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CONSORTIUM MEMBER: Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC)

CONTACT: David Schade

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: Canadian Universities Consortium

CONTACT: Russ Taylor

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: Centre for High Performance Computing

CONTACT: Happy Sithole

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: Centro Nacional de Supercomputación - Barcelona Supercomputing Center

CONTACT: Rosa M. Badia

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: Chinese Universities Collaboration

CONTACT: Guihai Chen

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

CONTACT: Ben Humphreys

 

 CONSORTIUM MEMBER: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH: JUELICH

CONTACT: Thomas Lippert

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: Fundación Centro de Supercomputación de Castilla y León

CONTACT: Carlos Redondo

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: Institute of Space Science and Astronomy (ISSA)

CONTACT: Kristian Zarb Adami

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC

CONTACT: Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)

CONTACT: Robyn Owens

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR)

CONTACT: Michael Kramer

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, ASTRON

CONTACT: Gert Kruithof

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: New Zealand Alliance

CONTACT: Andrew Ensor

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: Pawsey Supercomputing Centre

CONTACT: David Schibeci

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: Portuguese ENGAGE SKA Consortium

CONTACT: Domingos Barbosa

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: Science and Technology Facilities Council

CONTACT: Luke Mason

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: SKA South Africa

CONTACT: Jasper Horrell

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: University of Cambridge

CONTACT: Paul Alexander

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: University of Manchester

CONTACT: Ben Stappers

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: University of Oxford

CONTACT: David De Roure

 

CONSORTIUM MEMBER: Victoria University of Wellington

CONTACT: Melanie Johnston-Hollitt

Recent news

Lovell telescope behind new SKA HQ building on 17 Jan 2019

At the end of October 2018 the SKA SDP Consortium submitted its Critical Design Review (CDR) documentation pack. Contained in this were the formal deliverables of the design consortium covering all aspects of the SDP architecture, system engineering and programmatics (the documents are available here).  The documents were received by the CDR reviewers (consisting of 3 external members and 15 internal to SKAO) who proceeded to generate clarification questions, requests and notes in the form of observations (called OARs after the Observation Action Register approach commonly used for them). Where possible these were addressed via communication exchanges in JIRA OAR tickets.

From 15th to 19th January 2019 members of the SDP Consortium then visited the SKAO HQ at Jodrell Bank (see figure 1), where direct discussions took place in the new SKAO Council Chamber (see figure 2), to further explore the architecture and identify risks as part of an SEI Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM).

SDP1

At the end of October the SDP Consortium submitted its full document set for Critical Design Review. (These can be found at http://ska-sdp.org/publications/sdp-cdr-documentation) together with a large number of supporting memos (http://ska-sdp.org/publications/released-sdp-memos-i and http://ska-sdp.org/publications/released-sdp-memos-ii). Table 1 below shows the documents in three main categories: those associated with software and hardware architecture; those explaining the supporting prototyping work that has been undertaken in support of the architecture, and finally those associated with system engineering (SE) and programmatics aspects (e.g. specifications for how SDP interfaces with the wider telescope systems and how components will be constructed). The documents will receive observations from a panel of reviewers up until the end of December. Responses to the observations and scenarios to ‘test’ the architecture will then be discussed at a review meeting from 15th to 18th January 2019 at Jodrell Bank.