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We are excited to announce a new release of the SciServer online science platform! SciServer v2.0.0 is coming on Thursday, July 26th 2018. The new system has many new features to benefit your research, including: A new dashboard to manage your files and compute environments A new Groups system where you can share files and … Continued

The latest version of SciServer, known as Altair v1.9.4, is now available! This update includes some other behind-the-scenes in the CasJobs admin interface. Please read our Releases & Updates page for information about what was included in this update.

The latest version of SciServer, known as Altair v1.9.3, is now available! This update fixes a bug behind-the-scenes in the CasJobs admin interface. Please read our Releases & Updates page for information about what was included in this update.

The latest version of SciServer, known as Altair v1.9.2, is now available! This update brings several features to SkyServer, in particular to the Plate Browser and Search tools. Please read our Releases & Updates page for information about what was included in this update.

The latest version of SciServer, known as Altair v1.9.1, is now available! This update brings several features to SkyServer. We have restored links to the SDSS interactrive spectrum tool, and have introduced a new SkyQuery-based cross-match tool. We have also introduced a new RStduio image to Compute. Please read our Releases & Updates page for … Continued

The latest version of SciServer, known as Altair v1.9.0, is now available! This update marks the first wide public release of SkyQuery, a web site and service to perform sophisticated Bayesian cross-matching among a variety of astronomical datasets and/or user-uploaded data. Please read our Releases & Updates page for information about what was included in … Continued

On Friday, October 7th, 2016, IPython creator Fernando Pérez spoke at Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES), the organization that hosts and develops SciServer. Pérez’s talk is titled “Interactive Computing and Data Science with the Jupyter Platform.” A recording of the talk is available on the Events page of the IDIES … Continued

Our SciServer Altair v1.8.2 update was released on Tuesday, September 6, 2016. This update to SciServer Altair includes various bugfixes and improvements to SkyServer and CasJobs, as well as adding a new Python image that includes development tools into SciServer Compute. Please read our Releases & Updates page for information about what was included in … Continued

The SciServer Altair v1.8.1 update was released on Friday, July 29, 2016. This update to SciServer Altair includes updates to SkyServer and CasJobs to support the Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s newest data in Data Release 13 (DR13). It also includes updates to the SkyServer, CasJobs, the Explore Tool, and Compute. Please read our Releases & … Continued