LSST data management software development practices and tools

Tim Jenness; Frossie Economou; Krzysztof Findeisen; Fabio Hernandez; Josh Hoblitt; K. Simon Krughoff; K-T Lim; Robert H. Lupton; Fritz Mueller; William O'Mullane; Russell Owen; Stephen R. Pietrowicz; Pim Schellart; Jonathan Sick; John Swinbank; Adam Thornton; James Bosch; Jeffrey Kantor; John K. Parejko; Paul Price; Brian van Klaveren

doi:10.1117/12.2312157

6 July 2018 LSST data management software development practices and tools

Tim Jenness, Frossie Economou, Krzysztof Findeisen, Fabio Hernandez, Josh Hoblitt, K. Simon Krughoff, K-T Lim, Robert H. Lupton, Fritz Mueller, William O'Mullane, Russell Owen, Stephen R. Pietrowicz, Pim Schellart, Jonathan Sick, John Swinbank, Adam Thornton, James Bosch, Jeffrey Kantor, John K. Parejko, Paul Price, Brian van Klaveren

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Proceedings Volume 10707, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy V; 1070709 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312157
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an 8.4m optical survey telescope being constructed on Cerro Pach´on in Chile. The data management system being developed must be able to process the nightly alert data, 20,000 expected transient alerts per minute, in near real time, and construct annual data releases at the petabyte scale. The development team consists of more than 90 people working in six different sites across the US developing an integrated set of software to realize the LSST science goals. In this paper we discuss our agile software development methodology and our API and developer decision making process. We also discuss the software tools that we use for continuous integration and deployment.

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Tim Jenness, Frossie Economou, Krzysztof Findeisen, Fabio Hernandez, Josh Hoblitt, K. Simon Krughoff, K-T Lim, Robert H. Lupton, Fritz Mueller, William O'Mullane, Russell Owen, Stephen R. Pietrowicz, Pim Schellart, Jonathan Sick, John Swinbank, Adam Thornton, James Bosch, Jeffrey Kantor, John K. Parejko, Paul Price, and Brian van Klaveren "LSST data management software development practices and tools", Proc. SPIE 10707, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy V, 1070709 (6 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312157

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