Conveners
SKA Regional Centres (session): Splinter Session - SRC
- Rosie Bolton (SKAO)
SKA Regional Centres (session): SRCSC white paper
- Peter Quinn (ICRAR)
I will provide an overview of the Australian SRC Design Study Program. The program funded by the Australian Government and CSIRO brings together the key partners - CSIRO, ICRAR and Pawsey. In the upcoming 3 years the program will focus on assisting several pilot SKA precursor science projects (ASKAP and MWA) with their software, compute and data needs, as well as working on the SRC system...
Provisioning long-term storage capacity will be a core function of SKA regional centres (SRCs). Commercial Cloud storage accumulates significant costs over time and typical HPC processing scenarios require moving the data products elsewhere for preservation. The same applies to the storage of large test and simulation data sets, which is of immediate interest prior to SKA construction. Later,...
The SKA Regional Centres (SRCs) will be at the core of the exploitation of SKA data, being the place where the science will be done and hence should constitute a collaborative framework where researchers can share their experiments. At the IAA-CSIC we are leading the Spanish effort to host an SRC. We are developing a prototype with a special focus on addressing the challenge of handling SKA...
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the largest radio telescope to be built by astronomers. The key factor that promotes the SKA to achieve milestones in science frontier research is the capability of properly processing the SKA data and converting the data to scientific products. SKA Observatory (SKAO) will only produces pre-calibrated data which are not science-ready for publication....
This talk will present the CADC's current activities related to the development of science platform infrastructure, open software and data sharing standards in astronomy (image cutouts, VO services, interactive work sessions, batch processing, data models, user database services, etc.). These activities are directly influenced by and in support of our participation in the CIRADA project and...
The Horizon 2020 AENEAS project was formed to develop a science-driven functional design for a distributed federated European SKA Regional Centre. Here I will present some of the technical assessment work from the AENEAS project sizing the compute and storage requirements for the European SRC. This exercise used a ground-up approach to determine the volume of both primary and secondary data...
India is one of the countries that will potentially host an SKA regional centre . In preparation to hosting a full fledged SRC, we have proposed to develop a prototype SRC during 2019-2023. This prototype will contain sufficient storage and compute to meet the requirements of processing data from the uGMRT, an SKA pathfinder telescope. I will describe ongoing efforts at developing an end to...
