International Consortia in SKA

Peter Baillie9th February 2017

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Who’s who in SKA

• Phase One Consortia work packages• Member countries• SKA Office • CSP teams• SDP Teams

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SKA Phase One Work Packages & Consortia Teams

MID

LOW

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10 member countries100 organisations: 20 countries

Australia (DoI&S)Canada (NRC-HIA)China (MOST)India (DAE)Italy (INAF)Netherlands (NWO)New Zealand (MED)South Africa (DST)Sweden (Chalmers)UK (STFC)

Interested Countries:• France• Germany• Japan• Korea• Malta• Portugal• Spain• Switzerland• USA

Contacts:• Mexico• Brazil• Ireland• Russia

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NZA• AUT University• Catalyst• Compucon NZ• Massey University• Nyriad• Open Parallel• University of Auckland

• Over thirty academics and industry partners in NZ working on SKA design for Central Signal Processor and Science Data Processor

• Focused on computer system design for SKA• One of largest SKA computing groups worldwide• Very strong international collaborations

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SKA HQ: Jodrell Bank, Manchester

SKA HQ

New, €20M building, complete March 2018 State-of-the art facilitiesA nexus for astronomy

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SKAO Organisational Chart

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SKA Organisation: The Directors

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SKA Organisation: Science

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SKA Organisation: Architecture

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SKA Organisation: Project & EngineersAndrea Casson: Head of Project Management GroupAltomese Brown: Project OfficerSusan Nel: Configuration ManagerMaria Gratzia Labate (Telescope Engineer: Low)Luca Stringhetti: Project EngineerMark Bowen: Specialist Engineer: RF/DishAndrea Cremonini: System Engineer: DishesMiles Deegan: HPC SpecialistAdriaan Schutte: Power EngineerDaniel Hayden: Support Engineering (Modelling)

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SKA Organisation: System Engineers

Marco Caiazzo (Senior System Engineer: CSP)Corrie Taljaard: System Engineer: Realiability, Availability, Maintainability (RAMS) and Integrated Logistics Support (ILS)Juande Santander-Vela: System Engineer: SDP and Telescope Manager (TM )Rodrigo Olguin: System Engineer: SaDTAndrea Cremonini: System Engineer: DishesShanqing Li: System Engineer: Modelling

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SKA Organisation: EngineeringProject Managers (EPM)Martin Austin: Engineering Project Manager: Site & InfrastructureAndre van Es: Engineering Project Manager: SaDT & MFAAPhilip Gibbs: Engineering Project Manager: CSP & LFAAMark Harman: Engineering Project Manager: Dishes & WBSPFPeter Hekman: Engineering Project Manager: AIV

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CSP: Mid.CBF team

David Stevens

CSP Project Manager

Philip Gibbs

Engineering Project Manager (CSP & LFAA)

Marco Caiazzo

Systems Engineering CSP

Wallace Turner

Domain Specialist (Signal Processing)

Sonja VrcicLMC Lead

David Loop

Lead CSP Consortium

Will Kamp

Firmware Engineer

Mike Pleasance

Work Package Lead

Michael RupenProject Scientist

Nicolas LoubserSystem Engineer

Zhang Heng

Hardware Engineer

Thushara Gunaratne

Signal Processing Modelling

Brent CarlsonSystem Engineer

Dean Chalmers

Mechanical Engineer

Donna Morgan

Configuration Manager

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CSP: Low.CBF Team

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CSP: Pulsar Search & Pulsar Timing Team

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SDP

• CambridgePaul Alexander (PA) VariousJeremy Coles (JC) Project ManagementVerity Allan (VA) PM & SEBojan Nikolic (BN) PERosie Bolton (RB) Science supportMontse Farreras (MF) Software developmentJohn Taylor (JT) Platforms/SystemsVlad Stolyarov (VS) Software developmentPeter Wortmann (PW) ModellingPeter Braam (PB)HPCS 1 PythonHPCS 2 Systems supportAlex Wynick Clerical supportTBC Project Management support

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SDP

• ASTRON

Ronald Nijboer (RN) PIPChris Broekema (CB) COMP, ARCHGer van Diepen (GvD) PIP, ARCHAgnes Mika (AM) Project Management Yan Grange (YG) DATA, DELIVStefan Wijnholds (SW) PIP

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SDP

• South AfricaJasper Horrell (JH) Various / DELIV-SRC area / Exec FW Simon Ratcliffe (SR) LMC / PrototypingShagita Gounden (SG) LMCLudwig Schwardt IMG/PIP or prototyping EFComm 1 AIV / CommissioningProto 1 Integration / Execution FW ProtoProto 2 Integration / Execution FW ProtoFerdl Graser (FG) SEKechil Kirkham (KK) SE / DELIVBen Opperman (BO) SEUrsula Badenhorst (UB) SELorita Christelis (LC) SEFrancois Malan (FM) Parametric modelling / SEChris Laker (CL) SE PM

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SDP

• International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)

• University of Malta

Markus Dolensky (MD) DATAAndreas Wicenec (AW) DATA/ARCHPM DATAVarious DATA/COMP/LMC

Andrea deMarco (AdM) LMCDenis Cutajar (DC) LMC/ScienceAlessio Magro (AlM) LMCDaniel Muscat (DM) PIP.IMGKristian Zarb Adami (KZA) VariousJosef Borg (JB) PIP/Science

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SDP

• University of Cape TownRob Simmonds (RS) DELIV / OST / ARCHRuss Taylor (RT) DELIV David Aikema (DA) DELIV/PMTBC DELIVAdrianna Pinska (AP) OST (visualisation)Piet Helm (PH) PMStefan Coetzee (SC) DELIV (prototyping support)

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SDP• Oxford

• Manchester University

Wes Armour (WA) HPC, Many-core, Scientific ComputinStef Salvini (SS) PIP,PROT,COMPBen Mort (BM) PIP, PROTFred Dulwich (FD) PIP, PROTRaz Lakhoo (RzL) DATA, DELIVIain Emsley (IE) DATA, DELIV, PROT

Ben Stappers (BS) NIPMike Pearson (MP) PMLina Levin Preston (LLP)Robert Lyon (RL) NIP, PIPJR ? FPGA, Anna Scaife (AS) IMG, PIPChris Skipper (CS) IMG, PIPHayden Rampadarath (HR) IMG, PIP

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SDP• STFC

• CSIRO

Mike Ashworth (MA) PM, HPCBrian McIlwrath (BMc) IP, TangoJames ClarkDavid Terrett (DT) IPDerrick Mackay (DMa) PMMore S/w E if tasks available

Daniel Mitchell RT, ASKAP soft, PIP IMGStephen Ord PIP IMGMark Wieringa PIP IMGJC If AKSAP

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SDP

• NZA

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SDP

• VUWMelanie PIP SCIAaron Reid PIP IMGChris Hollitt PIP SCIMarcus Frean PIP SCISiamak PIP SCI

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SDP

• China Universities

Yongxin Zhu COMP, PROTXueming Si VariousFeng Wang VariousYuan Luo LMCShaohua Wu COMP, PROTMingmin Chi DATA,PIP - COTS

Qiuhong Li DATAPeng Wang DATAWei Wang DATAYitong Wang DATAHaihang You COMP, PIPTing Cao COMP, PIPHuaigang Wu COMPSheng Shi COMP, PIPMing Ni COMPXiaofeng Gao LMCKuanjun Li PIPLinghe Kong COMP, LMCTao An PIPYong Gan COMPYanheng Wei PIPBaoqiang Lao PIPQuan Guo PIPPrashanth Mohan PIPWeiwei Zhang COMP, PIPChuan Luo COMP, PIPRuikai Yang COMP, PIPJiahai Peng COMP, PIPKun Li COMP, PIPHui Deng DATAYing Mei DATA,PIPShoulin Wei PIPCongmin Shi DATAWei Dai DATAQiuping Yang DATAXu Chen COMP

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