SKA: The Ultimate Big Data Project
Session Leader
Additional Session Leader
Event Type
Birds of a Feather
TimeTuesday, November 14th12:15pm -
1:15pm
Location501-502
DescriptionThe Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the world’s
largest radio-telescope, to be built in Australia and
South Africa in an 11 countries' effort. SKA1 design
will finish in 2018 with construction scheduled 2019 –
2025. SKA will produce Big Data on a scale that cannot
be processed with today's technologies. This BoF brings
together vendors and OEMs with participants from SKA's
computing platform design to discuss topics such as:
* Data Management Challenges,
* HPDA,
* Frameworks for SKA-scale projects,
* Compute platform design, OS, Middleware,
* Accelerators and HPC software,
* Power considerations toward exascale computing and others.
* Data Management Challenges,
* HPDA,
* Frameworks for SKA-scale projects,
* Compute platform design, OS, Middleware,
* Accelerators and HPC software,
* Power considerations toward exascale computing and others.
Session Leader
Additional Session Leader
