Name: High-performance Signal and Data Processing: Challenges in Astro- and Particle Physics and Radio Astronomy Instrumentation
Start: 2014-01-27T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2014-01-31T18:00:00+02:00
Location: University of the Witwatersrand

High-performance Signal and Data Processing: Challenges in Astro- and Particle Physics and Radio Astronomy Instrumentation

from Monday, 27 January 2014 (08:00) to Friday, 31 January 2014 (18:00)

Monday, 27 January 2014
09:00
09:00 - 13:00
Room: G17
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - John Carter (University of the Witwatersrand) Zeblon Vilakazi (University of the Witwatersrand)

09:30 Welcome from the DST - Thomas Auf der Heyde (DST)

09:50 Workshop Overview - Bruce Mellado (University of the Witwatersrand) Michael Inggs (University of Cape Town)

10:30 Cyber-infrastructure in South Africa - Daniel Adams (DST)

11:20 The SKA & MeerKAT - Justin Jonas (SKA)
14:00
14:00 - 17:00
Room: G17
Contributions

14:00 The MeerKat Correlator & Beamformer - Francois Kapp (SKA)

14:45 The Long Journey to the Higgs Boson and Beyond at the LHC - Peter Jenni (CERN)

16:10 The national SA-CERN programme - Jean Cleymans (University of Cape Town)
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: G17
Contributions

09:00 Observing to the Very Edge of a Black Hole Using Wideband Signal Processing - Jonathan Weintroub (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

09:45 Imaging the Radio Sky - Andreas Faltenbaher (University of the Witwatersrand)

11:00 The Wits Astronomy Data Center: A hands-on data analysis center for multi-frequency astronomy - Nukri Komin (University of the Witwatersrand) Sergio Colafrancesco (University of the Witwatersrand)

12:00 User Perspective of Data Analysis Flow with the ATLAS Detector - German Carrillo-Montolla (University of the Witwatersrand)
13:30
13:30 - 17:30
Room: G17
Contributions

13:30 The Computing Model of ATLAS - Sahal Yacoob (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

14:15 An Overview of SANSA Earth Observation Data Processing and Storage: Challenges and Opportunities - Paida Mangara (SANSA)

15:00 Interferometry - David Davidson (University of Stellenbosch)

16:00 Readout Electronics of the Alice Detector - Tom Dietel (University of Cape Town)

16:45 The Data Pipeline of the AGILE Space Telescope - Andrew Chen (University of the Witwatersrand)
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
09:00
09:00 - 13:15
Room: G17
Contributions

09:00 The upgrade of the ATLAS readout system - Alberto Valero (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (Universidad de Valencia-CSIC))

09:45 Upgrade of the ATLAS TileCal Electronics - Carlos Solans (CERN)

11:00 MeerKAT RFI Issues and signal processing challenges - Jason Manley (SKA)

11:45 FPGA Toolflows: CASPER and Beyond - Wesley New (SKA)
14:30

14:30 - 17:30
Room: 3rd Year Lab, School of Physics
Thursday, 30 January 2014
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: G17
Contributions

09:00 Opti-NUM Solutions (Matlab): Distributed Computing

11:00 White Rabbit - Grzegorz Daniluk (CERN)

11:45 The RHINO Digital Processing Skills Development Initiative: An integrated review of the platform, resources and training structures - Simon Winberg (University of Cape Town)
14:00

14:00 - 17:30

14:00 - 17:30
Room: 3rd Year Lab, School of Physics
Friday, 31 January 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: 111
Contributions

09:00 A Scalable Heterogeneous Architecture for Software Defined Radio on the RHINO platform - Matthew Bridges (University of Cape Town)

09:20 An intuitive Parallel Programming Tool-flow for Software Defined Radio Signal Processing on Heterogeneous Architectures - Lerato Mohapi (University of Cape Town)

09:40 Evaluation of Open-Source High-Level Tool-Flows for Rapid Prototyping of SDR Applications - Khobatha Setetemela (University of Cape Town (RRSG))
09:00 - 10:30
Room: 115
Contributions

09:00 Application of Data Intensive Science to the Electrical Energy Grid - Albert Dove (University of Witwatersrand) Ivan Hofsajer (University of Witwatersrand)

09:20 ARM processors as a low cost alternative tool for computation of FFTs for radio astronomy - Mitchell Cox (University of the Witwatersrand)

09:35 ATLAS GPU Trigger Studies - Timothy Bristow (University of Edinburgh)

09:50 CPU Benchmarking performance for ARM Processors - Robert Reed (University of the Witwatersrand)

10:05 RAM Benchmarking of ARM-based SoCs - Gerhard Harmsen (University of the Witwatersrand) Thomas Wrigley (University of the Witwatersrand)
10:31 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:31 - 10:59
Room: HUB 211
11:00
11:00 - 12:40
Room: 115
Contributions

11:00 Performance Analysis of virtualization for high performance computing - Matthew Cawood (University of Cape Town)

11:20 Massive Parallelism for Combinatorial Problems - Edward Steere (University of the Witwatersrand)

11:35 Optimising Linux Operating System on ARM Architecture - Jonathan Padavatan (Ithemba Labs)

11:50 Likelihood Analysis of Higgs anomalous couplings - Gilad Amar (University of Witwatersrand)

12:05 Massively Parallel High-Performance Ray-Tracing in Astrophysics Simulations - Warren Carlson (University of the Witwatersrand)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: 111
Contributions

11:00 Noise Sensitivity of VHF Broadband Interferometers - Chih-Fong (Brady ) Wen (University of KwaZulu Natal)

11:20 LED Board for the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS Detector at the LHC - Titus Masike (University of the Witwatersrand)

11:35 Prometeo, the next generation test-bench for the front-end electronics of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter upgrade phase-II - Xifeng Ruan (University of the Witwatersrand)

11:50 An ATCA framework for the ATLAS Front to Back End Electronics for the Phase II Upgrade at the LHC - Robert Reed (University of the Witwatersrand)
14:00

14:00 - 17:00
Room: 3rd Year Lab, School of Physics