isis folks at ADASS Quebec

Dear isis users,

   If any of you are going to the ADASS meeting in Quebec next week,
http://adass2008.artisan.net/info.php
feel free to track down myself or Mike Noble for an informal "Hi",
isis chat, demo, etc.
   FYI, below I list the BoF session that Mike has organized and
I give our poster titles as well.

merci et bon chances,

-Dan

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BoF 3 :  Parallel and distributed computing in Astronomy
Michael Noble (mnoble_at_email.domain.hidden From multicore desktops to massively parallel Beowulf clusters,  
astronomers have access to an unprecedented level of computing power.  
The aim of this BOF session is to build a sense of the high  
performance computing landscape in astronomy, by providing a forum for  
practitioners to collect, discuss their experience, and voice their  
perspective, irrespective of the languages, libraries, or hardware  
being utilized.

We will open by discussing the use of parallelism within what is  
perhaps the most common scientific activity in astronomy: modeling and  
analysis of observational data. Though a majority of papers published  
in observational astronomy result from fitting models within  
established software systems, few researchers employ parallelism to do  
so, especially in the interactive context. Subsequent presentations  
and discussion are invited for a broader range of topics, including  
but not limited to: parallel image processing, large-scale simulations  
and visualization, database and pipeline processing, et cetera.

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Michael NOBLE  Session: C.06
  Parallelizing the XSTAR Photoionization Code

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Daniel DEWEY   Session: A.11
  Beyond spectra: Simulation and fitting of multi-dimensional X-ray data

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     Daniel Dewey                           dd_at_email.domain.hidden     MIT Kavli Institute              Office:(617) 253-7244
     70 Vassar St., NE80-6085            Fax:(617) 253-8084
     Cambridge, MA 02139         http://space.mit.edu/home/dd
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