After about 15 years of operations, much of the software and hardware of the LOFAR radio telescope is upgraded to deliver LOFAR 2.0. Part of this upgrade is a renewed software architecture.
LOFAR 1 consisted mostly of in-house software products and protocols for its functionality, information exchange, and service management. These codes ran on open source OSes and libraries.
LOFAR 2...
XMMGPT is a dual-purpose project which aims to serve as a unique access point to aid astronomers in their research with XMM-Newton data, and as an exploration of language models and AI systems within European Space Agency (ESA) workflows.
The system is comprised of 4 main parts, a heavily customized Agentic Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline, a visibility checker tool, a...
SciServer is a high-impact, highly successful Science Platform with a well-developed existing code base; an established user community; and demonstrated impact on scientific discovery, research, and education. SciServer has demonstrated a transformational impact in astronomy, providing collaborative features such as groups and file sharing, and free computational resources to access large...