Astro2020 APC White Paper: Astronomy should be in the clouds. (arXiv:1907.06320v1 [astro-ph.IM])
<a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Smith_A/0/1/0/all/0/1">Arfon M. Smith</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Pike_R/0/1/0/all/0/1">Rob Pike</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+OMullane_W/0/1/0/all/0/1">William O'Mullane</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Economou_F/0/1/0/all/0/1">Frossie Economou</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Bolton_A/0/1/0/all/0/1">Adam Bolton</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Momcheva_I/0/1/0/all/0/1">Ivelina Momcheva</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Bauer_A/0/1/0/all/0/1">Amanda E Bauer</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Becker_B/0/1/0/all/0/1">Bruce Becker</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Bellm_E/0/1/0/all/0/1">Eric Bellm</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Connolly_A/0/1/0/all/0/1">Andrew Connolly</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Crawford_S/0/1/0/all/0/1">Steven M. Crawford</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Hathi_N/0/1/0/all/0/1">Nimish Hathi</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Melchior_P/0/1/0/all/0/1">Peter Melchior</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Peek_J/0/1/0/all/0/1">Joshua Peek</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Solmaz_A/0/1/0/all/0/1">Arif Solmaz</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Thomson_R/0/1/0/all/0/1">Ross Thomson</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+TollerudI_E/0/1/0/all/0/1">Erik TollerudI</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Liska_D/0/1/0/all/0/1">David W. Liska</a>
Commodity cloud computing, as provided by commercial vendors such as Amazon,
Google, and Microsoft, has revolutionized computing in many sectors. With the
advent of a new class of big data, public access astronomical facility such as
LSST, DKIST, and WFIRST, there exists a real opportunity to combine these
missions with cloud computing platforms and fundamentally change the way
astronomical data is collected, processed, archived, and curated. Making these
changes in a cross-mission, coordinated way can provide unprecedented economies
of scale in personnel, data collection and management, archiving, algorithm and
software development and, most importantly, science.
Commodity cloud computing, as provided by commercial vendors such as Amazon,
Google, and Microsoft, has revolutionized computing in many sectors. With the
advent of a new class of big data, public access astronomical facility such as
LSST, DKIST, and WFIRST, there exists a real opportunity to combine these
missions with cloud computing platforms and fundamentally change the way
astronomical data is collected, processed, archived, and curated. Making these
changes in a cross-mission, coordinated way can provide unprecedented economies
of scale in personnel, data collection and management, archiving, algorithm and
software development and, most importantly, science.
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