Programme Computing for SKA Colloquium

9.30am

Registration

10.00am

Opening and welcome

10.05am

Nick Rees, SKA Office – SKA Software Management

10.45am

TEA BREAK (30 min)

11.15am

Will Kamp, AUT HPCRL – NRC Canada: Visibility into CSP and SDP Data Transport

11.35am

Andrew Ensor, AUT HPCRL – Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) for Data Movement in the SKA

11.55am

Seth Hall, AUT HPCRL – Gain Calibration and the Imaging Pipeline in the SKA

12.15pm

LUNCH (60 min)

1.15pm

Adam Campbell, AUT HPCRL – GPU-Accelerated Visibility Prediction: DFT vs. Degridding

1.35pm

Mingshuang Wu, Compucon – SDP Imaging Pipeline Benchmarking

1.55pm

Nicolas Monnier, Centrale Supelec, France - Parallelization of DDFacet on distributed HPC System

2.15pm

TEA BREAK (30 min)

2.45pm

TN Chan, Compucon – New Technologies for SDP Computing

3.05pm

Piers Harding - Universal Computing for Science

3.25pm

Discussion

4.00pm

CLOSE DAY

6.30pm

DINNER at Four Points by Sheraton, 396 Queen Street. Main entrance 110 Mayoral Drive.

9.30am

Door open

10.00am

Sergei Gulyaev, AUT IRASR – Early Science with SKA Pathfinders and Precursors

10.45am

TEA BREAK (30 min)

11.15am

Caterina Tiburzi, ASTRON – Low-Frequency Pulsar Science

11.35am

Willem van Straten, AUT IRASR – Polyphase Filterbank Inversion for Pulsar Timing

11.55am

Oliver Sinnen, University of Auckland – Fresnel Integrals in Pulsar Search with FPGA OpenCL

12.15pm

LUNCH (60 min)

1.15pm

Anthony Griffin, AUT HPCRL and Afiq Abdul Hamid, AUT IRASR - Detecting RFI in Pulsar Profiles using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)

1.35pm

Stuart Weston, AUT IRASR – LRPY Algorithms for Multi-wavelength Cross Identification of Celestial Objects

1.55pm

Chris Clarkson, ATOS Australia - SKA Project:  Toward Long Term Collaboration

2.15pm

TEA BREAK (30 min)

2.45pm

Jean-Francois Nezan, IETR, France - How Programming Models can Manage the Problem of Scaling

3.05pm

Discussion

4.00pm

CLOSE DAY