IRIS: Expanding Data Lake Access Services at CASU / IRIS hardware allocation grant for FY19 for IoA, Cambridge University
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Institute of Astronomy
Abstract
CASU has had an initial resource allocation through IRIS to deploy science survey team user access to CASU held digital sky survey data. The machinery through IRIS is hosted at the University of Cambridge's West Cambridge Data Centre. The initial deployment allows authenticated access to any IRIS user to public optical imaging data.
This proposal will allow for a ramp up of the service to provide access to all public VISTA, VST and UKIRT imaging and associated catalogues data available at CASU, allowing dynamic and flexible user access to both the pixels and objects. The interface is to users is provided via python notebook servers, and allows programmatic access to the data. A range of example python notebooks are provided to enable an 'on-ramp' for non expert users, providing for instance access to an image cut out service. We will develop the documentation and software tools to make accessing and working with the data easier.
Refer to the Business Case for eInfrastructure for the exploitation of the UK National Facilities and STFC Frontier Science programme
This proposal will allow for a ramp up of the service to provide access to all public VISTA, VST and UKIRT imaging and associated catalogues data available at CASU, allowing dynamic and flexible user access to both the pixels and objects. The interface is to users is provided via python notebook servers, and allows programmatic access to the data. A range of example python notebooks are provided to enable an 'on-ramp' for non expert users, providing for instance access to an image cut out service. We will develop the documentation and software tools to make accessing and working with the data easier.
Refer to the Business Case for eInfrastructure for the exploitation of the UK National Facilities and STFC Frontier Science programme
Planned Impact
This will benefit the IRIS consortium and therefore will impact all STFC scientists using the eInfrastructure supported by IRIS
The impact is fully described in the Business Case for eInfrastructure for the exploitation of the UK National Facilities and STFC Frontier Science programme.
In summary the e-Infrastructure, including software infrastructure, will
- Provide badly needed additional resources for all STFC data intensive science communities undertaking science supported by PPAN and the National Facilities, thus enabling more science output.
- Address the STFC need to harmonise computing across STFC as called for by its Computing Strategy.
- Pilot engagement with UK industry in the provision of cloud based resources.
- Aid STFC in its need to move towards a National e-Infrastructure for research across Research Councils.
The impact is fully described in the Business Case for eInfrastructure for the exploitation of the UK National Facilities and STFC Frontier Science programme.
In summary the e-Infrastructure, including software infrastructure, will
- Provide badly needed additional resources for all STFC data intensive science communities undertaking science supported by PPAN and the National Facilities, thus enabling more science output.
- Address the STFC need to harmonise computing across STFC as called for by its Computing Strategy.
- Pilot engagement with UK industry in the provision of cloud based resources.
- Aid STFC in its need to move towards a National e-Infrastructure for research across Research Councils.
Organisations
Publications
Hermosa Muñoz L
(2020)
Kinematic and metallicity properties of the Aquarius dwarf galaxy from FORS2 MXU spectroscopy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Chornay N
(2020)
Searching for central stars of planetary nebulae in Gaia DR2
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Kumari N
(2020)
The effect of diffuse background on the spatially-resolved Schmidt relation in nearby spiral galaxies
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Theler R
(2020)
The chemical evolution of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Sextans
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lucchesi R
(2020)
Homogeneity in the early chemical evolution of the Sextans dwarf spheroidal galaxy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Higgs C
(2021)
Solo dwarfs II: the stellar structure of isolated Local Group dwarf galaxies
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society