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The LSST:UK Science Centre has been contributing to DRP preparations since March 2022. During this period, a team from Edinburgh, Lancaster, RAL, and Sheffield has helped to development of develop a multi-site technology platform that is – at this time – ready to be tested and refined into a processing solution for the Rubin Observatory operational phase.

The Rubin Observatory proposes to use technologies and techniques that have been honed within the high-energy physics community to support distributed data processing for the Large Hadron Collider. In particular, the proposed solution relies heavily on the distributed-data-management system, Rucio; the File Transfer Service; and the PanDA workflow management system.

The Opportunity

LSST:UK has funding for five roles (within Phase C Work Package 4 of the current award). These roles are a mix of full-time and half-time appointments, defined below, which have been developed in collaboration with DRP experts from the Rubin Observatory as well as the US and French Data Facility Liaisons.

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