Radio Astronomy Data-processing Inter Operability (RADIO) Workshops
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SKAO HQ
This is a series of regular workshops to drive alignment of radio astronomy data processing systems amongst large radio astronomy facilities.
The current state is that many facilities are working on updating their data processing systems to deal with the needs of new telescopes and upgrades whose requirements extend beyond the limited parallelisation capabilities of the existing community software.
The focus of the workshops will be the development of working systems that scale to the immediate needs of the facilities (e.g. Continuum Imaging at AA* scale for SKAO, and Cube Imaging at WSU scale for ALMA), rather than research on new algorithms of low technical readiness level.
Agenda
Tuesday 27 Jan 2026
Time | Who | Subject |
|---|---|---|
09:00-09:15 | Nick | Welcome, safety facilities, etc |
09:15-09:30 | Nick | Workshop introduction |
09:30-10:00 | Jess and/or Phil? | Top level direction |
10:00-11:00 | Jeff Kern | NOAO/Alma status |
11:00-11:30 | Break | |
11:30-12:30 | Tyrone van Bella | SARAO/MeerKAT status |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
13:30-14:30 | John Swinbank | ASTRON/LOFAR status |
14:30-15:30 | Steve Ord | CSIRO/ASKAP status |
15:30-16:00 | Break | |
16:00-17:00 | Nick, Peter Wortmann? | SKAO/SKA status |
17:00-17:30 | Nick, Jeff | Summary of main themes. Topics for Day 2. |
Wednesday 28 Jan 2026
Selection of topics from Day 1
Time | Who | Subject |
|---|---|---|
09:00-09:30 | Nick, Jeff | Summary of themes. Order of discussion. |
09:30-10:30 | Theme 1: (e.g. Calibration: Fidelity, performance) | |
10:30-11:00 | Break | |
10:30-11:30 | Theme 2: (e.g. Imaging: Continuum, Spectral line, direction dependent effects) | |
11:30-12:30 | Theme 3: (e.g. Hardware: optimisation and profiling) | |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
13:30-14:30 | Theme 4: (e.g. MSv4: issues in use, potential developments, alternatives) | |
14:30-15:30 | Theme 5: (e.g. Data management: processing locality, tiering, delivery, long term storage, etc.) | |
15:30-16:00 | Break | |
16:00-17:00 | Theme 6: (e.g. Community engagement, communication) | |
17:00-17:30 | Nick, Jeff | Summary. Topics for Day 3. |
Thursday 29 Jan 2026
Time | Who | Subject |
|---|---|---|
09:00-09:30 | Nick, Jeff | Summary of themes. Order of discussion. |
09:30-10:30 | ||
10:30-11:00 | Break | |
10:30-11:30 | ||
11:30-12:30 | ||
12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
13:30-14:30 | ||
14:30-15:30 | ||
15:30-16:00 | Break | |
16:00-17:00 | Close. |
