Virtual Astronomy

DarkKnightRadick writes: "In this day and age, data sharing, data mining and distributed computing are words most of us know well enough, but until recently, those phrases were connected with such projects as DNET, and more recently with SETI@Home. Now we should all welcome the newcomer, Virtual Astronomy. With the framework being developed by three different groups (one in the UK, one in the US, and one in Australia), one would expect this to be a very competitive field, but alas, this is not the case. The three groups are working together so that they can have it all up in running the in the projected 15 years that it will take to put all this data into an electronic format."

Comments

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[kgarcia]

Am I blind, or is there no information whatsoever on where I can be part of this. From what I could tell in the article, this is a project in which 3 labs are cooperating to make a lot of data available to researchers, but nowhere it says that it is a cooperative effort at all similar to SETI, at least, not in 15 years. . .

Competition

[pubjames]

With the framework being developed by three different groups (one in the UK, one in the US, and one in Australia), one would expect this to be a very competitive field, but alas, this is not the case. The three groups are working together so that they can have it all up in running the in the projected 15 years that it will take to put all this data into an electronic format.

Our village needs a new town hall. Because we're modern progressive thinkers, rather than build one, we've decided that we're going to divide the village into three teams, and then compete to see which team can build a town hall first. Each team will get a grant from tax-payers money to build their hall. Obviously this will give us the best and most efficient result.