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)
University of the Witwatersrand (HUB 211)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

27 Jan 2014

28 Jan 2014

29 Jan 2014

30 Jan 2014

31 Jan 2014

09:00	Plenary Overview Session I (until 13:00) (G17)
09:00	Welcome - Dr Zeblon Vilakazi (University of the Witwatersrand) Prof. John Carter (University of the Witwatersrand) (G17) Slides
09:30	Welcome from the DST - Dr Thomas Auf der Heyde (DST) (G17) Slides
09:50	Workshop Overview - Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of the Witwatersrand) Prof. Michael Inggs (University of Cape Town) (G17) Slides
10:10	--- Coffee Break ---
10:30	Cyber-infrastructure in South Africa - Dr Daniel Adams (DST) (G17) Slides
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) Paper Slides
09:45	Imaging the Radio Sky - Dr Andreas Faltenbaher (University of the Witwatersrand) (G17) Slides
10:30	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00	The Wits Astronomy Data Center: A hands-on data analysis center for multi-frequency astronomy - Prof. Sergio Colafrancesco (University of the Witwatersrand) Dr Nukri Komin (University of the Witwatersrand) (G17) Slides
12:00	User Perspective of Data Analysis Flow with the ATLAS Detector - Dr German Carrillo-Montolla (University of the Witwatersrand) (G17) Slides

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) Slides
09:45	Upgrade of the ATLAS TileCal Electronics - Dr Carlos Solans (CERN) (G17) Slides
10:30	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00	MeerKAT RFI Issues and signal processing challenges - Mr Jason Manley (SKA) (G17) Slides
11:45	FPGA Toolflows: CASPER and Beyond - Mr Wesley New (SKA) (G17) Slides

09:00	Plenary Session IV (until 12:30) (G17)
09:00	Opti-NUM Solutions (Matlab): Distributed Computing (G17) Slides
10:30	--- Coffee Break ---
11:00	White Rabbit - Mr Grzegorz Daniluk (CERN) (G17) Slides
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) Slides

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) Slides
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) Slides
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) Slides
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) Slides
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) Slides
09:35	ATLAS GPU Trigger Studies - Mr Timothy Bristow (University of Edinburgh) (115) Slides
09:50	CPU Benchmarking performance for ARM Processors - Mr Robert Reed (University of the Witwatersrand) (115) Slides
10:05	RAM Benchmarking of ARM-based SoCs - Mr Thomas Wrigley (University of the Witwatersrand) Mr Gerhard Harmsen (University of the Witwatersrand) (115) Slides
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) Slides
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) Slides
11:50	Likelihood Analysis of Higgs anomalous couplings - Mr Gilad Amar (University of Witwatersrand) (115) Slides
12:05	Massively Parallel High-Performance Ray-Tracing in Astrophysics Simulations - Mr Warren Carlson (University of the Witwatersrand) (115) Slides
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) Slides
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) Slides
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) Slides

14:00	Plenary Overview Session II (until 17:00) (G17)
14:00	The MeerKat Correlator & Beamformer - Mr Francois Kapp (SKA) (G17) Slides
14:45	The Long Journey to the Higgs Boson and Beyond at the LHC - Dr Peter Jenni (CERN) (G17) Slides
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) Slides
14:15	An Overview of SANSA Earth Observation Data Processing and Storage: Challenges and Opportunities - Dr Paida Mangara (SANSA) (G17) Slides
15:00	Interferometry - Prof. David Davidson (University of Stellenbosch) (G17) Slides
15:30	--- Coffee Break ---
16:00	Readout Electronics of the Alice Detector - Dr Tom Dietel (University of Cape Town) (G17) Slides
16:45	The Data Pipeline of the AGILE Space Telescope - Prof. Andrew Chen (University of the Witwatersrand) (G17) Slides

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)