English
Related papers

Related papers: TeraScale SneakerNet: Using Inexpensive Disks for …

200 papers

The increasing congestion of Earth's orbit due to growing satellite deployments and space debris poses a significant challenge to sustainable space operations. Traditional space surveillance systems rely on centralized architectures, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Nesrine Benchoubane , Nida Fidan , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Enver Ozdemir

Low Orbit Satellite (LEO) networks such as Starlink promise Internet access everywhere around the world. In this paper, we present WetLinks - a large and publicly available trace-based dataset of Starlink measurements. The measurements were…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Dominic Laniewski , Eric Lanfer , Bernd Meijerink , Roland van Rijswijk-Deij , Nils Aschenbruck

The emergence of sixth-generation (6G) networks has spurred the development of novel testbeds, including sub-THz networks, cell-free systems, and 6G simulators. To maximize the benefits of these systems, it is crucial to make the generated…

Large digital sky surveys, over a broad range of wavelengths, both from the ground and from space observatories, are becoming a major source of astronomical data. Some examples include the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Digital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. George Djorgovski , Robert J. Brunner

We describe the design and implementation of a high performance cloud that we have used to archive, analyze and mine large distributed data sets. By a cloud, we mean an infrastructure that provides resources and/or services over the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-08-25 Robert L Grossman , Yunhong Gu

Cloud computing helps reduce costs, increase business agility and deploy solutions with a high return on investment for many types of applications, including data warehouses and on-line analytical processing. However, storing and…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Varunya Attasena , Nouria Harbi , Jérôme Darmont

This is a thought piece on data-intensive science requirements for databases and science centers. It argues that peta-scale datasets will be housed by science centers that provide substantial storage and processing for scientists who access…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jim Gray , David T. Liu , Maria Nieto-Santisteban , Alexander S. Szalay , David DeWitt , Gerd Heber

The unprecedented volume of data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescopes will require the implementation of robust and solid strategies for efficient data processing and management. In this context, the SKA Regional Centre Network…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 Edgar Ribeiro João , Manuel Parra-Royón , Julián Garrido

The Target infrastructure has been specially built as a storage and compute infrastructure for the information systems derived from Astro-WISE. This infrastructure will be used by several applications that collaborate in the area of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-06 A. N. Belikov , F. Dijkstra , J. A. Gankema , J. B. A. N. van Hoof , R. Koopman

Digital data explosion drives a demand for robust and reliable data storage medium. Development of better digital storage device to accumulate Zetta bytes (1 ZB = $10^{21}$ bytes ) of data that will be generated in near future is a big…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Dixita Limbachiya , Manish K. Gupta

Differentiable Logic Gate Networks (DLGNs) are a very fast and energy-efficient alternative to conventional feed-forward networks. With learnable combinations of logical gates, DLGNs enable fast inference by hardware-friendly execution.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Sven Brändle , Till Aczel , Andreas Plesner , Roger Wattenhofer

Many extreme-scale applications require the movement of large quantities of data to, from, and among leadership computing facilities, as well as other scientific facilities and the home institutions of facility users. These applications,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Weijian Zheng , Jack Kordas , Tyler J. Skluzacek , Raj Kettimuthu , Ian Foster

This paper proposes a system, entitled Concealer that allows sharing time-varying spatial data (e.g., as produced by sensors) in encrypted form to an untrusted third-party service provider to provide location-based applications (involving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Peeyush Gupta , Sharad Mehrotra , Shantanu Sharma , Nalini Venkatasubramanian , Guoxi Wang

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 movement of large-scale (tens of Terabytes and larger) data sets between high performance computing (HPC) facilities is an important and increasingly critical capability. A growing number of scientific collaborations rely on HPC…

Low Earth orbit Satellite Networks (LSNs) have been advocated as a key infrastructure for truly global coverage in the forthcoming 6G. This paper presents our initial measurement results and observations on the end-to-end network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Sami Ma , Yi Ching Chou , Haoyuan Zhao , Long Chen , Xiaoqiang Ma , Jiangchuan Liu

Scientific collaborations are increasingly relying on large volumes of data for their work and many of them employ tiered systems to replicate the data to their worldwide user communities. Each user in the community often selects a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Ruize Han , Alex Sim , Kesheng Wu , Inder Monga , Chin Guok , Frank Würthwein , Diego Davila , Justas Balcas , Harvey Newman

The goal of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is ``to map in detail one-quarter of the entire sky, determining the positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects''. The survey will be performed by taking…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Robert Lupton , Miller Maley , Neal Young

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) provides data on several hundred thousand galaxies. Precise location of these galaxies in the sky, along with information about their luminosities and line-of-sight (Doppler) velocities allows one to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-07 J. W. Moffat , V. T. Toth

Online analytical processing of queries on datasets in the many-terabyte range is only possible with costly distributed computing systems. To decrease the cost and increase the throughput, systems can leverage accelerators such as GPUs,…