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)
University of the Witwatersrand (HUB 211)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
27 Jan 2014
28 Jan 2014
29 Jan 2014
30 Jan 2014
31 Jan 2014
AM
09:00
Plenary Overview Session I (until 13:00) (G17)
09:00 Welcome - Prof. John Carter (University of the Witwatersrand) Dr Zeblon Vilakazi (University of the Witwatersrand)   (G17)
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09:30 Welcome from the DST - Dr Thomas Auf der Heyde (DST)   (G17)
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09:50 Workshop Overview - Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of the Witwatersrand) Prof. Michael Inggs (University of Cape Town)   (G17)
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10:10 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 Cyber-infrastructure in South Africa - Dr Daniel Adams (DST)   (G17)
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11:20 The SKA & MeerKAT - Prof. Justin Jonas (SKA)   (G17)
12:20 --- Group Photo ---
09:00
Plenary Session I (until 12:30) (G17)
09:00 Observing to the Very Edge of a Black Hole Using Wideband Signal Processing - Dr Jonathan Weintroub (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)   (G17)
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09:45 Imaging the Radio Sky - Dr Andreas Faltenbaher (University of the Witwatersrand)   (G17)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 The Wits Astronomy Data Center: A hands-on data analysis center for multi-frequency astronomy - Dr Nukri Komin (University of the Witwatersrand) Prof. Sergio Colafrancesco (University of the Witwatersrand)   (G17)
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12:00 User Perspective of Data Analysis Flow with the ATLAS Detector - Dr German Carrillo-Montolla (University of the Witwatersrand)   (G17)
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09:00
Plenary Session III (until 13:15) (G17)
09:00 The upgrade of the ATLAS readout system - Mr Alberto Valero (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (Universidad de Valencia-CSIC))   (G17)
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09:45 Upgrade of the ATLAS TileCal Electronics - Dr Carlos Solans (CERN)   (G17)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 MeerKAT RFI Issues and signal processing challenges - Mr Jason Manley (SKA)   (G17)
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11:45 FPGA Toolflows: CASPER and Beyond - Mr Wesley New (SKA)   (G17)
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09:00
Plenary Session IV (until 12:30) (G17)
09:00 Opti-NUM Solutions (Matlab): Distributed Computing   (G17)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 White Rabbit - Mr Grzegorz Daniluk (CERN)   (G17)
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11:45 The RHINO Digital Processing Skills Development Initiative: An integrated review of the platform, resources and training structures - Dr Simon Winberg (University of Cape Town)   (G17)
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09:00
Parallel Session I - Digital Backend Processing Hardware & Tools (until 10:30) (111)
09:00 A Scalable Heterogeneous Architecture for Software Defined Radio on the RHINO platform - Mr Matthew Bridges (University of Cape Town)   (111)
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09:20 An intuitive Parallel Programming Tool-flow for Software Defined Radio Signal Processing on Heterogeneous Architectures - Mr Lerato Mohapi (University of Cape Town)   (111)
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09:40 Evaluation of Open-Source High-Level Tool-Flows for Rapid Prototyping of SDR Applications - Mr Khobatha Setetemela (University of Cape Town (RRSG))   (111)
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09:00
Parallel Session II - High-throughput supercomputing & performance testing (1) (until 10:30) (115)
09:00 Application of Data Intensive Science to the Electrical Energy Grid - Mr Albert Dove (University of Witwatersrand) Dr Ivan Hofsajer (University of Witwatersrand)   (115)
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09:20 ARM processors as a low cost alternative tool for computation of FFTs for radio astronomy - Mr Mitchell Cox (University of the Witwatersrand)   (115)
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09:35 ATLAS GPU Trigger Studies - Mr Timothy Bristow (University of Edinburgh)   (115)
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09:50 CPU Benchmarking performance for ARM Processors - Mr Robert Reed (University of the Witwatersrand)   (115)
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10:05 RAM Benchmarking of ARM-based SoCs - Mr Thomas Wrigley (University of the Witwatersrand) Mr Gerhard Harmsen (University of the Witwatersrand)   (115)
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10:31 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Parallel Session III - High-throughput supercomputing & performance testing (2) (until 12:40) (115)
11:00 Performance Analysis of virtualization for high performance computing - Mr Matthew Cawood (University of Cape Town)   (115)
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11:20 Massive Parallelism for Combinatorial Problems - Mr Edward Steere (University of the Witwatersrand)   (115)
11:35 Optimising Linux Operating System on ARM Architecture - Mr Jonathan Padavatan (Ithemba Labs)   (115)
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11:50 Likelihood Analysis of Higgs anomalous couplings - Mr Gilad Amar (University of Witwatersrand)   (115)
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12:05 Massively Parallel High-Performance Ray-Tracing in Astrophysics Simulations - Mr Warren Carlson (University of the Witwatersrand)   (115)
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11:00
Parallel Session IV - High-speed Signal Processing Platforms and Software (until 12:30) (111)
11:00 Noise Sensitivity of VHF Broadband Interferometers - Mr Chih-Fong (Brady ) Wen (University of KwaZulu Natal)   (111)
11:20 LED Board for the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS Detector at the LHC - Mr Titus Masike (University of the Witwatersrand)   (111)
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11:35 Prometeo, the next generation test-bench for the front-end electronics of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter upgrade phase-II - Dr Xifeng Ruan (University of the Witwatersrand)   (111)
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11:50 An ATCA framework for the ATLAS Front to Back End Electronics for the Phase II Upgrade at the LHC - Mr Robert Reed (University of the Witwatersrand)   (111)
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PM
14:00
Plenary Overview Session II (until 17:00) (G17)
14:00 The MeerKat Correlator & Beamformer - Mr Francois Kapp (SKA)   (G17)
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14:45 The Long Journey to the Higgs Boson and Beyond at the LHC - Dr Peter Jenni (CERN)   (G17)
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15:40 --- Coffee Break ---
16:10 The national SA-CERN programme - Prof. Jean Cleymans (University of Cape Town)   (G17)
13:30
Plenary session II (until 17:30) (G17)
13:30 The Computing Model of ATLAS - Dr Sahal Yacoob (University of KwaZulu-Natal)   (G17)
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14:15 An Overview of SANSA Earth Observation Data Processing and Storage: Challenges and Opportunities - Dr Paida Mangara (SANSA)   (G17)
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15:00 Interferometry - Prof. David Davidson (University of Stellenbosch)   (G17)
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15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Readout Electronics of the Alice Detector - Dr Tom Dietel (University of Cape Town)   (G17)
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16:45 The Data Pipeline of the AGILE Space Telescope - Prof. Andrew Chen (University of the Witwatersrand)   (G17)
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14:30
Hands-on Session I (until 17:30) (3rd Year Lab, School of Physics)
14:00
Hands-on Session II (until 17:30) ()
14:00
Hands-on Session III (until 17:30) (3rd Year Lab, School of Physics)
14:00
Hands-on Session IV (until 17:00) (3rd Year Lab, School of Physics)