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Statistical Computations with AstroGrid and the Grid

Robert C Nichol, Garry Smith, Christopher J Miller, Chris Genovese, Larry Wasserman, Brent Bryan, Alexander Gray, Jeff Schneider, Andrew W Moore

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0511437

Abstract

We outline our first steps towards marrying two new and emerging technologies; the Virtual Observatory (e.g, AstroGrid) and the computational grid. We discuss the construction of VOTechBroker, which is a modular software tool designed to abstract the tasks of submission and management of a large number of computational jobs to a distributed computer system. The broker will also interact with the AstroGrid workflow and MySpace environments. We present our planned usage of the VOTechBroker in computing a huge number of n-point correlation functions from the SDSS, as well as fitting over a million CMBfast models to the WMAP data.

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