Mr
Chris Broekema
(ASTRON)
28/07/2011, 08:00
The LOFAR Phase II cluster is finished, marking perhaps the final chapter in the roll-out of LOFAR.
Over the last 6 years or so we've built four incarnations of the LOFAR central processor (and we have become exceedingly efficient at it).
During this time the design of the central processor evolved from a loosly coupled collection of processing boxes to a tightly knit and highly integrated...
Dr
Francois Viallefond
(OBSPM/CNRS)
28/07/2011, 09:50
SDMv2 is an instance of a data model intended to represent the data produced for a broad variety of types of radio-telescopes (ref. presentation given at CALIM 2010).
The model is still under development on several fronts, amongst them a formalization of its theory.
Using the use-case of EMBRACE I'll explain why it has been necessary to go a step forward beyond the standard relational data...
Dr
Anita Richards
(UK ARC Node, JBCA)
28/07/2011, 10:30
e-MERLIN and ALMA are currently operating with 5-15 antennas, up to about 10,000 spectral channels and integration times around one second.
The high resolution is useful for debugging during commissioning but produces data sets up to a TB which take hours to process on a desktop at the high end of what is currently commonly available.
These data volumes are, of course, but a drop in the...
Dr
Anita Richards
(UK ARC Node, JBCA), Dr
Ian Heywood
(University of Oxford)
28/07/2011, 11:00
Demo of user software tools for ALMA other than CASA, i.e. any or all of Portal and Helpdesk system OT including sensitivity calculator and line list OST
