Computing for SKA Colloquium 2017

Welcome to Computing for SKA (C4SKA) Colloquium
9 – 10 February 2017
To be held in room WG404 in the Sir Paul Reeves Building (WG), AUT City Campus

The Organising Committee warmly invites you to this special event - the annual Colloquium hosted by the New Zealand SKA Alliance in conjunction with the School for Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences at AUT.

The Colloquium brings together industry and academics working on the design of computer systems for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - the mega science project of the 21st century to build the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope. This is an opportunity to hear from the experts involved in the design phase and learn about the range of solutions developed to meet the unprecedented computing demands from SKA and similar industries over the next ten years.

Details

Programme

This will follow a similar format to our past successful conferences as the SKA Project builds on the momentum of technological solutions to High Performance data intensive computing and detailed designs taking shape during 2017.

This is an opportunity to hear from some of the leading researchers on the current range of solutions designed to meet the unprecedented computing demands generated by the SKA over the next decade.

Preliminary Programme

THURSDAY 9 February

08.45

Registration - outside WG404

Session Chair: Andrew Ensor

09.30

Opening and Welcome

09.40

Phil Crosby, SKA Office - High Tech Mega Project – an "Ockham's Razor" approach

10.00

Carole Jackson, ICRAR-Curtin - SKA developments from the WA perspective

10.20

Sergei Gulyaev, AUT - Science for SKA – New Zealand perspectives

10.40

TEA BREAK (30 min)

Session Chair: Nicolas Erdody

11.10

Max Voronkov, CSIRO - Lessons from ASKAP for early SKA

11.30

Peter Baillie, AUT - International Consortia in SKA

11.50

TN Chan, Compucon - SKA compute 50 years

12.10

Will Kamp, AUT - CSP Mid firmly in place

12.30

LUNCH (60 min)

Session Chair: Carole Jackson

1.30

John Bunton, CSIRO - The SKA LOW correlator design challenges

1.50

David Wilson, AUT - Modelling the Signal Path for SKA

2.10

Nicolas Pradel, AUT - From Science Aims to building a telescope

2.30

Anthony Griffin, AUT - SDP Imaging Pipeline Precision Modelling

2.50

TEA BREAK (30 min)

Session Chair: TN Chan

3.20

Nicolas Erdody, Open Parallel - Towards SKA1 Construction 2018 Tender

3.40

Piers Harding, Catalyst IT - Middleware and commodity computing

4.00

Stepan Lapshev, Massey University - Multiple Accumulator CMAC and IC Design

4.20

Rezaul Hasan, Massey University - Importance of Analog in Digital World and Big Data

4.40

General discussions

5.00

CLOSE DAY ONE

7.00

DINNER: Vivace Restaurant, 50 High Street

FRIDAY 10 February

Session Chair: Sergei Gulyaev

10:00

Hon Paul Goldsmith - Ministerial Address

10.20

Andrew Ensor, AUT - New Zealand SKA Alliance advances

10.40

John Bancroft, AUT - Applications for SKA-derived big data technologies

11.00

TEA BREAK (30 min)

Session Chair: Anthony Griffin

11.30

Willem van Straten, AUT - State-of-the-art in pulsar search and pulsar timing

11.50

Vivek Krishnan, Swinburne - Testing General Relativity with the SKA

12.10

Irene Moser, Swinburne - Automated scheduling for telescope arrays

12.30

Oliver Sinnen, University of Auckland - Acceleration of Pulsar Search on FPGA OpenCL

12.50

LUNCH (50 min)

Session Chair: John Bancroft

1.40

Stuart Weston, AUT - Development of automated approach for cross-matching sky surveys

2.00

Neville Smith, Atos - Update on HPC technology for science

2.20

Michael Coleman, Oracle - Sun Sparc update

2.40

Stephen Moore, HPE - Technology update

3.00

CLOSE DAY TWO

3.15

Bus to Ransom Wines and AUT's Radio Astronomical Observatory, Warkworth

7.00

Bus arrival back in CBD - City Campus

Participants

Peter Baillie HPC Research Lab, AUT

John Bancroft Research and Innovation Office, AUT

Roger Barraud True Group

Mario Becroft True Group

John Bunton CSIRO

Christian Busquiel Sanz AUT

Dave Cameron True Group

Emmanuel Casseau University of Rennes

TN Chan Compucon New Zealand

Michael Coleman Oracle Corporation

Phil Crosby SKA Organisation

Dafydd Davies Tertiary Education Commission

Martin Ehrenstein EconoCyclist

Andrew Ensor HPC Research Lab, AUT

Nicolas Erdody Open Parallel

Dave Fielder Compucon New Zealand

Anthony Griffin HPC Research Lab, AUT

Sergei Gulyaev IRASR, AUT

Piers Harding Catalyst IT Ltd

Rezaul Hasan Massey University

Song Huang Compucon New Zealand

Carole Jackson ICRAR-Curtin

Will Kamp HPC Research Lab, AUT

Frane Karaman Artilect

Stepan Lapshev Massey University

Stephen Moore Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Irene Moser Swinburne University of Technology

Tim Natusch IRASR, AUT

Nicolas Pradel HPC Research Lab, AUT

Simon Rae Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

Oliver Sinnen University of Auckland

Neville Smith Atos Information Technology

Willem van Straten IRASR, AUT

Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan Swinburne University of Technology

Maxim Voronkov CSIRO

Haomiao Wang University of Auckland

Stuart Weston IRASR, AUT

David Wilson, SECMS, AUT

Stefan Wong Compucon New Zealand

Organising Committees

Peter Baillie - AUT\
TN Chan - Compucon
John Bancroft - AUT
Andrew Ensor – AUT (Co-chair)\
Nicolás Erdödy - Open Parallel Ltd
Anthony Griffin - AUT
Sergei Gulyaev – AUT (Co-chair)
Patricia Sallis - AUT (Admin)