Document examples of server URLs
The docs only mention datafind.gw-openscience.org
as a GWDataFind host. Users running on LVK computing clusters will not need to specify a host, as it's set by default (e.g., ldr.ldas.cit
on CIT machines). I've Outside of that, there is no mention of available hosts, at least not that I can easily find. None of these can be used to access non-GWOSC data from an external machine, but the undocumented (as far as I can tell) datafind.ligo.org
handles precisely this. I propose keeping a table in the Sphinx docs listing all of these hosts, where they're accessible from, and what data they have access to. Something like:
Hostname | Accessible by | Data available |
---|---|---|
datafind.gw-openscience.org |
Anybody | GWOSC public data |
datafind.ligo.org |
authenticated LVK members | All data |
ldr.ldas.cit |
CIT cluster users | All data |
... | ... | ... |