PGCon2008 - Final - we hope
PGCon 2008
The PostgreSQL Conference
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Curt Tilmes |
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| Day | Talks - first day (2008-05-22) |
| Room | A |
| Start time | 15:00 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 108 |
| Event type | lecture |
| Track | Applications |
| Language | en |
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NASA
Satellite Science Data Processing with PostgreSQL
Over the last several decades, NASA has been one of the major collectors of Earth climate observations from space. The quantity of data from satellites has been exploding with the current generation producing hundreds of terrabytes of science data products each year.
The tools used to process this vast quantity of data have evolved over the years as well. This talk will include an overview of science data processing and discuss the evolution of the ground system processing from large scale proprietary Unix platforms and traditional commercial databases to Open Source solutions including commodity clusters of Linux machines, Perl based software frameworks, and PostgreSQL. It will discuss how we use PostgreSQL to track metadata and provenance throughout the data processing.