detailed estimates of subsurface geophysical properties. Solving the FWI problem can be challenging due to its ill-posedness and high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Renán Rojas-Gómez , Jihyun Yang , Youzuo Lin , James Theiler , Brendt Wohlberg

Context: New software development patterns are emerging aiming at accelerating the process of delivering value. One is Continuous Experimentation, which allows to systematically deploy and run instrumented software variants during…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Federico Giaimo , Hugo Andrade , Christian Berger

Collaborative Intrusion Detection Systems (CIDS) are increasingly adopted to counter cyberattacks, as their collaborative nature enables them to adapt to diverse scenarios across heterogeneous environments. As distributed critical…

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