32G pixels Widefield, Sir?

[SnakeyJ]

Might require a lot of mounting, a massive illuminated field and I daresay

The filters might be a little pricey.....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/01/all_pixels_go_worlds_biggest_camera_gets_final_signoff/

[ronin]

It would take a while to process any images on my laptop, could need a bit more memory added.

Can DSS stack 3.2Gb exposures ?

[SnakeyJ]

Are there any wide field junkies out there looking to retire/rehome their Atik 1100s?    

Though sticking a 3.5 tonne camera on the back of your Tec140 is going to require serious adaptors and present a few mounting and balance challenges!

[SnakeyJ]

Whoops - Only 3.2Gpix, my bad!

There's  a better article and details of the camera at the SLAC website

Worth having a look at their FOV simulation - here's a 25% scale to keep things manageable:

this looks like 201 x 16Mpix sensors, though I can't find any info on what the sensors may be.

[JamesF]

Olly's probably got one on order already

James

[MattJenko]

might have to upgrade to an NEQ6 rather than my HEQ5 for this.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very impressive, even though it is "only" 3.2Gpixel, rather than 32. I might contact these guys at some point to see if I can process those data with the new software we have been developing (9Gpixel is the largest image to date, so 3.2 is easy )

[SnakeyJ]

Very impressive, even though it is "only" 3.2Gpixel, rather than 32. I might contact these guys at some point to see if I can process those data with the new software we have been developing (9Gpixel is the largest image to date, so 3.2 is easy )

The LSST press release states that they will make the data publicly available, though not sure you could provide this publicly at full/native resolution (estimated 6 Petabytes of data/year).     Not to worried as  it would certainly be beyond the RAM and processing capabilities of my own home/office PCs.    Assuming they were imaging at 16 bits depth, the RAW bitmaps would be 51GB each!

What market are you developing this image processing software - is it scientific or medical?

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

The LSST press release states that they will make the data publicly available, though not sure you could provide this publicly at full/native resolution (estimated 6 Petabytes of data/year).     Not to worried as  it would certainly be beyond the RAM and processing capabilities of my own home/office PCs.    Assuming they were imaging at 16 bits depth, the RAW bitmaps would be 51GB each!

What market are you developing this image processing software - is it scientific or medical?

Theis is pure research work, but the application domains we mainly do research for are astronomy, remote sensing, medical imaging. Our current main machine is a 64 core 512GB RAM 2U rack server. It can compute things at quite a clip. Once I did a multiscale analysis of a satellite image of Sana'a in Yemen in 11 seconds, and remarked to myself that that was just a small image (just 876 Mpixel ). Object hunting in large astronomical images is what I would like to do with the above images

[SnakeyJ]

Theis is pure research work, but the application domains we mainly do research for are astronomy, remote sensing, medical imaging. Our current main machine is a 64 core 512GB RAM 2U rack server. It can compute things at quite a clip. Once I did a multiscale analysis of a satellite image of Sana'a in Yemen in 11 seconds, and remarked to myself that that was just a small image (just 876 Mpixel ). Object hunting in large astronomical images is what I would like to do with the above images

I knew you were keen on insane solar mosaics (76 panes?) and deconvolution software, but now realise this was purely for entertainment   Sounds a fantastic project to be involved in, with huge application for sifting the vast quantities of data that the LSST might give for Comets, NEO's and SNs.     The server specs are pretty insane and would need to be four socket for intel, which would cost around £20K, perhaps cheaper for AMDs.      Excluding the noise and thermal output, the price is still a little keen for my home workstation!

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

I knew you were keen on insane solar mosaics (76 panes?) and deconvolution software, but now realise this was purely for entertainment   Sounds a fantastic project to be involved in, with huge application for sifting the vast quantities of data that the LSST might give for Comets, NEO's and SNs.     The server specs are pretty insane and would need to be four socket for intel, which would cost around £20K, perhaps cheaper for AMDs.      Excluding the noise and thermal output, the price is still a little keen for my home workstation!

It is a 4 socket Opteron system with 16 cores to each chip. We got it at a good discount because we and two other groups ordered three units together. Wouldn't want it sitting on my desktop

[pyrasanth]

Opteron server- you should have gone Intel.......the debate rages (I'm such a trouble maker)