In order to achieve its goals, the ISDC is developping a complete suite of data analysis programs. There will be one real time scan through the data and one off-line consolidated analysis.
These developments started in 1995 and will extend throughout the life of the project. A first version will be available in 2000, while a more complete version will be available at the time of launch.
The operations will then start as the data analysis are refined. This phase will start at the satellite launch. During the operations, the ISDC will process some 90 kbits of data per second every second of the year. When all the products generated by the ISDC system are included this will make an archive of few Tera bytes per year.
The ISDC scientists are also active in astronomical research. The themes that are atudied deal with subjects for which the INTEGRAL data will allow scientists to make very important progress. The research themes are centered around very compact objects (neutron stars, black holes in our Galaxy, Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars), and around the synthesis of elements in the Universe.
