Radio Astronomy Data-processing Inter Operability (RADIO) Workshops

27 Jan 2026, 09:00 → 29 Jan 2026, 17:30 UTC

66 (SKAO HQ)

Rhian Beer

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.

 

Tuesday, 27 January

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome, safety, facilities etc

Convener: Nick Rees (SKAO)

09:15 → 09:30 Workshop Introduction

Convener: Nick Rees (SKAO)

09:30 → 10:00 Top level direction

Convener: Phil Diamond (SKAO)

10:00 → 11:00 NOAO/Alma status

Convener: Dr Jeff Kern (NRAO)

11:00 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 SARAO/MeerKAT status

Convener: Tyrone van Balla (SARAO)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 ASTRON/LOFAR status

Convener: Dr John Swinbank (ASTRON)

14:30 → 15:30 CSIRO/ASKAP status

Convener: Dr Stephen Ord (CSIRO)

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:00 SKAO/SKA status

Conveners: Nicholas Rees (SKAO), Peter Wortmann (SKAO)

17:00 → 17:30 Summary of main themes. Topics for Day 2.

Conveners: Dr Jeff Kern (SKAO), Nick Rees (SKAO)

Wednesday, 28 January

09:00 → 09:10 Summary of themes. Order of discussion

Conveners: Jeff Kern (NRAO), Nicholas Rees (SKAO)

09:15 → 10:15 Theme 1: (e.g. Calibration: Fidelity, performance)

10:15 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 11:45 Theme 2: (e.g. Imaging: Continuum, Spectral line, direction dependent effects)

11:45 → 12:45 Theme 3: (e.g. Hardware: optimisation and profiling)

12:45 → 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 Summary. Topics for Day 3.

Conveners: Jeff Kern, Nick Rees (SKAO)

Thursday, 29 January

09:00 → 09:30 Summary of themes. Order of discussion

Conveners: Dr Jeff Kern (NRAO), Nicholas Rees (SKAO)

09:30 → 10:30 Slot 1

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:00 Slot 2

12:00 → 13:00 Slot 3

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Slot 4

15:00 → 15:30 Break

15:30 → 16:30 Slot 5

16:30 → 17:00 Close