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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I think that you are exactly on the right track. We have been rewriting our SkyQuery application to minimize the data transfers for exactly the same reason.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">--Alex<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> dal-bounces@ivoa.net [mailto:dal-bounces@ivoa.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>KV Santhilata<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 18, 2015 5:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> dal@ivoa.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Application of distributed caching for Astronomical databases<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">My name is Santhilata. I am a research student in the department of Informatics at King's college London, UK.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> I have attended IVOA-2011 in Pune, India and then I have observed that IVOA is not exactly working in the area of reducing large data transfers. In a typical virtual observatory scenario, a community of like
minded astronomers would query for same data repeatedly. With huge number of columns and millions of rows, when a query needs data from multiple (distributed) databases, a distributed caching mechanism is necessary.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">I am working on the benefits of caching partial queries as data objects from a community cache. This exactly suits for astronomical data as, the typical queries can be moulded as full / partial data objects.
This particular quality enables us to find patterns in the user queries and use those patterns for cache refreshing. I would like to extend this work to develop mobile cache systems.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">I would like to present my work at the forth coming IVOA to get suggestions and further ideas. Please suggest me whether this suits to your agenda.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">- Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Santhilata K.V<o:p></o:p></p>
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