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The white paper attachment:LSSTDataManagementWhitePaper.pdf (PDF, January 2009) describes the project and its outcomes in more detail. |
Astronomy - LSST Project
EPCC and the Institute for Astronomy both at the University of Edinburgh worked on creating a prototype Data Acess Centre for LSST at the University of Edinburgh
"The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a proposed ground-based 8.4-meter, 10 square-degree-field telescope that will provide digital imaging of faint astronomical objects across the entire sky, night after night. In a relentless campaign of 15 second exposures, LSST will cover the available sky every three nights, opening a movie-like window on objects that change or move on rapid timescales: exploding supernovae, potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, and distant Kuiper Belt Objects. The superb images from the LSST will also be used to trace billions of remote galaxies and measure the distortions in their shapes produced by lumps of Dark Matter, providing multiple tests of the mysterious Dark Energy." Quoted from the LSST Home Page
This proof-of-concept project installed the software and hardware that will allow in the future the large ammounts of data gathered by the survey to be collated and stored in the UK. This will enhance research possibilites of UK and European based Astronomers.
This work was carried out in conjunction with partners at the National e-Scicence Centre, Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre, The University of Illinois' National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the LSST Corporation.
With our partners, the University of Edinburgh competed in the Supercomputing 2008 Data Challange, and were finalists. For more details see: http://sc08.supercomputing.org/scyourway/conference/view/storc103.html.
The white paper LSSTDataManagementWhitePaper.pdf (PDF, January 2009) describes the project and its outcomes in more detail.
For more information on LSST: http://www.lsst.org
For more information on this project, contact Davy Virdee - d.virdee at epcc.ed.ac.uk
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