3 papers
astro-ph.IM2022
The Cavendish Computors: The women working in scientific computing for Radio Astronomy
Verity Allan
A discussion of the history of scientific computing for Radio Astronomy in the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge in the decades after the Second World War. This c…
cs.CY2021
Scientific Computing in the Cavendish Laboratory and the pioneering women Computors
Verity Allan, Caitriona Leedham
The use of computers and the role of women in radio astronomy and X-ray crystallography research at the Cavendish Laboratory between 1949 and 1975 have been investigated. We record…
astro-ph.IM2018
On optimising cost and value in compute systems for radio astronomy
P. Chris Broekema, Verity L. Allan, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort +1
Large-scale science instruments, such as the distributed radio telescope LOFAR, show that we are in an era of data-intensive scientific discovery. Such instruments rely critically…