Hybrid Architecture for Intensive Data Analysis

Abstract

The new Italian GPS receiver for Radio Occultation has been launched from Satish Dhawan Space Center (Sriharikota, India) on board of the Indian Remote Sensing OCEANSAT-2 satellite. The Italian Space Agency has established a set of Italian universities and research centers to develop an infrastructure based on hybrid architecture, that is implemented for the overall processing Radio Occultation chain. The algorithms adopted can be used to characterize the temperature, pressure and humidity. In consideration of great deal of data to process, in case of saturation of physical resources, the system is able to start virtual machines on demand in order to solve temporary peak processing due saturation grid system.