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CANFAR: the Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomical Research

2010; SPIE; Volume: 7740; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/12.858026

1996-756X

S. Gaudet, Norman Hill, P. Armstrong, N. Ball, Jeff Burke, Brian Chapel, E. L. Chapin, Adrian Damian, Patrick Dowler, Ian Gable, S. Goliath, Isabella Ghiurea, S. Fabbro, Stephen Gwyn, Dustin Jenkins, J. J. Kavelaars, Brian Major, John Ouellette, Mike Paterson, Michael Peddle, D Penfold-Brown, C. J. Pritchet, D. Schade, R. Sobie, David Woods, Alinga Yeung, Yuehai Zhang,

Astronomy and Astrophysical Research

The Canadian Advanced Network For Astronomical Research (CANFAR) is a 2 1/2-year project that is delivering a network-enabled platform for the accessing, processing, storage, analysis, and distribution of very large astronomical datasets. The CANFAR infrastructure is being implemented as an International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) compliant web service infrastructure. A challenging feature of the project is to channel all survey data through Canadian research cyberinfrastructure. Sitting behind the portal service, the internal architecture makes use of high-speed networking, cloud computing, cloud storage, meta-scheduling, provisioning and virtualisation. This paper describes the high-level architecture and the current state of the project.