PROGRAM PRELIMINARY SESSIONS

TUESDAY 24th May


Morning - The SKA: from Exabyte to Exaflop

Time Speaker Title
8h30 Registration
8h50 Welcome
9h00 Rui Aguiar Opening and IT Presentation
9h10 Roshene Mccool (SPDO) Demands on connectivity and data in radio astronomy - from VLBI to the SKA (pdf)
9h45 Charles Smith (CSIRO) The SKA from a Communications Infrastructure Perspective (pdf)
10h30 Andrew Faulkner (Camb) Aperture Arrays performance enabled by massive data transport (pdf)
11h00 Coffee-Break and Networking
11h30 Andreas Wicenec (UWA) The SKA Data Flow Systems Design, hatching out of the Egg (pdf)
12h00 Jong-Soo Kim (KASI) Software Correlators for Dish and Sparse Aperture Arrays of the SKA Phase 1: Connectivity and Performance (pdf)
12h30 Phillip Stanley-Marbell (IBM) Performance and Energy-Efficiency: Device Technology, Parallelism, Algorithms, and Beyond (pdf)
Lunch
14h00 Joeri van Leewen (ASTRON) Pulsar processing with APERTIF and the SKA (pdf)
14h35 Stefan Spaelter (NSN) High capacity optical transmission for science applications (pdf)
15h10 Maurizio Gazzola (CISCO) Optical Transport Innovations for High Capacity Networks (pdf)
15h45 Paulo André (IT) Home Access complexity lessons (pdf)
16h15 Coffee-Break and Networking
16h45 Bruce Wallace (SKA-KAT) Ready to Hosts the SKA: MeerKAT Data Transport Network Design - Lessons Learnt (pdf)
17h20 Shaun Amy (CSIRO) The ASKAP Network: Lessons Learnt, Experience Gained (pdf)
17h50 Jarkko Siren (DG-INFSO / EC) Closure(pdf)
19h00 Dinner Transport for dinner




WEDNESDAY 25th May


Morning - Networking R&D and SKA Pathfinders: NEXPReS and VLBI gateways to SKA

Time Speaker Title
9h00 Marco de Vos (ASTRON) Distributed Data centres for the SKA; building on LOFAR experiences (pdf)
9h35 Tony Willis (Cyber-SKA/NRC) Cyber-SKA (pdf)
10h10 Arpad Szomoru NEXPReS: the future of European VLBI (pdf)
10h40 Venkat Mahadevan (Cyber-SKA/UBCO) Data Management, Workflow Processing, and Web Services for CyberSKA (pdf)
11h15 Coffee-Break
11h30 Jose Enrique Ruiz (IAA) Web-services-based workflows to deal with 3D data (pdf)
12h05 Francisco Colomer (IGN) The RAEGE project (pdf)
12h30 Martin Ettl (FESG) Concepts for continuous quality monitoring and station remote control (pdf)
12h55 Alexander Neidhardt (TUM VLBI2010 - Current status of the TWIN radio telescope project at Wettzell, Germany (pdf)

Afternoon

Splinter Meeting 1: NEXPReS EVN-NREN, internal meeting (open)
NSI Intro
GEANT
NRENs:
FCCN - host / GARR / FUNET / JANET / break / NORDUNET / PIONER / RedIRIS / SUNET / SURFnet
Splinter Meeting 2: SKA Signal Transport and Networking Internal Review (closed)




THURSDAY 26th May


Morning

Splinter Meeting 3: NEXPReS WP7 meeting (closed)
Splinter Meeting 4: NEXPReS WP8 meeting (closed)

 


















































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