Sciserver: a Science Platform for Astronomy and Beyond a ∗ a a a Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp , , Jai Won Kim , Gerard Lemson , Dmitry Medvedev ,M
SciServer: a Science Platform for Astronomy and Beyond a < a a a Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp , , Jai Won Kim , Gerard Lemson , Dmitry Medvedev ,M. a a a a a Jordan Raddick , Alexander S. Szalay , Aniruddha R. Thakar , Joseph Booker , Camy Chhetri , a,b a Laszlo Dobos and Michael Rippin aInstitute For Data Intensive Engineering and Science, Johns Hopkins University. 3701 San Martin Drive, Baltimore MD 21218, USA bDepartment of Physics of Complex Systems, Eotvos Lorand University, Pf. 32, H-1518 Budapest, Hungary ARTICLEINFO ABSTRACT Keywords: We present SciServer, a science platform built and supported by the Institute for Data Intensive En- science platform gineering and Science at the Johns Hopkins University. SciServer builds upon and extends the Sky- education Server system of server-side tools that introduced the astronomical community to SQL (Structured computing Query Language) and has been serving the Sloan Digital Sky Survey catalog data to the public. SciS- databases erver uses a Docker/VM based architecture to provide interactive and batch mode server-side analysis server-side analytics with scripting languages like Python and R in various environments including Jupyter (notebooks), data science RStudio and command-line in addition to traditional SQL-based data analysis. Users have access to private file storage as well as personal SQL database space. A flexible resource access control system allows users to share their resources with collaborators, a feature that has also been very useful in classroom environments. All these services, wrapped in a layer of REST APIs, constitute a scalable collaborative data-driven science platform that is attractive to science disciplines beyond astronomy.
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