Friday June 21, 2013 - LSST Data Management was awarded a computing resource allocation from the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) in June 2013. This award of 530,000 compute service units and 148 terabytes of storage is a renewal of previous awards that LSST has been granted by XSEDE. It allows DM to continue the larger scale runs associated with the sequence of Data Challenges and large-scale middleware and infrastructure tests that are necessary in preparation for the Construction phase of LSST. This allocation will be in effect for the period from July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014.
Financial support for Rubin Observatory comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Cooperative Support Agreement No. 1202910, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515, and private funding raised by the LSST Corporation. The NSF-funded Rubin Observatory Project Office for construction was established as an operating center under management of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA). The DOE-funded effort to build the the Rubin Observatory LSST Camera (LSSTCam) is managed by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC).
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NSF and DOE will continue to support Rubin Observatory in its Operations phase. They will also provide support for scientific research with LSST data.
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