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Additional compute resources

Date last updated: 21 Jun 2026 10:12 (MST)

The US-based data and computing infrastructure (the US Data Facility; USDF) is committed to making a portion of its resources available on a competitive basis to all members of the scientific community who hold data rights for LSST (Legacy Survey of Space and Time). These are for projects that require resources above and beyond the default allocations available to all such data right holders through the Rubin Science Platform (RSP; see Data access and analysis).

Available resources will be announced per-semester in the call for proposals.

  • Call for proposals 2026B (TBD)
  • Call for proposals 2026A (deadline Apr 6 2026)

Proposals are evaluated by the Resource Allocation Committee.

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The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science will support Rubin Observatory in its operations phase to carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. They will also provide support for scientific research with the data. During operations, NSF funding is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with NSF, and DOE funding is managed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), under contract by DOE. Rubin Observatory is operated by NSF NOIRLab and SLAC.

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