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| Paper: |
The AstroHDF Effort |
| Volume: |
461, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXI |
| Page: |
871 |
| Authors: |
Masters, J.; Alexov, A.; Folk, M.; Hanisch, R.; Heber, G.; Wise, M. |
| Abstract: |
Here we update the astronomy community on our effort to deal with the
demands of ever-increasing astronomical data size and complexity, using the
Hierarchical Data Format, version 5 (HDF5) format (Wise et al. 2011). NRAO, LOFAR and VAO have
joined forces with The HDF Group to write an NSF grant, requesting funding to
assist in the effort. This paper briefly summarizes our motivation for the proposed project, an outline of the project itself, and some of the material discussed at the ADASS Birds of a Feather (BoF) discussion. Topics of discussion included: community experiences with HDF5 and other file formats; toolsets which exist and/or can be adapted for HDF5; a call for development towards visualizing large (> 1 TB) image cubes; and, general lessons learned from working with large and complex data. |
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