Nabil Freij
Nabil Freij is working as Research Software Engineer for Bay Area Environmental Research Institute supporting several NASA missions at Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory.
Before this, he was a Software Engineer at the The Institute for Environmental Analytics based at the University of Reading focused on providing customized weather and climate data to growers and farmers.
Before his pivot to Software Engineering, he was a research scientist at Universitat de les Illes Balears working on coronal heating and MHD waves.
Sessions
Over the last decade, the SunPy ecosystem, a Python solar data analysis environment, has evolved organically to serve the needs of scientists analyzing solar physics data, mostly on desktop and laptop computers. However, modern solar observatories are producing data volumes in the tens of petabytes, necessitating the need for parallelized and out-of-core computation. HelioCloud is a cloud computing environment tailored for heliophysics research and colocated with many terabytes of solar physics data. In this talk, we will show how the SunPy ecosystem, combined with Dask on HelioCloud, can be used to efficiently process high-resolution solar data.