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SRCNet — Vision, Progress, and Cross-Community Computing for the SKA Telescope
The SKA Regional Centre Network (SRCNet) is a cornerstone of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory’s distributed science computing model, federating regional centres into a coherent global infrastructure providing user access to data, processing, and analysis.
The SRCNet Project is an international project to deliver the SRC Network, pulling in expertise and data centres from across 15 SKA countries and from within the SKA Observatory itself. Here we will present the progress we have made in the past three years, with particular emphasis on how solutions developed in the high-energy physics community are being evaluated, adopted and extended to meet SRCNet requirements.
We review the current state of the SRCNet global software stack and the local node deployments that comprise the SRC "Network" outlining the key technical and operational challenges at SKA scale. We conclude with an outlook on upcoming developments as SRCNet moves toward production readiness and early science operations in line with the SKAO's construction and move to operations.