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descut services

This repository contains most of the code needed to run the DES cutout services which allows to create cutouts from coadd images as well as single epoch images.

Software description

There are several software and packages used both in the front-end and back-end.

Front-end

  • We use tornado as a Web Server
  • We use Polymer for web pages design and interfaces
  • We use Flower to monitor jobs submitted

Back-end

  • We use Redis for storing the jobs and user information and broker for celery
  • We use MongoDB for storing information regarding the images
  • We use Oracle DB which is the default DES DB
  • We use Celery as a queue and job manager
  • Many other python tools (easyaccess, astropy, pandas, , fitsio, and others)

Everything is containerized and deployed using Docker.