The Need for Regional Centres in Data Intensive Research (+SKA regional data centre discussion)

Friday 9 Feb 2018, 10:30 → 15:00 Asia/Bangkok

Ursa Major (Meeting Room1) (AstroPark)

This week we are organizing the Australian DFAT NARIT-ICRAR HPC and Data Intensive Astronomy Workshop at the AstroPark

As part of the week-long activity, on Friday Feb. 9th, there will be a session exploring the SKA Regional data centre and how it may provide a unique opportunity for NARIT and Thailand to participate in this major international Astronomical experiment in terms of science and technological development. 

ICRAR (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research) is one of the main organization who is leading the preparation of the Science Data Processing of the SKA. 

We will start off with a seminar talk with Q&A session (10:30am-12:00pm) to be given by

Markus Dolensky, Technical Lead of the Data Intensive Astronomy unit from ICRAR, University of Western Australia.

More discussions will be continued in the afternoon (01:30pm-03:00pm), all who are interested are welcome to join.

 

   

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10:30 → 12:00 The Need for Regional Centres in Data Intensive Research

Future observatories like SKA will rely on regional centres to turn calibrated data products into advanced data products, like spectra or science grade catalogues. The data volume of surveys and also the size of individual observatory-provided data products is becoming too large to be served via the traditional download model. Data-centric processing that minimises data movement is key. Distributed science teams will need new tools, methods, frameworks and algorithms to maximise scientific productivity.

Speaker: Mr Markus Dolensky (ICRAR, UWA)

2018-02 RegionalCentres.pdf