Youpi, a Web-based Astronomical Image Processing Pipeline

TL;DR

Youpi is a user-friendly web application that streamlines astronomical image data reduction, management, and collaboration using open source tools and a web-based interface, facilitating teamwork and efficient processing of FITS images.

Contribution

It introduces a portable, web-based pipeline integrating existing open source tools for astronomical data reduction and collaborative data management.

Findings

Enables real-time job management on clusters.

Facilitates teamwork through fine-grain sharing.

Simplifies data organization and processing workflow.

Abstract

Youpi stands for "YOUpi is your processing PIpeline". It is a portable, easy to use web application providing high level functionalities to perform data reduction on scientific FITS images. It is built on top of open source processing tools that are released to the community by Terapix, in order to organize your data on a computer cluster, to manage your processing jobs in real time and to facilitate teamwork by allowing fine-grain sharing of results and data. On the server side, Youpi is written in the Python programming language and uses the Django web framework. On the client side, Ajax techniques are used along with the Prototype and script.aculo.us Javascript librairies.