The Large Scale Survey Telescope (LSST) is one of the most important future surveys. Its unique design allows it to cover large regions of the sky and obtain images of the faintest objects. After 10 years of operation, it will produce about 80 PB of data in images and catalog data. Petar Zecevic explains AXS, a system built for fast processing and cross-matching of survey catalog data.

Relying on the largest camera sensor ever designed, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will revolutionize astronomy. The LSST data processing pipeline requires computational power of thousands …