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The Subaru Seminar is
usually held in Room 104 of the Hilo Base Facility, adjacent
to the main lobby. Everyone is welcome to attend. If you are
interested in giving a seminar, please contact Subaru seminar organizers
(Tae-Soo Pyo, Sherry Yeh, Nagayoshi Ohashi)
by email : sseminar_at_subaru.naoj.org (please change"_at" to @).
January 28, Thursday, 02:00 pm in 104
" The Canadian Astronomy Data Centre "
David Schade
(NRC)
The Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC) has a 30 year history of data
management supporting the science of astronomy. The CADC was born along with
the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and has contributed strongly to the pioneering
efforts that have led to the demonstration that more science comes from "archival"
data than comes from the initial research of HST Principal Investigators.
The CADC became a multi-observatory data centres over 20 years ago and handles
data from several major facilities and numerous projects. We have been world
leaders in integration of all of our data collections into a single homogeneous data
system and we are leaders in the International Virtual Observatory Alliance
movement.
For the past five years the CADC has collaborated with the university-led Canadian
Advanced Network for Astronomical Research in creating and operating a cloud-
based distributed storage and processing system to support astronomy research.
The CANFAR platform aims to deliver a national computing infrastructure for data-
intensive science that satisfies the needs for scalability and flexibility that the era of
Big Data demands. CANFAR and CADC are being extended to the international
community in collaboration with the European Grid Infrastructure project and we
plan to operate and integrated system of CANFAR nodes in Italy, France, Hawaii, and
elsewhere.
Seminars are also held at JAC,
CFHT,
and IfA.
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