CDC-FI

Cosmology Data Center Finland

Euclid is a wide-field space telescope for which Finland provides a data center. The data center will soon receive large volumes of data from space, which requires enlargement and renewal of this data center. Finland has also participated in the early preparation of LISA, the first gravitational wave observatory in space, by operating a pilot LISA data processing center. 

The aim of the Cosmology Data Center Finland is to utilise the existing Euclid data center and to provide a seed for a new open data center that would allow combining data from several cosmology missions.

The data from Euclid will help answer the mystery of the accelerating expansion of the universe. LISA will not only provide a complementary measure of the expansion of the universe but will also look deeper into the early universe than has been possible with optical or radio telescopes. The data from these missions will have a huge impact on cosmology and astrophysics, and will form a basis for future research in these fields. 

The Cosmology Data Center hardware will be situated at the CSC Kajaani data center. CSC will operate the physical hardware and a system that allows creation of virtual machines on which the mission-specific data centers operate. CSC will take care of the procurement of the hardware, installation and testing of the hardware, setting up the fundamental layers of the software environment, deployment of the cloud environment, and tweaking of the set-up. Together with Aalto University, CSC will help to optimize the system administration of the Euclid and LISA parts within the data center. 

This project has received funding from the Research Council of Finland​​​​​​​ under funding decision No 358628.