The SDP is a Consortium made up of astrophysicists, engineers and computer scientists mostly work for universities and research institutes.
Our Consortium is currently made up of the following full partners:
- Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC)
- Canadian Universities Consortium
- Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC)
- Chinese Universities Collaboration
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (JUELICH)
- International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)
- Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie (MPIfR)
- Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON)
- New Zealand Alliance (NZA)
- Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- SKA South Africa
- University of Cambridge
- University of Manchester
- University of Oxford
- Victoria University of Wellington
We also have the below institutes as associate partners:
- Centro Nacional de Supercomputación - Barcelona Supercomputing Centre
- Fundacion Centro de Supercomputacion de Castilla y Leon (FCSCL)
- Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA-CSIC)
- Institute of Space Science and Astronomy, University of Malta (ISSA)
- Portuguese ENGAGE SKA Consortium
Some SDP partners have taken out contracts with companies to support the design work they are doing.