Astrophysics in S.Co.P.E

TL;DR

The paper discusses the S.Co.P.E. project, which develops distributed computing infrastructure and research tools for astrophysics and cosmology, highlighting significant early results in middleware and data mining for the Virtual Observatory.

Contribution

It presents new middleware and data mining tools tailored for astrophysics within the S.Co.P.E. distributed computing project.

Findings

Development of middleware for the Virtual Observatory

Implementation of data mining tools for astrophysics

Initial results in distributed computing infrastructure

Abstract

S.Co.P.E. is one of the four projects funded by the Italian Government in order to provide Southern Italy with a distributed computing infrastructure for fundamental science. Beside being aimed at building the infrastructure, S.Co.P.E. is also actively pursuing research in several areas among which astrophysics and observational cosmology. We shortly summarize the most significant results obtained in the first two years of the project and related to the development of middleware and Data Mining tools for the Virtual Observatory.