Project: datamanagement
Issue DM-8: Finalize DM mission statement
The proposed mission statement for the LSST Software Stack development: {quote} Enabling LSST science by creating a well documented, state-of-the-art, high-performance, scalable, multi-camera, open source, O/IR survey data processing and analysis system {quote} with the following rationale: * well documented -- as otherwise it will be impossible to maintain or be usable for Level 3 * state-of-the-art -- because the quality of the instrument and needs of the science to be systematic limited require us to develop new algorithms an break new ground in a number of areas * high-performance -- because of the massive amount of data we need to process for a reasonable budget * scalable -- because we need it to run from between a single core (for developers, or Level 3 users) to tens of thousands of cores (for Data Release production) * multi-camera -- because we need to process precursor data for development purposes, and because our as-delivered camera won't be ideal. * open source -- because we want the community and future surveys to benefit from our efforts.
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