Next Generation Correlators for Radio Astronomy and Geodesy: Preliminary Programme
Oral presentations will be allowed 20 minutes plus a few minutes for questions/discussions. Some time slots are available for 30 minute talks (indicated by 30 in brackets after the title). A list of all (received) abstracts can be found here.
Monday, June26
20.00 - 22.00 - Registration, reception
Tuesday, June 27
8.00 - 9.00 - Registration
9.00 - 9.20 - Opening and welcome by Mike Garrett, general information by Arpad Szomoru
9.20 - 10.30 - Background and Reviews (1). Chair Jon Romney
Schilizzi - The Square Kilometre Array - the big data processing challenge on the horizon
Garrett - Review of Radio Astronomy Developments in Europe
Carlson - Review of Developments in the Americas
10.30 - 11.00 - Break
11.00 - 11.45 - Background and Reviews (2). Chair Mike Garrett
Kobayashi - New Correlator Developments in Japan
Tingay - Review of Developments in Australia and mainland Asia
11.45 - 12.30 - Current Developments (1). Chair Mike Garrett
Gunst - On the fly LOFAR Station Correlator
Carlson - Technology and Functionality of the EVLA Correlator
12.30 - 14.00 - Lunch
13.30 - 14.00 - Registration
14.00 - 15.30 - Current Developments (2). Chair Zhang Xiuzhong
Surkis - New Correlator MicroPARSEC
Ferris - The CABB Correlator
Zhang - The Real Time Correlator of CE-1 Project
15.30 - 16.00 - Break
16.00 - 17.30 - Current Developments (3). Chair Peter Hall
Gupta - Digital Back-Ends at the GMRT -- Current Status and Upgrade Plans
Comoretto - Hybrid Architecture for the ALMA Correlator
Werthimer - General Purpose FPGA Boards and Libraries for Correlators, Beam Formers, Spectrometers, and VLBI
Parsons - A Scalable, FPGA-Based 8-Station Correlator Based on Modular Hardware and Parameterized Libraries
Wednesday, June 28
8.00 - 9.00 - Registration
9.00 - 10.10 - Current Developments (4). Chair Walter Alef
Navarro - Implementation of the Antenna Array Signal Processing Breadboard for the Deep Space Network
Roh - Current Status of Korea-Japan Joint VLBI Correlator Development
Szomoru - e-EVN: New Use of an Old Correlator
10.10 - 10.30 - Software Correlators(1). Chair Walter Alef
Deller - DiFX - A General Purpose Software Correlator
10.30 - 11.00 Break
11.00 - 12.30 - Software Correlators(2). Chair Kjeld van der Schaaf
Kondo - An XF-type Software Correlator Developed by NICT
Romein - The LOFAR Blue Gene/L Correlator (30)
Mercolino - The Software Correlator for ESA DELTA-DOR
12.30 - 14.00 - Lunch
13.30 - 14.00 - Registration
14.00 - 14.20 - Software Correlators (3). Chair Steven Tingay
Weimin - Chinese VLBI Software Correlator Developments and its Applications
14.20 - 15.30 - Next Generation Correlators and Demonstrators (1). Chair Steven Tingay
Emrich - Interferometer correlators in 32-90 nm CMOS technology (Slides presented, did not appear in person)
Hall - The SKA Reference Design and Project Directions
Blommaart - The LOFAR Experience and its Relevance to Future Radio Astronomy Projects
van der Schaaf - Software Technology and Microprocessor Cores in Future Correlators
15.30 - 16.00 - Break attachment: 16.00 - 17.30 - Panel Discussion on Hardware vs Software vs Hybrid Correlators. Chair Peter Hall. Introduction by chair
19.00 - Reception and Workshop Dinner at "het Feith Huis"
Thursday, June 29
9.00 - 10.30 - Next Generation Correlators and Demonstrators (2). Chair Tetsuro Kondo
Langman - Digital Signal Processor Architecture for the Karoo Array
de Souza - SKAMP2 Correlator
Bunton - SKAMP/xNTD/LFD
Ferris - The MOPS Correlator
10.30 - 11.00 - Break
11.00 - 12.00 - Next Generation Correlators and Demonstrators (3). Chair Arpad Szomoru
van Langevelde - FABRIC - A Pilot Study for Distributed Correlation
Pogrebenko - N^2 GC
Veelen - Failing Scaling and Roadmapping to New Architectures
12.00 - 13.00 - Lunch
13.00 - 14.10 - Panel Discussion on Interoperability and Synergy. Chair Steven Tingay. Introduction by chair
14.10 - 14.30 - Dewdney - Summary and conclusions
14.45 - Some participants leave for the SKADS board meeting in Zaandam (train leaves Groningen at 15.17, arrives in Zaandam at 17.44)
15.00 - 17.00 - Visit Blue Gene correlator and 3-D visualisation demonstration