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cutout service for DM images
https://portal.nersc.gov/projecta/lsst/dc2/cutout/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Can we have a proper service running on the NERSC science gateway systems ? #2

Open EiffL opened 5 years ago

EiffL commented 5 years ago

Newt is cute but there is overhead in running the cutout script through this API. Could/should we contact NERSC consulting to setup a real server backend. In the official documentation (http://www.nersc.gov/users/data-analytics/science-gateways/), I can see:

The NEWT demos show how to submit a parallel batch job through a simple HTML form. Other programming language and web-toolkit-level building blocks include
  - Full-featured back-end programming environments in the language of your choice (PHP or Python recommended).

and 

Moving beyond simple gateway functions:

If you are building a web gateway to your science at NERSC, please contact us at consult@nersc.gov. We are interested in engagaing directly with science teams so that you can build a gateway that meets your specific needs.

I would love to setup a Python/Flask service for this....

yymao commented 5 years ago

Agreed. If we can set that up I believe we can also use the same setup for the exposure checker. But I want to gauge people's interests in using these services before devoting too much time into it.

(cc @wmwv @kadrlica @SimonKrughoff )