The new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has announced a three-year agreement with Google to host data from astronomy observations in the cloud. Rubin and Google said that the collaboration, made public Dec. 9, would bring in a new generation of “large-scale scientific computing” projects that can be shared worldwide with Internet services. Google will host Rubin’s Interim Data Facility (IDF) that will collect preliminary data until the observatory becomes fully operational in 2023. The… Source link
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