Sep 23–26, 2019
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Using Spark for crunching astronomical data on the LSST scale

Petar Zecevic (SV Group)
11:20am12:00pm Thursday, September 26, 2019
Location: 1E 07/08
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Who is this presentation for?

  • Data engineers, software architects, big data, and astronomy enthusiasts

Level

Beginner

Description

The slew of upcoming large-scale astronomical surveys promises exciting times for astronomy and computer science. One of the most important future surveys is the LSST. Its unique design and excellent location allow it to go both wide and deep at the same time, covering large regions of the sky and obtaining images of the faintest objects. LSST will produce one 3.2 giga-pixel image every 20 seconds every night for 10 years, resulting in the first “video” of the deep sky in history and (according to some estimates) about 80 PB of data. Furthermore, the worldwide scientific community will receive real-time alerts triggered by changes in the sky within 60 seconds of their detection.

Petar Zecevic explains how the LSST image processing pipeline uses acquired images to produce catalogs of astronomical objects. Together with colleagues from University of Washington, Petar built Astronomy Extensions for Spark (AXS), a system for processing and quickly cross-matching catalog data, based on Apache Spark. You’ll learn about its architecture and what’s behind its great performance.

Prerequisite knowledge

  • A basics understanding of distributed data processing and SQL

What you'll learn

  • Gain an introduction to LSST data-processing pipelines and details of a distributed spatial cross-matching approach
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Petar Zecevic

SV Group

Petar Zecevic is the chief technology officer of SV Group in Zagreb, Croatia, while pursuing his PhD at the University of Zagreb. He’s collaborating with the Astronomy Department at the University of Washington on building new methods for processing images and data from future astronomical surveys. Previously, he was a Java developer and worked as a software architect, team leader, and IBM software consultant. After switching to the exciting new field of big data technologies, he wrote Spark in Action (Manning, 2016) and primarily works on Apache Spark and big data projects.

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