HEPiX Autumn 2023 Workshop

Session

New Experiments

19 Oct 2023, 14:00

47. An Square Kilometer Array Regional Centre: Scaling Digital Research Infrastructure for Astronomy in Canada

Stephen Gwyn (National Research Council, Canadian Astronomy Data Centre)

19/10/2023, 14:00

Miscellaneous

The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is a massive radio telescope project being built in South Africa and Australia. While observational astronomers at all wavelengths have been heavy users of high throughput computing for decades, the data rate of the SKA, 600Pb/year, far exceeds all current facilities. Earlier this year, the federal government announced that Canada will join the SKA Observatory...