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  • Data Science
  • Astronomy
  • Distributed Computing

Background:

  • Massive datasets (hundreds of Gigabytes) necessitate distributed computing for knowledge extraction.
  • Classical algorithms require adaptation for parallel processing to handle Big Data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a parallel, scalable, and optimized Self-Organized Map (SOM) design.
  • To analyze massive data from the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft.
  • To enable extrapolation of the methodology to other domains.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a distributed Self-Organized Map (SOM) implementation.
  • Performance comparison of sequential vs. distributed SOMs using Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark.
  • Analysis of proposed optimizations for distributed SOMs.

Main Results:

  • The distributed SOM design demonstrates enhanced performance for Big Data analysis.
  • Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark implementations show significant scalability.
  • Optimizations lead to efficient processing of large-scale datasets.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed distributed SOM is effective for analyzing massive astronomical data.
  • The methodology is adaptable to various Big Data domains.
  • A domain-specific visualization tool aids in exploring astronomical SOMs.