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| Paper: |
Taking Advantage of Cloud Solutions to Balance Requests in an Astrophysical Data Center |
| Volume: |
512, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXV |
| Page: |
569 |
| Authors: |
Molinaro, M.; Cepparo, F.; Scagnetto, I.; Smareglia, R. |
| Abstract: |
A complete astrophysical publishing environment, working as a helper system for an
astrophysical data center, requires various components, from custom data back ends up to more or less
standardized (e.g. Virtual Observatory driven) front end solutions. Combining this environment into one
framework can lead to a potentially non scalable or hardly improvable system. In this contribution we
describe what we are planning and developing to take advantage of cloud computing infrastructures and of
a modular/distributed component architecture to provide a scalable and maintainable publishing
environment at the Italian center for Astronomical Archives (IA2) at the INAF (Italian National Institute
for Astrophysics) Astronomical Observatory of Trieste. Using a set of modular services, connected by
registered interfaces, we are planning to use automated balancing at the front end to allocate services
on demand in a cloud environment and allow generic data access in the back end archive solution. |
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