The Development of Quicklook Software for the Prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an ongoing project to build the next generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory, which will serve as an open observatory to the astrophysics community. The U.S members of the CTA collaboration have pioneered the development of an innovative prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope (pSCT), which is based on a dual-mirror optical system. We are developing software which will allow for the gamma-ray events detected by the telescope to be displayed in nearly real time, which we refer to as Quicklook software. The telescope currently outputs its data in Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) file format, with only one server being able to access the data output. Our goal is to add the capability to access the data output with more than one server. We will share the status of our work on the Quicklook software, which will include a modification of the pSCT software to create many small FITS files which can be quickly calibrated for viewing, and later combined into a single large file.