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High Performance
Computing in Observational Astronomy: Requirements and
Challenges Scientific Programme Venue: Bhaskara III, IUCAA (unless otherwise indicated)
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Sunday 11.10.2009 1400-2000: Registration (Room A1, IUCAA)
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Monday 12.10.2009 (Registration will remain open from 1100 hrs onwards at Room A1, IUCAA)
0930-1100: Inauguration and Keynote I (venue: Chandrasekhar Auditorium) Chair: A. Kembhavi Inauguration by Dr. S. Ramakrishnan (15) Alex Szalay (JHU, Baltimore): HPC in Optical Astronomy (30) Peter Quinn (ICRAR/UWA, Perth): HPC in Radio Astronomy (30)
1130-1300: Optical I : Image Processing Pipelines (venue: Chandrasekhar Auditorium) Chair: R. Srianand Bhuvnesh Jain (U. Pennsylvania): Overview of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (15) Robert Lupton (Princeton U.): Optical scientific pipelines: the intestinal flora, and how not to reinvent it again (35) Adam Bolton (U. Utah): Beyond the Boxcar: Modern Calibration and Extraction of Optical Spectroscopy (25)
1400-1530: Radio I: Software Back-ends Chair: Yashwant Gupta P. Chris Broekema (ASTRON): The LOFAR Central Processor: design, implementation and performancei (20) Jayanta Roy (NCRA): The GMRT Software Back-end (20) Randall Wayth (Curtin U.): GPU based software correlation (20) Mark Kettenis (JIVE): SCARIe FABRIC: A distributed software correlator for VLBI (15)
1600-1730: Optical II: VO Technologies Chair: Peter Quinn Ajit Kembhavi (IUCAA): Virtual Observatories (20) Ashish Mahabal (CalTech): Bayesian classification of transients in real time (15) Alex Szalay (JHU, Baltimore): Parallel Cross-matching of Large Astronomical Catalogs (20) Vinu Vikram (MGU, Kottayam): Pymorph: Automated galaxy structural parameter estimation in Python (15)
1830-1930: Evening Lecture (venue: Chandrasekhar Auditorium) Matthew Bailes (Swinburne U.): A Virtual Tour of the Universe
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Tuesday 13.10.2009
0930-1040: Keynote session II Chair: D. Bhattacharya Corinne Boyer (TMT Corp.): Computing Challenges in Adaptive Optics for Large Telescopes (30) Peter Dewdney (SPDO, Manchester): Overview of the Square Kilometer Array (30)
1110-1300: Technology I: HPC architecture and implementation Chair: Tarun Souradeep V. Gaikwad (Dell): HPC Reference Architecture (25) S. Kannan (IBM): Blue Gene and Cell processors (25) V. C. V. Rao (CDAC): GPU computing (25) S. Yerneni (Cray): Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) systems – infrastructure challenges (25)
1400-1530: Radio II: Processing Pipelines Chair: Tim Cornwell Ben Humphreys (CSIRO/ATNF): ASKAP Processing Pipelines (20) Sandeep Sirothia (NCRA): A AIPS++/Glish based analysis pipeline for the GMRT (20) V.N. Pandey (Kapteyn Inst/ASTRON) : The LOFAR off-line system and processing (20) Sanjay Bhatnagar (NRAO): HPC processing for EVLA and ALMA (20)
1600-1730: Radio III: Future Large Telescopes and the SKA Chair: Jayaram Chengalur Tim Cornwell (CSIRO/ATNF): ASKAP computing model (25) Duncan Hall (SPDO, Manchester): SKA Software and Computing: Estimating the Sizes of the Challenges (25) Athol Kemball (U. Illinois): Imaging and calibration for the SKA ((25)
1900-2000: Cultural Programme (venue: Chandrasekhar Auditorium)
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Wednesday 14.10.2009
0930-1040: Keynote session III Chair: Duncan Hall S. Natarajan (IBM): A Perspective on Cloud Computing (30) Harrick Vin (TRDDC/TCS): Model-driven development of system software for large telescopes (30)
1110-1300: Control and Monitor Software Systems for Telescopes Chair: Peter Dewdney A.L. Ahuja (TRDDC/TCS): SACE – A Generic Control and Monitor software (20) Vivek Mohile (Persistent Systems Ltd): Simulation based validation and testing for telescope control systems (20) Ruud Overeem (ASTRON): Monitor and Control of LOFAR (20) Ben Humphreys (CSIRO/ATNF): ASKAP Control and Monitoring system (15) Lize van den Heever (SKA-SA, Cape Town): MeerKAT Monitor and Control (15)
1400-1530: High Energy Astronomy and Gravity Waves Chair: Ranjeev Misra S.V. Dhurandhar (IUCAA): HPC for Gravitational Wave Astronomy (35) Gerald Skinner (GSFC): Computing challenges in Coded Mask Imaging (30) Dipankar Bhattacharya (IUCAA): Coded Mask Imaging with ASTROSAT (15)
1600-1745: CMB and the Early Universe Chair: Jasjeet Bagla Eric Hivon (IAP, Paris): Challenges for CMB data analysis for Planck mission (35) Jean-Marc Delouis (IAP, Paris): Planck HFI-DPC Software Infrastructure (15) Tarun Souradeep (IUCAA): Challenges beyond the power spectrum of CMB (15) Ue-Li Pen (CITA, Toronto): Epoch of Reionization data analysis pipeline (20)
Conference Banquet (8 pm onwards)
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Thursday 15.10.2009
0930-1040: Keynote Session IV Chair: V. Sundararajan Matthew Bailes (Swinburne U.): Petaflop Computing on the Cheap (30) Bruce Elmegreen (IBM): Computational Challenges - An Industry Perspective (30)
1110-1300: Radio IV: Pulsars, Transients and Hardware Chair: Matthew Bailes Mike Keith (CSIRO/ATNF): HPC for pulsar applications (20) Ramesh Bhat (Swinburne U.): Transient searching with GMRT (15) Keith Bannister (U. Sydney): Detecting fast radio transients with next generation interferometers (15) John Ford (NRAO): High Performance Computing Today and Tomorrow at the Green Bank Telescope (20) Harro Verkouter (JIVE): The UniBoard - A high-performance FPGA-based stream -processor for radio-astronomical data (15) Shing Kwong Wong (NTU, Taiwan): Real-Time Tbps Digital Correlator in NTU-Array (15)
1400-1530: Technology II: HPC of the future: Processors, Grid and Cloud Chair: Goldi Misra J. Babu (Intel): The Future of Microprocessors (25) Subrata Chattopadhyay (CDAC Bangalore): Grid Computing - the Road Ahead (25) Badrinath Ramamurthy (HP): Motivations and Challenges for HPC in the Cloud (25)
1600-1750: Technology III: Software, Storage and Networks; Conference Summary Chair: K.S. Dwarakanath R. Malladi (Intel): Software tools in real-time processing (25)
Goldi Misra (CDAC): Networks (25)
Jasjeet Bagla (HRI, Allahabad): Conference Summary
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Friday 16.10.2009 Site visits:
Participants interested in site visits must sign up latest by 13 Oct evening for one of the two following choices:
Sign-up sheet is available at the Conference Secretariat.
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