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Montage Publications and Project Documents

Publications	Downloads
Laity, Anastasia C., Berriman, G. B., Good, J.C., Brieger, L., Moore, R., Williams, R., Deelman, E., Singh, G., Su, M.-H., "An All-Sky 2MASS Mosaic Constructed on the TeraGrid", Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVI, 2006	Paper (PDF - 98 KB) Poster (PowerPoint - 10 MB)
Berriman, G. B., Good, J. C., Laity, A. C., Jacob, J. C., Katz, D. S., Deelman, E., Singh, G., Su, M.-H., Williams, R., Prince, T., "Science Applications of Montage: An Astronomical Image Mosaic Engine", Presentation at IAU XXXVI General Assembly, August 2006	Presentation (PowerPoint - 2.8 MB) Abstract (Word - 53 KB)
Berriman, G. B., Laity, A. C., Good, J. C., Jacob, J. C., Katz, D. S., Deelman, E., Singh, G., Su, M.-H., Prince, T. A., "Montage: The Architecture and Scientific Applications of a National Virtual Observatory Service for Computing Astronomical Image Mosaics", Proceedings of Earth Sciences Technology Conference, 2006	Presentation (PDF - 2.5 MB) Paper (PDF - 3.6 MB)
D. S. Katz, G. B. Berriman, E. Deelman, J. Good, J. C. Jacob, C. Kesselman, A. C. Laity, T. A. Prince, G. Singh, and M.-H. Su, "A Comparison of Two Methods for Building Astronomical Image Mosaics on a Grid", Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing (HPSEC-05), 2005	Paper (PDF - 673 KB) Presentation (PDF - 5.4 MB)
J. C. Jacob, D. S. Katz, G. B. Berriman, J. C. Good, A. C. Laity, E. Deelman, C. Kesselman, G. Sing, M.-H. Su, T. A. Prince, and R. Williams, "Montage: A Grid Portal and Software Toolkit for Science-Grade Astronomical Image Mosaicking", International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, to appear	Paper (PDF - 770 KB)
G. Singh, E. Deelman, G. Mehta, K. Vahi, M.-H. Su, G. B. Berriman, J. Good, J. Jacob, D. S. Katz, A. Lazzarini, K. Blackburn, and S. Koranda, "The Pegasus Portal: Web Based Grid Computing", Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2005), 03/2005	Paper (PDF - 287 KB)
Nathaniel Anagnostou, Bruce Berriman, Ewa Deelman, John Good, Joseph C. Jacob, Daniel S. Katz, Carl Kesselman, Anastasia Laity, Thomas Prince, Gurmeet Singh, Mei-Hui Su, and Roy Williams, "Montage: Experiences in Astronomical Image Mosaicking on the TeraGrid", Proceedings of SC '04, 11/2004	Presentation (PowerPoint - 13.6 MB)
Anastasia Clower Laity, Nate Anagnostou, G. Bruce Berriman, John C. Good, Joseph C. Jacob, Daniel S. Katz, and Thomas Prince, "Montage: An Astronomical Image Mosaic Service for the NVO", Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) XIV, 10/2004	Paper (PDF - 1.5 MB) Focus Session(PowerPoint - 9.3 MB)
G. Bruce Berriman, Ewa Deelman, John Good, Joseph Jacob, Daniel S. Katz, Carl Kesselman, Anastasia Laity, Thomas A. Prince, Gurmeet Singh, and Mei-Hu Su, "Montage: A Grid Enabled Engine for Delivering Custom Science-Grade Mosaics On Demand", SPIE Conference 5487: Astronomical Telescopes, 06/2004	Paper (PDF - 4.1 MB) PDF Presentation (5.3 MB) PowerPoint Presentation (9.5 MB)
Joseph C. Jacob, Daniel S. Katz, Thomas Prince, G. Bruce Berriman, John C. Good, Anastasia C. Laity, Ewa Deelman, Gurmeet Singh, and Mei-Hui Su, "The Montage Architecture for Grid-Enabled Science Processing of Large, Distributed Datasets", Earth Science Technology Conference, 06/2004	Paper (PDF - 2.6 MB) Presentation(PDF - 12.1 MB)
Ewa Deelman, James Blythe, Yolanda Gil, Carl Kesselman, Gaurang Mehta, Sonal Patil, Mei-Hui Su, Karan Vahi, and Miron Livny, "Pegasus: Mapping Scientific Workflows onto the Grid", Across Grids Conference 2004, 01/2004	Paper (PDF - 218 KB)
Attila Bergou, Bruce Berriman, Ewa Deelman, John Good, Joseph C. Jacob, Daniel S. Katz, Carl Kesselman, Anastasia Laity, Thomas Prince, Gurmeet Singh, Mei-Hui Su, and Roy Williams, "Montage: An Astronomical Image Mosaic Service for the National Virtual Observatory", SC03, 11/2003	Handout (PDF - 325 KB) Presentation(PowerPoint - 970 KB)
G. Bruce Berriman, J. C. Good, A. C. Laity, A. Bergou, J. Jacob, D. S. Katz, E. Deelman, C. Kesselman, G. Singh, M-H. Su, and R. Williams, "Montage: A Grid Enabled Image Mosaic Service for the National Virtual Observatory", Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) XIII, 10/2003	Paper (PDF - 90 KB) Presentation (PowerPoint - 1.2 MB)
"Montage: An Astronomical Image Mosaic Service for the National Virtual Observatory", SC02, 11/2002	Handout (PDF - 345 KB)
G. B. Berriman, J. C. Good, D. Curkendall, J. Jacob, D. S. Katz, T. A. Prince, and R. Williams, "Montage: An On-Demand Image Mosaic Service for the NVO", Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) XII, 10/2002	PDF Paper (71 KB) PostScript Paper (45 KB) PowerPoint Presentation (6.1 MB) PDF Presentation (765 KB)
Roy Williams, Bruce Berriman, Ewa Deelman, John Good, Joseph Jacob, Carl Kesselman, Carol Lonsdale, and Seb Oliver, "Multi-Wavelength Image Space: Another Grid-Enabled Science", High Performance Distributed Computing, HPDC-11, 07/2002	Paper (PDF - 218 KB)
G. B. Berriman, David Curkendall, John Good, Joseph Jacob, Daniel S. Katz, Mihseh Kong, Serge Monkewitz, Reagan Moore, Thomas Prince, and Roy Williams, "An Architecture for Access to a Compute Intensive Image Mosaic Service in the NVO", SPIE Conference 4846: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 08/2002	PDF Paper (502 KB) MS Word Paper (2.1 MB) PowerPoint Presentation (5.5 MB) PDF Presentation (952 KB)
Ewa Deelman, Gurmeet Singh, Mei-Hui Su, James Blythe, Yolanda Gil, Carl Kesselman, Gaurang Mehta, Karan Vahi, G. Bruce Berriman, John Good, Anastasia Laity, Joseph C. Jacob, Daniel S. Katz, "Pegasus: a Framework for Mapping Complex Scientific Workflows onto Distributed Systems," Journal of Scientific Programming, v.13(3), pp. 219-237, November 2005	Paper (PDF - 326 KB)
D. S. Katz, N. Anagnostou, G. B. Berriman, E. Deelman, J. Good, J. C. Jacob, C. Kesselman, A. Laity, T. A. Prince, G. Singh, M.-H. Su, and R. Williams, "Astronomical Image Mosaicking on a Grid: Initial Experiences", Engineering the Grid - Status and Perspective, (Editors: B. Di Martino, J. Dongarra, A. Hoisie, L. Yang, and H. Zima,) American Scientific Publishers, 2006	Paper (750 KB)

Software Documents	Date	Downloads
Software Design Specification v2.0	August 30, 2004	MS Word (1518 KB) PDF (1164 KB)
Requirements v2.0	August 30, 2004	MS Word (99 KB) PDF (168 KB)
An Architecture for Processing Image Mosaics with Montage on the Teragrid	April 14, 2004	MS Word (707 KB) PDF (356 KB)
Software Design Specification v1.1	November 25, 2002	MS Word (616 KB) PDF (543 KB)
Milestones v1.0	May 31, 2002	MS Word (43 KB) PDF (26 KB)
Requirements v1.0	May 31, 2002	MS Word (390 KB) PDF (98 KB)
Software Engineering Plan v1.0	May 31, 2002	MS Word (1682 KB) PDF (559 KB)
Test Plan v1.0	October 8, 2002	MS Word (1370 KB) PDF (380 KB)
Performance Documents	Date	Downloads
Montage v2.1 Speedup Metric for Milestone G	August 31, 2004	MS Word (1.1 MB)
Baseline Performance: yourSky Mosaicking Code	August 15, 2002	MS Word (76.5 KB) PDF (105 KB)
Montage Baseline Background Correction	August 15, 2002	MS Word (41 KB) PDF (313 KB)
Annual Reports	Date	Downloads
Second Annual Report	February 13, 2004	Word (454 KB) PDF (222 KB)
First Annual Report	November 25, 2002	Word (536 KB) PDF (484 KB)

If your research uses Montage, please include the following acknowledgement: "This research made use of Montage, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Earth Science Technology Office, Computation Technologies Project, under Cooperative Agreement Number NCC5-626 between NASA and the California Institute of Technology. Montage is maintained by the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive."

The Montage distribution includes an adaptation of the MOPEX algorithm developed at the Spitzer Science Center.