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SUMMARY:Challenges of the Gaia photometric processing - Marco Riello - Gai
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DTSTART:20181129T130000Z
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CONTACT:James Fergusson
DESCRIPTION:Gaia is a cornerstone mission of the European Space Agency tha
 t launched at the end of 2014. The goal of the mission is to map our Galax
 y performing a census of more than 1 billion objects in the Milky Way. The
  project involves more than 400 scientists and software engineers around E
 urope.\nThe IoA in Cambridge hosts one of the 5 data centres processing th
 e Gaia telemetry to produce science-grade data products which are made pub
 licly available to the scientific community through data releases.\nThis p
 resentation provides an overview of some of the data processing challenges
  posed by Gaia and how they were successfully tamed using distributed syst
 ems like Hadoop and Spark.
LOCATION:**Sackler Lecture Theare\, Institute of Astronomy**
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