Workshop on Distributed Computing in Astrophysics, December 10+11, 2015

While the performance of the computing hardware is rapidly evolving the evolution is no more primarily due to development of a single processor but is rather achieved by increase of the number of coordinated processing units. Distributed hardware requires special design of the software, supporting dedicated parallel algorithms, reliable and resilient, capable of handling simultaneous access to large and diverse data. Distributed systems have different degrees of integration: cores at each CPU or GPU, nodes at a computing cluster, or world-wide heterogeneous systems like grids or clouds. Different systems set different requirements for the software.

The François Arago Centre organises a workshop on December 10 + 11, 2015 to tackle these challenges. In this 2-day workshop we will learn about the status and future plans of distributed computing in the context of astrophysical projects. In addition, we will have hands-on session to experience how distributed computing using the Hadoop system works, and how astrophysical analysis on a virtual system already today is successfully put into place in the HERA analysis service.

There’s no registration fee, but registration is mandatory.

For more information and to register, please access the workshop page.