LSST Data Management
The LSST data management system must
- reliably process unprecedented data volumes
- ensure consistent data quality without manual intervention
- meet stringent near-real-time transient alerting deadlines
- accommodate both scientific and computing technology evolution over at least a decade, and
- serve the LSST data products to a diverse community of users located across multiple continents.
The LSST data management system is on the surface composed of a series of processing pipelines, a large archive of images, and a number of catalogs containing the detected astronomical sources and resolved astronomical objects. Underneath these are the software middleware and technology infrastructure that permit the visible elements to work securely and reliably. The processing and data are distributed across multiple computing centers on the observatory mountaintop, in a base facility near the observatory, and at archive centers and data centers throughout the United States.
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