Sep 23–26, 2019

Petar Zecevic
Chief Technology Officer, 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.

Sessions

11:20am–12:00pm Thursday, September 26, 2019

Location: 1E 07/08

Using Spark for crunching astronomical data on the LSST scale

Data Engineering and Architecture

Secondary topics: Data Integration and Data Processing

Petar Zecevic (SV Group)

The Large Scale Survey Telescope (LSST) is one of the most important future surveys. Its unique design allows it to cover large regions of the sky and obtain images of the faintest objects. After 10 years of operation, it will produce about 80 PB of data in images and catalog data. Petar Zecevic explains AXS, a system built for fast processing and cross-matching of survey catalog data. Read more.