“I have used the new Gemini Observatory Archive to retrieve data for our
LP-3 and I found it very easy to use and fast so I don’t anticipate any problems. I
am grateful to the team at Gemini that has been working on it. “
— Catherine Huitson, PI of GN-2015B-LP-3
To solve all these problems, I initiated the
FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) storage project and wrote a software package
that would scan through the FITS files on a file
system and record details of them in a database. A simple web interface presented concise summaries of the data files. Gemini also
bought some modern LTO4 (high capacity
and performance) tape drives, and wrote software to record (in the database) file FWF