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
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