... The pinhole simulation program is a computationally and memory intensive task. ... A parallel version was developed instead, to enable distributed processing on a cluster of workstations. The program makes use of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard for parallel processing, implemented as an API (Application Programming Interface) to the Local Area Multicomputer (LAM) programming environment developed at the Ohio Supercomputer Center. ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

... RelatedљPages . ... FITS-WCS and related software . Several implementations of the FITS WCS standards are available: . The WCSLIB software distribution (i.e. this library) may be obtained from http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Mark.Calabretta/WCS/ . ... The Kapteyn Package http://www.astro.rug.nl/software/kapteyn/ by Hans Terlouw and Martin Vogelaar. pywcs , http://stsdas.stsci.edu/astrolib/pywcs/ by Michael Droettboom. ... Gentoo, http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-astronomy/wcslib . ...

. 500 bps: safing only . 4000 bps: original standard . 32000 bps: current standard . Operates on one byte quantities . Handles both hardware and software data . Table driven definition of telemetry format allows for changes with time . Cycles through 200 1-byte parameters in 50 msec. (one minor frame) . Processes 4 1-byte parameters each cycle of the 1kHz process . 1200 minor frames in a major frame (60 seconds) . Previous slide . Next slide . Back to first slide . View graphic version . Ъ

DFS Department . Standard and recommended development tools . ... This tool is available on request from Helpdesk (except for the following machines: dfs3, dfs4 and dfs5, for which you have to contact Carlos ). ... Source Navigator IDE is recommended as a source code analysis and navigator tool for C, C++, Java, Tcl, [incr Tcl], FORTRAN and even COBOL on Linux:. ... webcheck is the DFS standard tool for archiving/retrieving DFS documents, web pages, Release Notes, schedules and ToDo lists. ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... OPUS­97: A Generalized Operational Pipeline System J. Rose CSC: Computer Sciences Corporation, Inc. ... OPUS is the platform on which the telemetry pipeline at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute is running currently. ... The OPUS platform handles communication with the OPUS black­ board; individual processes within this pipeline need have no knowledge of OPUS, of the blackboard, or of the pipeline itself. ...

Distributed Software for Observations in Near Infrared V. Gavryusev 1 and C. Baffa Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri E. Giani Dipartamento di Astronomia, Universit`a di Firenze Abstract. ... The processes denoted for control of hardware (telescope and other instruments) should be executed currently on PC dedicated for this task under DESQview/X, while all other components (user interface, tools for the data analysis, etc.) can work also under Unix. ... 1993, Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ...

... Posts tagged ?standard candle? ... In addition to Bayesian methodologies, like this week?s astro-ph, studies on characterizing empirical spatial distributions of voids and galaxies frequently appear, which I believe can be enriched further with the ideas from stochastic geometry and spatial statistics. Click for what was appeared in arXiv this week. ... 1 Comment . ... If you find any problems of viewing the slog, please notify me. ... Entries RSS . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

INTEGRAL SOURCE RESULTS PAGES AND ACCESS TO INTEGRAL DATA THROUGH VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY: SCIENTIFIC MOTIVATION AND RECENT STATUS Д Д Petr Kubanek1,2 and Rene Hudec 1 2 2 INTEGRAL Science Data Center, Chemin d'Ecogia 16, Versoix, Switzerland Astronomicky ustav Akademie ved Ceske republiky, Ondrejov, Czech Republic ДД Д ABSTRACT In its current status, the Virtual Observatory (VO) is an international effort to handle distributed databases of all data taken from the sky. ... The INTEGRAL Burst Alert System. ...

... Satellite data ] . ... SMIS IKI RAN has developed the software package which may be used both by owners of acquisition stations and individual users of satellite information. ... AVHRR instrument data processing. ... This enables the users who are not yet qualified in computer methods of satellite data processing, to get a quick start with the software. ... The basic software package enables a user to solve a wide range of tasks (in our server You can find the data processing samples ). ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... Forms . ... This page explains how you can embed input forms into wiki pages. ... input text name value size= n :) (:input hidden name value :) (:input password name value :) (:input radio name value :) (:input checkbox name value :) (:input select name value label :) (:input default default-name default-value :) (:input submit name value :) (:input textarea name [=value=] rows= n cols= n :) (:input reset name label :) (:input file name label :) (:input image name "src" alt :) . ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... Using UNIX System Calls and Library Functions . ... To use system calls and library functions in a C program we simply call the appropriate C function. Examples of standard library functions we have met include the higher level I/O functions -- fprintf() , malloc() .. ... For most system calls and library functions we have to include an appropriate header file. e.g. stdio.h, math.h . ... Information on nearly all system calls and library functions is available in manual pages. ...

On combined processing of different space geodetic observations . ... A software for combined processing of different space geodetic observations is developed along with the work on the co-location of various observational techniques at the observatories of Quasar VLBI network. ... Various aspects of the combined processing of different types of space geodetic observations are also discussed. ... space geodetic observations, combined processing, normal equations, software package, SINEX-format. ...

Following are instructions to build and install the programs in this distribution. Make sure that you have all necessary tools for building executables. ... The automatic build process expects a configuration file called Config.local . ... The configuration file specifies the directory in which to install the binaries, as well as control over the generation of debugging code and reference clock support. ... Cleans out object files, programs and temporary files. make distclean . ...

XmCCD ----- The programs provided here offer a Linux graphical user interface to astronomical and scientific CCD cameras. ... It is the latest one they offer and the files included allow support for Android and Mac OS X. This distribution of XmCCD includes source code to utilize the SBIG shared library libsbigudrv.so with a Motif-based graphical user interface. ... The XmCCD source package includes and will install: SAOimage ds9 xpa cfitsio SAOimage is the primary image display for XmCCD. ...

... The MIDAS system is built along lines which should allow easy integration of complex analysis algorithms as well as allowing greater flexibility in interactive use and in the creation of user specific procedures from the basic building blocks. ... The present version which became available in 1984 follows a similar philosophy in its application program interfaces, but has been expanded to the new Standard Interfaces which have a broader base than previously. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 1 rgso setcalc July 1, 2008 Abstract Calculate the mean and the standard deviation of the pulse height distribution of RGS diagnostic images. ... This will only be implemented at a later time, if in-orbit experience warrants it. rgso setcalc accepts a list of DIAGNOSTIC datasets (refer to the ODF ICD [1]. For each DIAGNOSTIC dataset rgso setcalc calculates the mean and standard deviation of the pulse height distribution. ...

Distributed system for water quality monitoring using remote-sensing data Shel estov A., Kravc henko A., Kussul N. Space Res earc h Institute of Ukraine, Kiev Mos c ow 2006 W ater Quality Service Goal: continuous monit oring of bio-optic al properties of water mass in Dnieper estuar y Tool: ocean c olor analysis - - The health of wat er Level of biologic al activit y Monitoring harmful algae ... Mos c ow 2006 ...