SoftwareApplication
name: Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomical Research (CANFAR)
description: The Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomy Research (CANFAR) is a consortium that serves data-intensive storage, access, and processing needs of university groups and centers engaged in astronomy research.
description: # Purpose The Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomy Research is a consortium that serves data-intensive storage, access, and processing needs of university groups and centers engaged in astronomy research. To this end, CANFAR develops and operates user-facing and integrated services, such as: * Research Data Management * User-managed storage and cloud processing * Specialized visualization and analytics services * Support to researchers in adapting the system to their needs # Mission * To maintain and develop services in data and computationally intensive research that enable Canadian researchers and their international collaborators to generate the greatest possible scientific return on Canada’s investment in telescopes and computational resources. * To coordinate efforts and resources in multi-use applications and services across Canadian groups, by generating integrated grant proposals and funding requests that enable the combination and integration of the science application domain (predominantly located at the universities) and the technical expertise (e.g. at CADC). Such grant proposals and funding request would be directed to any of the Canadian agencies involved in Science, Innovation, Computing and Big Data, such as NSERC, CFI, Canarie or NRC. * Interface on behalf of the astronomy community with Compute Canada to ensure that services meet the astronomy domain specific needs. * Reduce barriers and accelerate adoption of new emerging technologies in Big Data and Computing in the astronomy community. * Share capabilities developed in the astronomy community with other domains. # Membership The consortium membership reflects the necessity of present and future science challenges to integrate those groups and institutions that specialize in the scientific aspects (typically at the universities and research centers and institutes) and the groups that have developed the technical and computer engineering expertise to respond to the needs of science programs. Co…
code repository: https://github.com/orgs/canfar/repositories
author: Person
  given name: Chris
  family name: Pritchet
  name: Chris Pritchet
  role name: Principal Investigator
  affiliation: Organization
    name: University of Victoria
author: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2239-7988
keywords: authenticated
keywords: web service
keywords: retrieval
keywords: distributed
keywords: storage
keywords: processing
keywords: CANFAR
keywords: virtual machine
keywords: condor
license:
  creative work: creativeWork
    name: AGPL-3.0-only
license:
  creative work: creativeWork
    name: GPL-3.0-only
license:
  creative work: creativeWork
    name: MIT

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2239-7988
type: Person
given name: Sébastien
family name: Fabbro
name: Sébastien Fabbro
role name: Maintainer
affiliation: Organization
  name: NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics