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

Abstract

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 world's first cloud computing system for data mining in astronomy.

4 pages, 2 figures, uses asp2010.sty. Written when at National Research Council Canada. Now at Skytree, Inc., San Jose, CA, USA. There is a companion paper: "CANFAR+Skytree: A Cloud Computing and Data Mining System for Astronomy". Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems (ADASS) XXII, 2012, ASP Conference Proceedings, eds. Friedel D., Freemon M., Plante R. (San Francisco: ASP)