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Telescope
Data
Challenge 3b
in the Chilean Andes and
slated for first light in 2014
and full operation by 2016,
will produce over 15
terabytes of raw astronomical
data each night, resulting in a
database catalog of 22
Petabytes and an image
archive of 100 Petabytes by
the end of the 10-year
survey. This TG allocated
project addresses the goals of
the second half of the third
data challenge (DC3b),
which focuses on the
production of science data
products from an archive's
worth of data.
discussions
completed w/
SDSC contacts
Data
Transposition
Development
for Exa-scale
Data in
Memory
John Helly
University of
California,
San Diego
Cloud data is voluminous
and this is a pilot study of the
utility of Dash for use in
CMMAP data analysis
activities. Temporal
snapshots of data need to be
read into memory, merged,
and resulting dataset is
analyzed.
Startup allocation
was approved.
Preliminary
discussions
completed. An
OpenMP proof of
concept code was
developed and
tested. Read 256
temporal
snapshots with an
aggregated size
of 128GB in
memory
11 Project Management
11.1 Highlights
A new section of the quarterly report Section 9 Evaluation, Monitoring, and Auditing was added
now that the first XD awards have been made for the XD Technology Audit Service and the XD
Technology Insertion Service.
11.2 Project Management Working Group
11.2.1 Tracking
The IPP/WBS tracking process is continuing with project managers reviewing status with area
directors. The area directors are finding the tracking process to be a useful exercise, providing
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