1 STATISTICAL COMPUTATIONS WITH ASTROGRID AND THE GRID
Robert C. Nichol, Smith, G, Miller, C J, Christopher R. Genovese, Larry Wasserman, Brent Bryan, Gray, A, Schneider, J, Moore, A W · 2005
We outline our first steps towards marrying two new and emerging technologies; the Virtual Observatory (e.g, Astro-Grid) 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. 1.