PASS Community Summit 2008: Microsoft SQLCAT Sessions

Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban

Johns Hopkins University

Maria Nieto-Santisteban is a senior software engineer at the Johns Hopkins University. Her main research and interests focus in Very Large (Astronomy) Databases and parallel data processing. She is working currently on the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) project as the designer and technical lead of the Object Data Manager (ODM), the most complex component of Published Science Product Subsystem. The ODM will become the biggest astronomical database when Pan-STARRS starts collecting data in early 2009. She is a member of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey project where she has researched, implemented, and optimized several spatial and cross-match algorithms. She is actively involved in many activities of the National Virtual Observatory and International Virtual Observatory Alliance projects. Prior to her current position, she worked at STScI designing parallel algorithms for processing image data onboard the James Web Space Telescope.

Co-Presenting with Michael Thomassy:

SQLCAT - Pan-STARRS: Building 100TB+ Scientific VLDBs with SQL Server 2008



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