This document provides guidelines for groups that are independent from the LSST Project and Operations (i.e. LSST Data Facility) and would like to stand up an independent Data Access Center (IDAC; existing data centers that could serve LSST data products are considered IDACs for purposes of this document). Some IDACs may want to serve only a subset of the LSST data products: this document proposes three portion sizes, from full releases to a “light” catalog without posteriors. Guidelines and requirements for IDACs in terms of data storage, computational resources, dedicated personnel, and user authentication are described, as well as a preliminary assessment of the cost impacts. Some institutions, even those inside the US and Chile, may serve LSST data products locally to their research community. Requirements and responsibilities for such institutional bulk data transfers are also described here. The purpose of this draft document is to serve as a preliminary resource for partner institutions wishing to assess the feasibility of hosting an IDAC.
Note that some tables from DMTN-135 are duplicated here - DMTN-135 was added as a submodeule to facilitate that.
- Live drafts: https://rtn-003.lsst.io
- GitHub: https://github.com/rubin-observatory/rtn-003
This repository includes lsst-texmf as a Git submodule. Clone this repository:
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/rubin-observatory/rtn-003
Compile the PDF:
make
Clean built files:
make clean
A table of the technote's acronyms and their definitions are maintained in the acronyms.tex file, which is committed as part of this repository.
To update the acronyms table in acronyms.tex:
make acronyms.tex
Note: this command requires that this repository was cloned as a submodule.
The acronyms discovery code scans the LaTeX source for probable acronyms. You can ensure that certain strings aren't treated as acronyms by adding them to the skipacronyms.txt file.
The lsst-texmf repository centrally maintains definitions for LSST acronyms. You can also add new acronym definitions, or override the definitions of acronyms, by editing the myacronyms.txt file.
lsst-texmf includes BibTeX files, the lsstdoc class file, and acronym definitions, among other essential tooling for LSST's LaTeX documentation projects.
To update to a newer version of lsst-texmf, you can update the submodule in this repository:
git submodule update --init --recursive
Commit, then push, the updated submodule.