Enabling dark energy survey science analysis with simulations on XSEDE resources

Upcoming wide-area sky surveys offer the power to test the source of cosmic acceleration by placing extremely precise constraints on existing cosmological model parameters. These observational surveys will employ multiple tests based on statistical signatures of galaxies and larger-scale structures such as clusters of galaxies. Simulations of large-scale structure provide the means to maximize the power of sky survey tests by characterizing key sources of systematic uncertainties. We describe an XSEDE program to produce multiple synthetic sky surveys of galaxies and large-scale cosmic structure in support of science analysis for the Dark Energy Survey. We explain our Airavata-enabled methods and report extensions to our workflow processing over the last year. We highlight science analysis focused on counts of clusters of galaxies.