Square Kilometre Array Telescope Project

New Zealand

SDP

Science Data Processor

Peter Baillie

Project Manager, High Performance Computing Research Laboratory at AUT. Peter’s Project Management role spans across both CSP and SDP Consortia as well as being the Project Manager point of contact to SKA Office. Peter is Project Manager for Low Telescope and reports to Project Manager for CSP Consortium, based in Canada. He also liaises with SDP Resource Management Team for all NZA assigned tasks, outputs and reporting. Peter’s assigned FTE allocation, along with NZA FPGA Developers make-up a significant contribution to the CSIRO / ASTRON / AUT collaboration who is responsible for delivering the Low Correlator and Beamformer design and supporting Read more …

Piers Harding

Solution Architect, Catalyst. Piers is a contributor to the architectural design, and prototyping of the SDP Middleware responsible for providing the platform and environment that contain the image data processing pipelines. Specific areas of focus are: Containerisation, orchestration, scheduling and resource management in HPC, with Docker,  DCOS, and Kubernetes Large scale monitoring and logging Large scale data queue solutions The efficiency of Shared Services Object Storage in HPC Piers is a long time advocate of Open Source software, and Open Data platforms with contributions to the Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, R, and SAP communities.

TN Chan

Managing Director of Compucon New Zealand (Modern Technology NZ Limited) TN focuses on the Compute Node architecture and performance investigations. His current effort (May 2018) is reviewing the previous estimations of SDP hardware size based on the SDP Parametric Model and ARL requirements. He was born in Hong Kong, earned a honors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and became a Chartered Engineer in Electrical Engineering for his experience of practicing in electricity power generation.  He was employed by the New Zealand Electricity Department and moved to Wellington in 1985 where he continued to practice in 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 …

Computing for SKA Colloquium (C4SKA) 2018: Towards Construction

Thursday 15 – Friday 16 February 2018. Venue:  Sir Paul Reeves Building WG404, AUT City Campus. The Local Organising Committee warmly invites you to attend the annual Colloquium hosted by the New Zealand SKA Alliance in conjunction with AUT’s School for Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences. It brings together industry and academics working on the design of computer systems for the SKA – the mega science project of the 21st century to build the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope. This is an opportunity to hear from the experts involved in the design phase and learn about the range of solutions Read more …