Session
Technical Session II: Advanced Operations Concepts
Abstract
OPUS is the automated pipeline processing environment developed at the Space Telescope Science Institute to handle the hundreds of exposures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope each day. This environment, however, is sufficiently generic to be applied to projects as diverse as large X-ray data reduction systems to small low-volume programs with an interest in "lights-out" operations. OPUS is briefly described in this paper which discusses its components, its applications, and its distribution. The OPUS baseline system is now available on CD-ROM for other projects to apply to their own pipeline requirements.
OPUS: A Flexible Pipeline Data Processing Environment
OPUS is the automated pipeline processing environment developed at the Space Telescope Science Institute to handle the hundreds of exposures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope each day. This environment, however, is sufficiently generic to be applied to projects as diverse as large X-ray data reduction systems to small low-volume programs with an interest in "lights-out" operations. OPUS is briefly described in this paper which discusses its components, its applications, and its distribution. The OPUS baseline system is now available on CD-ROM for other projects to apply to their own pipeline requirements.
