Chris Pritchett Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria Presented at the Cybera/CANARIE National Summit 2009, as part of the session "Research Transformed by Cyberinfrastructure." This panel featured researchers who have seen their work transformed through cyberinfrastructure – ie. collaborations made possible, mountains of data rendered intelligible, remote instrumentation accessed.

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2. Kostas Glinos, EGEE09
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4. Manchester Guardian Oct 6
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6. Cyberinfrastructure in the 80's
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7. Telescope vs. CCD
total area in 3m+ telescopes [m2]
total CCD area [Megapix]

9. Cyberinfrastructure
Transforms Research:
Supernovae and Cosmology
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10. Expansion of the Universe
Feb 9th, 1948
Hubble 1929
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11. Fate of the Universe
past future
low
density
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size of
Universe
high
density
big
bang now
time
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12. Supernovae
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13. Brightness and "redshift"
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14. MegaCam at the Canada-
France-Hawaii Telescope
~ 0.5 Gigapixels
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15. The Universe - a
dark energy 70%
dark
matter
25%
normal
matter
5%
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16. Supernova Survey
!! Images taken at CFHT in Hawaii
!! Find supernovae within ~12 hr
!! software in Victoria
!! database in Toronto
!! Obtain spectra on 8m class telescopes in Hawaii
and Chile
!! within 1-2 nights of imaging data
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17. CFHT
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19. ~100 GB/night
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20. Cyberinfrastructure
Transforms Research:
Archiving and Data Mining
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21. Changing Sociology of Astronomy
1600's
1970's
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22. Changing Sociology of Astronomy
!! Science Teams 25 years ago:
!! Individuals or groups of 2-3 people
!! Allocations of a few nights of telescope
time/year
!! Small data collections for each project
!! Science Teams Today:
!! groups of dozens of people all over the
world
!! Allocations of 10%-30% of ALL
telescope time is not uncommon
!! Large data collections for each project
!! Why the change?
!! Better, more comprehensive science
from large surveys
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23. Canadian Astronomy
Data Centre
HST
!! Delivers 2 Terabytes
FUSE per week to users
!! 2500 distinct users
MOST !! 87 countries
CFHT
!! Serve all Canadian
astronomy research
Gemini universities
!! Largest astronomy data
BLAST centre in the world (by
data volume)
JCMT
CGPS
MACHO

24. GB CADC archive stats per year
CADC: a week in the life
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25. Changing Role of CADC
!! CADC 25 years ago:
!! Archived data
!! Made data accessible
!! Today
!! Design data management processes and systems in collaboration with
observatories and Science Teams
!! Implement and Operate these data management systems
!! Why the change?
!! Individual Science Teams cannot handle the processing and storage
requirements for very large survey projects
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26. SDSS Archive
!! 10,000 sq deg (1/4 sky)
!! 3D map of "local" Universe
(volume about 1030 cubic
light yrs)
!! ~100 TB (FermiLab)
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27. SDSS Data mining
Luc Simard (HIA)
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28. Cyberinfrastructure
Transforms Research:
Access to Publications
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29. Alexandria c. 400 AD
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33. arXiv.org
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34. Cyberinfrastructure
Transforms Research:
Canarie NEP39 - CANFAR
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37. Cyberinfrastructure
Transforms Research:
The Future
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38. Cyberinfrastructure
Transforms Research:
The Future
"Our task is not to forsee the future, but to enable it."
Antoine de Saint-Expuréy
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39. The Petabyte Tsunami: Radio Astro
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40. The Petabyte Tsunami: LHC, Geneva
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41. International Liquid Mirror
Telescope (ILMT)
!! >200 GB/night presents
challenges from India
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45. Come back to
!! my notes from Fri meeting
!! my "CyberPanel ideas" !! reorganize ADS stuff
msg Oct 9 2:31pm - lots of !! reorganize NY times thing
good things at end
•! cosmic zoom?
!! summary/questions for
future
!! reorganize ADS stuff
!! definition of
cyberinfrastrucure -
Baru .ppt from
SACNAS2005
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