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Coordinators report

Coordinators report. First SKADS Workshop Paris 04 September 2006. Arnold van Ardenne SKADS Coordinator SKADS Project Office A STRON, P.O. Box 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo The Netherlands (info@skads-eu.org) www.skads-eu.org. Coordinators report. SKADS Square Kilometre Array Design Study

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Coordinators report

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  1. Coordinators report First SKADS Workshop Paris 04 September 2006 Arnold van Ardenne SKADS Coordinator SKADS Project Office ASTRON, P.O. Box 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo The Netherlands (info@skads-eu.org) www.skads-eu.org

  2. Coordinators report SKADS Square Kilometre Array Design Study implemented as Specific Support Action A Cohering Program toward mid-2009 With 29 partners from 8 EU countries plus S.A.,Canada and Australia and collaborations to US and China Emphasizing Phased Arrays for Radio Astronomy in the next decade “Nothing is so firmly believed as that we least know” Michele Montaingne (1533-1592)/cited IAUXXVIIthJournal

  3. SKADS Main Objectives • Total funding 38M€ program • EC funding 10.44 M€ • Industry involved from the start to • Demonstrate SKA Scientific Viability and Readiness • Demonstrate cost-effective Engineering Solutions and Technological Readiness • Deliver a costed SKA Design

  4. Science and the Aperture Synthesis instrument for Radio Astronomy Baseline longer Resolution increased (VLBI: ~milliarcsec.) Baseline # stations higher Improved calibration & imaging Station 1 2 N Configuration Resolution, imaging, brightness sensitivity etc. Larger collecting area Increased sensitivity (In R.A. expressed as Aeff/Tsys ) Correlation • Other aspects: • Frequency bandwidth (span, instant.) • Dynamic range (in image map) • RFI • Configuration, Site • Steaming Data, Computing power, Archiving • Network performance etc. • Many inderdependencies! Imaging image

  5. Design Studies 1 to8 • Work has Clear objectives, Milestones and Deliverables to provide outcomes in measurable and verifiable form. • DS1: Overall coordination and management. • DS2-6: Activity Cores, sub-divided into 21 coherent Design Study Tasks (DSx-Ty) • DS 7-8: “Synthesizing” the results from DS2-6 • Structure optimized to continuously map the scientific requirements on the technical specifications to produce a common design goal

  6. SKADS Foci: • Blue = Technical R&D work • Yellow= Assessment Studies • Lightest Yellow= Least emphasized Signal intensive Receiving and Collector Concept, Station-level Signal Conditioning and Processing Architecture Control and monitor software Wide Area Data transport Network Data intensive Distribution, Archiving and Use by astronomer Central Processing Data reduction and Imaging Computing intensive Storage intensive SKADS scope: the entire SKA system

  7. SKADS: Based on phased arrays Aperture Arrays “electronic fish-eye lens” Focal Plane Arrays “radio cameras” Multiple f-o-v philosophy for flexibility and surveys

  8. SKADS Governing Structure Participants Radionet ISPO Others SKADS Board SKADS Coordination Committee SKADS MT Coordinator Project Office Project Scientist Project Manager Project Engineer SAG DS leaders Part. >2.5% 1 repres.(others)

  9. SKADS First Year • SKADS Proposal to EC endorsed by ESKAC and Radionet 3 March 2004 • Contract negotiations on basis DoW and CPF’s 1 April 2005 • Project officially started 1 July 2005 • Contract signed 18 Nov. 2005 • Formal Kick-off in Chateau Limelette (Brussels) 17-18 November 2005 • Advance payment received from the EC @ ASTRON 25 Jan. 2006 • First Board meeting 26 Jan. 2006 Chair: Peter Wilkinson (UMAN), Vice-Chair: Franco Mantovani (INAF/IRA) • Project Scientist and Project Engineer in office 26 Jan. 2006 • Draft Consortium Agreement for discussion 25 Jan. 2006 • Project Manager in office 1 March 2006 • Regular meetings:MT 1/wk telecon, 1x/qua, CC 1x/mo 1 April 2006 • Preparations for Annual reporting started 1 May 2006 • Second Board meeting, C.A ready for signing 26 June 06 • Annual Report to EC 15 Aug.2006 • 1 SKADS Workshop (Paris) 04 Sept. 2006

  10. The Program • SKADS Board • Peter Wilkinson, UMan Chair • Franco Montovani, INAF/IRA Vice-Chair • SKADS-MT • Arnold van Ardenne, ASTRON Coordinator • Andre van Es, ASTRON Project Manager • S. Torchinsky, Obs. de Paris Project Scientist • A. Faulkner, UMan Project Engineer • SKADS Project Office • Truus van den Brink Office Manager • Bastiaan van Holst Project Planner • Janneke Wubs, Arno Gregoor Financial Control • The Work • 8 DS leaders, 21 DS-T leaders (some the same), close to 60 people working on SKADS in the first year

  11. Achievements so far • Implementation of PM tools • SKADS management complete • SKADS Project Office complete • All scientific and technical DS-activities started • Recruitment process started • First results dripping in, see Agenda • Improved connection to ISPO & SKA • Improved Science input through Science Advisory Group (“SAG”) • Clear reference for SKADS through “SKADS Benchmark as Reference Design”

  12. Agenda SKADS Workshop 2006 – 4 September 2006 • 10.00 Welcome Daniel Egret • 10.05 Introduction Peter Wilkinson • 10.15 SKADS overview Arnold van Ardenne • 10.30 SKA Perspective Richard Schillizzi • 10.50 Engineering overview Andrew Faulkner • 11.05 Science Overview Steve Torchinsky • 11.30 Science and Astronomical Simulations DS2 Mike Garrett • Science Simulations DS2-T1 Steve Rawlings • Astronomical Data Simulations DS2-T2 Cormac Reynolds • 12.15 The Network and its Output Data DS3 Paul Alexander • Architecture & Network Simulator DS3-T3 Paul Alexander • Network infrastructure & Data Trans. DS3-T1 Simon Garrington • Data Handling, Control & Distributed Computing DS3-T2 Kjeld van der Schaaf • 13.00 Lunch • 14.00 Large EC projects Elena Righi-Steele • 14.20 Tech. Foundations & Enabling Technologies DS4 Andrew Faulkner • Front End technologies DS4-T1 Mo Missous • Digitisation & RFI mitigation DS4-T2 & 3 Pierre Colom • Wideband integrated antennas DS4-T4 Jan Geralt bij de Vaate • Beamforming techniques DS4-T5 Michael Jones • 15.20 EMBRACE DS5Parbhu Patel • Development of EMBRACE as a system DS5-T2 Dion Kant • 16.00 Coffee • 16.15 BEST DS6Stelio Montebugnoli • 16.45 Next 18 months André van Es • 17.00 Conclusion and Questions Arnold van Ardenne • 17.15 Close

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