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Using MapReduce for Image Coaddition 6
Summary
- The paper presents implementation and evaluation of image coaddition within the MapReduce data-processing framework using Hadoop.
Workflow
Data
- Processed dataset containing 100,000 individual FITS files
Cloud platform
- Hadoop on cluster
Cloud performance
- Process 100,000 files (300 million pixels) in three minutes on a 400-node cluster
Issues/Gaps
CANFAR: Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomical Research 7
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