The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Drinking from the Fire Hose

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey science archive represents a thousand-fold increase in the total amount of data that astronomers have collected to date. The pioneering instrumentation technology that made this possible is matched by groundbreaking tools that let anyone in the world access terabytes of...

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Published in:Computing in science & engineering 2008-01, Vol.10 (1), p.9-12
Main Author: Thakar, Ani R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archives
astronomy
Data engineering
Data mining
database management systems
Digital
Drinking
Fires
Hoses
Image databases
Instrumentation
Instruments
large-scale databases
Mirrors
On-line systems
Pipelines
SDSS
Sky
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Science Archive
Space technology
Telescopes
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Summary:The Sloan Digital Sky Survey science archive represents a thousand-fold increase in the total amount of data that astronomers have collected to date. The pioneering instrumentation technology that made this possible is matched by groundbreaking tools that let anyone in the world access terabytes of SDSS data online.
ISSN:1521-9615
1558-366X
DOI:10.1109/MCSE.2008.17