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A 3-minute rant on the "deluge of data" in astr...

Geert Barentsen
December 08, 2014

A 3-minute rant on the "deluge of data" in astronomy

A rant presented at the sixth dot Astronomy conference, 8 December 2014, Chicago.

Geert Barentsen

December 08, 2014
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  1. A 3-minute rant on the "deluge of data" in astronomy

    by Geert Barentsen (@GeertHub) 1
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  3. 2000 (SDSS) vs 2022 (LSST), if trends continue: • 81x

    more pixels; • 190x faster I/O; • 2565x more storage; • 120 578x faster internet; • 1 202 277x faster supercomputers. 10
  4. The increase in CCD data is vastly outstripped by the

    deluge of computing power. (Not true for radio astronomy.) 11
  5. Let’s ride the tsunami of computing power! Graphs and data

    points are here: http://github.com/barentsen/tech-progress-data 12