Astrophysics and Big Data: Challenges, Methods, and Tools
Abstract
Nowadays there is no field research which is not flooded with data. Among the sciences, Astrophysics has always been driven by the analysis of massive amounts of data. The development of new and more sophisticated observation facilities, both ground-based and spaceborne, has led data more and more complex (Variety), an exponential growth of both data Volume (i.e., in the order of petabytes), and Velocity in terms of production and transmission. Therefore, new and advanced processing solutions will be needed to process this huge amount of data. We investigate some of these solutions, based on machine learning models as well as tools and architectures for Big Data analysis that can be exploited in the astrophysical context.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1703.05084,
title = {Astrophysics and Big Data: Challenges, Methods, and Tools},
author = {Mauro Garofalo and Alessio Botta and Giorgio Ventre},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.05084},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figures, proceedings of the IAU-325 symposium on Astroinformatics, Cambridge University press