Interesting project, Alexandre! On 5/6/14, Alexandre Bergel <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Kilon for your nice words. > Currently, AstroCloud is a bit slow. For example, loading this image takes > much more than it should. For now, speed is not our priority. AstroCloud has > to be fast and we will make it fast. Probably relying on external library is > the way to go.
I assume you consider or have considered NativeBoost as well? > > Just to give a bit more context about why we are doing AstroCloud. ALMA is > the largest observatory on Earth, making it the largest astronomical project > in existence (http://www.almaobservatory.org). This is what humanity has > best to detect life outside Earth. > ALMA is made of 66 high-precision antenas making it possible to see deep in > the universe. Unfortunately, there is no good software to process these > immensely complex pictures. Some tool suite naturally exist, but they were > not made for ALMA, making these existing tools largely suboptimal to process > complex picture of ALMA. > Faviola’s dream (and mine) is to produce a tool ready to be consumed by > astronomers to process ALMA pictures. Faviola and I are currently seeking > for additional resources on making this happen. > Regarding your help about documenting Roassal. It is very welcome! In one of > my previous post, I said that 2014 will be the year of documenting Roassal. > A book is on its way. >We will need people to review it. So thanks! Preview of part of it on line? Regards Hannes
