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Ensor

Mid-Year-Mini C4SKA Colloquium – 12 July 2018

The New Zealand SKA team welcomed 50 participants to share in the excitement of the New Zealand team at their Mid-Year-Mini Public Seminar on Thursday 12 July 2018, from 1:00pm to 5:30pm. AUT University, Building WG, Room 404, Mayoral Drive, between Wakefield Street and Wellesley Street East, Auckland. The seminar contained updates on science and computing related to the international SKA project to which New Zealand is in its 4th year of contribution.  The New Zealand Alliance team members were there for face to face discussions of topics of interest. The seminar included presentations on both the Science of the Universe and Read more …

Andrew Ensor

Director NZ SKA Alliance, High Performance Computing Research Laboratory, AUT. Andrew is the Director of the New Zealand SKA Alliance, coordinating New Zealand’s significant involvement in the design of the SKA. He has been active in the SKA’s Central Signal Processor and in the Science Data Processor design since 2013. He is also the Director of the High Performance Computing Research Laboratory at AUT. For the SKA project, Andrew has: Developed efficient streaming data compression algorithms which helped form the start up company Nyriad. Lead the Survey correlator design team. Worked on optimising FFT algorithms across a range of hardware Read more …