Towards a service-oriented platform for exoplanets discovery

Abstract

The work in this paper presents the architecture of the serviceoriented platform for exoplanets (also known as extrasolar planets) discovery. It is the result of an interdisciplinary cooperation of the three partners with experience in the fields of discovery of extrasolar planets, systems built according to the Service Oriented Architecture paradigm and parallel data processing on graphics cards. The platform architecture presents the integration of distributed, autonomous software components specializing in making observations of space (robotic telescopes), transport of large data over computer networks, distributed data processing on graphics cards, and data visualization. Components offer their functionality through web service interfaces that are invoked in the process coordinated by the Process Manager.