VO-KOREL: A Fourier disentangling service of Virtual Observatory

TL;DR

VO-KOREL is a web-based service that simplifies Fourier disentangling for astronomers by integrating Virtual Observatory technology, cloud computing, and user-friendly interfaces for data analysis and job management.

Contribution

It introduces a novel web service that combines Virtual Observatory standards with distributed computing to facilitate Fourier disentangling in astronomy.

Findings

Provides an intuitive graphical front-end for Fourier disentangling.

Integrates cloud computing and job management features.

Enables easy extension to grid-based computing environments.

Abstract

VO-KOREL is a web service exploiting the technology of Virtual Observatory for providing the astronomers with the intuitive graphical front-end and distributed computing back-end running the most recent version of Fourier disentangling code KOREL. The system integrates the ideas of the e-shop basket, conserving the privacy of every user by transfer encryption and access authentication, with features of laboratory notebook, allowing the easy housekeeping of both input parameters and final results, as well as it explores a newly emerging technology of cloud computing. While the web-based front-end allows the user to submit data and parameter files, edit parameters, manage a job list, resubmit or cancel running jobs and mainly watching the text and graphical results of a disentangling process, the main part of the back-end is a simple job queue submission system executing in parallel multiple instances of FORTRAN code KOREL. This may be easily extended for GRID-based deployment on massively parallel computing clusters. The short introduction into underlying technologies is given, briefly mentioning advantages as well as bottlenecks of the design used.