Focus Demo: CANFAR+Skytree: A Cloud Computing and Data Mining System for Astronomy


Abstract in English

This is a companion Focus Demonstration article to the CANFAR+Skytree poster (Ball 2012), demonstrating the usage of the Skytree machine learning software on the Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomical Research (CANFAR) cloud computing system. CANFAR+Skytree is the worlds first cloud computing system for data mining in astronomy.

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