ASTRONOMY

The University is also at the forefront of a growing trend that's bringing all astronomical catalogues and research from around the world online. THE CHALLENGE The biggest challenge for CASU was the time and availability of the data that CASU collects on the stars every night, in some cases up to 100GB of data. It was taking far too long, often months, for the data to be loaded into the University's database and then made available for analysis and research purposes. This was because the data had to be indexed in multiple ways so that the University's database could then store the data appropriately and make it searchable for research queries around the world. In a nutshell, this catalogue of data is the foundation for thousands of astronomy and science discoveries around the world. And those discoveries could only happen as fast as this research was made available. THE SOLUTION Cambridge University turned to Kognitio and HP for a technology solution that could enable the University to analyze and catalogue this research faster, so it could be used for important astronomy and science discovery worldwide. In this situation of large and complex data analytics, where Cambridge University was faced with the challenge of how they could quickly analyze highly granular data, they needed a solution that was high performance but not high cost. The University is using Kognitio's WX2, a high performance analytical database software solution that is optimized for the analysis of large-scale data. The solution offers speed and flexibility in loading data and running analysis queries against that data. HP Flexible Computing Services is a utility computing service that allows the University to tap into HP computing power when it's needed, therefore eliminating technology hardware implementation costs.