AstroCloud: A Distributed Cloud Computing and Application Platform for Astronomy

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10.2991/icwcsn-16.2017.108How to use a DOI?

Keywords

astronomy; virtual observatory; lifecycle management; interoperability.

Abstract

Virtual Observatory (VO) is a data-intensively online astronomical research and education environment, which takes advantages of advanced information technologies to achieve seamless and global access to astronomical information. AstroCloud is a cyber-infrastructure for astronomy research initiated by Chinese Virtual Observatory (China-VO) project, and also a kind of physical distributed platform which integrates lots of tasks such as telescope access proposal management, data archiving, data quality control, data release and open access, cloud based data processing and analysis. It consists of five application channels, i.e. observation, data, tools, cloud and public and is acting as a full lifecycle management system and gateway for astronomical data and telescopes. Physically, the platform is hosted in six cities currently, i.e. Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Kunming, Lijiang and Urumqi, and serving more than 17 thousand users. Achievements from international Virtual Observatories and Cloud Computing are adopted heavily. In the paper, backgrounds of the project, architecture, Cloud Computing environment, key features of the system, current status and future plans are introduced.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chen-Zhou Cui
AU  - Bo-Liang He
AU  - Chang-Hua Li
AU  - Dong-Wei Fan
AU  - Shan-Shan Li
AU  - Lin-Ying Mi
AU  - Zi-Huang Cao
AU  - Si-Si Yang
AU  - Yun-Fei Xu
AU  - Yue Chen
AU  - Zheng Li
AU  - Xu Han
PY  - 2016/12
DA  - 2016/12
TI  - AstroCloud: A Distributed Cloud Computing and Application Platform for Astronomy
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks (WCSN 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 532
EP  - 536
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icwcsn-16.2017.108
DO  - 10.2991/icwcsn-16.2017.108
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