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

Africa/Johannesburg
HUB 211 (University of the Witwatersrand)

HUB 211

University of the Witwatersrand

Wits Professional Development HUB 92 Empire Road, Braamfontein 2001, Johannesburg
Bruce Mellado (University of the Witwatersrand) , Michael Inggs (University of the Cape Town)
Description
The workshop aims to bring together key people to discuss grand challenges facing the signal processing community in Radio Astronomy, Gamma Ray Astronomy and Particle Physics, and to provide knowledge sharing to delegates in both a lecture format, as well as a classroom environment for hands-on hardware and software training. General overviews and in-depth presentations will be given.
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Participants
  • Adriaan Snyman
  • Albert Dove
  • Alberto Valero
  • Alexander Akoto-Danso
  • Amer Nazir
  • Amrit Purshotam
  • Andreas Faltenbacher
  • Andrew Chen
  • Andrew Martens
  • Andrew Nicol
  • Andrew van der Byl
  • Ari Croock
  • Artur Szostak
  • Ben Sheard
  • BISMARK ABEKU NYAMEKYE KUSHIATOR
  • Bongani Maqabuka
  • Brett Terespolsky
  • Bright Agbosege
  • Bright Ndebele
  • Bruce Becker
  • Bruce Mellado
  • Carlos Solans Sánchez
  • Catherine Cress
  • Catherine Hsu
  • Cesar Augusto Marin
  • Chad Pelwan
  • Chamunorwa Oscar Kureba
  • Cheri Meyer-Palmer
  • Chih-Fong Wen
  • Christiaan Scholtz
  • Conrad Mueller
  • Craig Tong
  • Danie Meiring
  • Daniel Adams
  • Daniel Czech
  • Daniel Joubert
  • Daniel Mokhohlane
  • David Davidson
  • David Gray
  • David Merand
  • David Smith
  • Dayne Kemp
  • Deon Steyn
  • Edward Steere
  • Ekow Otoo
  • fernando bigay
  • François Kapp
  • G. CARRILLO-MONTOYA
  • Gerhard Harmsen
  • Gerhard Taljaard
  • Gilad Amar
  • Gordon Cooper
  • Grzegorz Daniluk
  • Guillermo Hamity
  • Harshna Jivan
  • Heiko Heilgendorff
  • Henry Throop
  • Herman Tshesane
  • Itumeleng Molefi
  • Ivan Hofsajer
  • Jacki Gilmore
  • James Gowans
  • Jason Manley
  • Jean Cleymans
  • John Poole
  • John-Philip Taylor
  • Jonah Hooper
  • Jonathan Keartland
  • Jonathan Padavatan
  • Jonathan Weintroub
  • Justin Jonas
  • Kamela Sekonya
  • Keitumetse Mogatusi
  • Kelvin Gomo
  • Khobatha Setetemela
  • Kudakwashe Jakata
  • Laila Tribelhorn
  • Lerato Louis
  • Lerato Mohapi
  • MacDonald Ginyani
  • Mariet Venter
  • Mario Yannikarkis
  • Matthew Bridges
  • Matthew Cawood
  • Matthew Spoor
  • Maxwell Jingo
  • Michael Inggs
  • Mitchell Cox
  • Mohd Shaiful Rizal Hassan
  • Mukesh Kumar
  • naba Mondal
  • Nelson Rode
  • Nicole Wilson
  • Niel Van der Walt
  • Nigel De Bruin
  • Nkululeko Qwabe
  • Nukri Komin
  • Oana Vickey BOERIU
  • Pablo Moreno
  • Paida Mangara
  • Peter Jenni
  • Phumlani Khoza
  • Prospery C. Simpemba
  • Remofilwe Cleopatra Mogapi
  • Reuben Dlamini
  • Robert Reed
  • Sahal Yacoob
  • Salvatore Gioio
  • Sara Castells
  • Sean Murray
  • Sergio Colafrancesco
  • Siegfried Fortsch
  • Simon Mullins
  • Simon Winberg
  • Siphiwe Thwala
  • Siyabonga Hlophe
  • Smart Charles Lubobya
  • Stefan von Buddenbrock
  • Takalani Nemaungani
  • Tamara Makhateng
  • Thomas Auf der Heyde
  • Thomas Wrigley
  • Tim Gebbie
  • Timothy Bristow
  • Timothy Mehay
  • Titus Masike
  • Tom Dietel
  • Trevor Vickey
  • Vangile Lushaba
  • Vereese van Tonder
  • Vicky Makhathini
  • Vishnu Jejjala
  • Warren Carlson
  • Wesley New
  • William Wright
  • Xifeng RUAN
    • 09:00 13:00
      Plenary Overview Session I G17 (HUB)

      G17

      HUB

      • 09:00
        Welcome 30m
        Speakers: Prof. John Carter (University of the Witwatersrand) , Dr Zeblon Vilakazi (University of the Witwatersrand)
        Slides
      • 09:30
        Welcome from the DST 20m
        Speaker: Dr Thomas Auf der Heyde (DST)
        Slides
      • 09:50
        Workshop Overview 20m
        Speakers: Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of the Witwatersrand) , Prof. Michael Inggs (University of Cape Town)
        Slides
      • 10:10
        Coffee Break 20m
      • 10:30
        Cyber-infrastructure in South Africa 50m
        Speaker: Dr Daniel Adams (DST)
        Slides
      • 11:20
        The SKA & MeerKAT 1h
        Speaker: Prof. Justin Jonas (SKA)
      • 12:20
        Group Photo 10m
    • 14:00 17:00
      Plenary Overview Session II G17 (HUB)

      G17

      HUB

      • 14:00
        The MeerKat Correlator & Beamformer 45m
        Speaker: Mr Francois Kapp (SKA)
        Slides
      • 14:45
        The Long Journey to the Higgs Boson and Beyond at the LHC 55m
        Speaker: Dr Peter Jenni (CERN)
        Slides
      • 15:40
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 16:10
        The national SA-CERN programme 50m
        Speaker: Prof. Jean Cleymans (University of Cape Town)
    • 09:00 12:30
      Plenary Session I G17 (HUB)

      G17

      HUB

      • 09:00
        Observing to the Very Edge of a Black Hole Using Wideband Signal Processing 45m
        Speaker: Dr Jonathan Weintroub (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
        Paper
        Slides
      • 09:45
        Imaging the Radio Sky 45m
        Speaker: Dr Andreas Faltenbaher (University of the Witwatersrand)
        Slides
      • 10:30
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 11:00
        The Wits Astronomy Data Center: A hands-on data analysis center for multi-frequency astronomy 1h
        Speakers: Dr Nukri Komin (University of the Witwatersrand) , Prof. Sergio Colafrancesco (University of the Witwatersrand)
        Slides
      • 12:00
        User Perspective of Data Analysis Flow with the ATLAS Detector 30m
        Speaker: Dr German Carrillo-Montolla (University of the Witwatersrand)
        Slides
    • 13:30 17:30
      Plenary session II G17 (HUB)

      G17

      HUB

      • 13:30
        The Computing Model of ATLAS 45m
        Speaker: Dr Sahal Yacoob (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
        Slides
      • 14:15
        An Overview of SANSA Earth Observation Data Processing and Storage: Challenges and Opportunities 45m
        Speaker: Dr Paida Mangara (SANSA)
        Slides
      • 15:00
        Interferometry 30m
        Speaker: Prof. David Davidson (University of Stellenbosch)
        Slides
      • 15:30
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 16:00
        Readout Electronics of the Alice Detector 45m
        Speaker: Dr Tom Dietel (University of Cape Town)
        Slides
      • 16:45
        The Data Pipeline of the AGILE Space Telescope 45m
        Speaker: Prof. Andrew Chen (University of the Witwatersrand)
        Slides
    • 09:00 13:15
      Plenary Session III G17 (HUB)

      G17

      HUB

      • 09:00
        The upgrade of the ATLAS readout system 45m
        Speaker: Mr Alberto Valero (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (Universidad de Valencia-CSIC))
        Slides
      • 09:45
        Upgrade of the ATLAS TileCal Electronics 45m
        Speaker: Dr Carlos Solans (CERN)
        Slides
      • 10:30
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 11:00
        MeerKAT RFI Issues and signal processing challenges 45m
        Speaker: Mr Jason Manley (SKA)
        Slides
      • 11:45
        FPGA Toolflows: CASPER and Beyond 30m
        Speaker: Mr Wesley New (SKA)
        Slides
    • 14:30 17:30
      Hands-on Session I 3rd Year Lab, School of Physics

      3rd Year Lab, School of Physics

      University of the Witwatersrand

      Wits Professional HUB 92 Empire Road Johannesburg

      RHINO/ROACH

    • 09:00 12:30
      Plenary Session IV G17 (HUB)

      G17

      HUB

      • 09:00
        Opti-NUM Solutions (Matlab): Distributed Computing 1h 30m
        Slides
      • 10:30
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 11:00
        White Rabbit 45m
        Speaker: Mr Grzegorz Daniluk (CERN)
        Slides
      • 11:45
        The RHINO Digital Processing Skills Development Initiative: An integrated review of the platform, resources and training structures 45m
        Speaker: Dr Simon Winberg (University of Cape Town)
        Slides
    • 14:00 17:30
      Hands-on Session II Computing Lab, School of Physics

      Computing Lab, School of Physics

      GRID Tutorial

    • 14:00 17:30
      Hands-on Session III 3rd Year Lab, School of Physics

      3rd Year Lab, School of Physics

      University of the Witwatersrand

      RHINO/ROACH

    • 09:00 10:30
      Parallel Session I - Digital Backend Processing Hardware & Tools 111 (HUB)

      111

      HUB

      • 09:00
        A Scalable Heterogeneous Architecture for Software Defined Radio on the RHINO platform 20m
        Speaker: Mr Matthew Bridges (University of Cape Town)
        Slides
      • 09:20
        An intuitive Parallel Programming Tool-flow for Software Defined Radio Signal Processing on Heterogeneous Architectures 20m
        Speaker: Mr Lerato Mohapi (University of Cape Town)
        Slides
      • 09:40
        Evaluation of Open-Source High-Level Tool-Flows for Rapid Prototyping of SDR Applications 20m
        Speaker: Mr Khobatha Setetemela (University of Cape Town (RRSG))
        Slides
    • 09:00 10:30
      Parallel Session II - High-throughput supercomputing & performance testing (1) 115 (HUB)

      115

      HUB

      • 09:00
        Application of Data Intensive Science to the Electrical Energy Grid 20m
        Speakers: Mr Albert Dove (University of Witwatersrand) , Dr Ivan Hofsajer (University of Witwatersrand)
        Slides
      • 09:20
        ARM processors as a low cost alternative tool for computation of FFTs for radio astronomy 15m
        Speaker: Mr Mitchell Cox (University of the Witwatersrand)
        Slides
      • 09:35
        ATLAS GPU Trigger Studies 15m
        Speaker: Mr Timothy Bristow (University of Edinburgh)
        Slides
      • 09:50
        CPU Benchmarking performance for ARM Processors 15m
        Speaker: Mr Robert Reed (University of the Witwatersrand)
        Slides
      • 10:05
        RAM Benchmarking of ARM-based SoCs 15m
        Speakers: Mr Gerhard Harmsen (University of the Witwatersrand) , Mr Thomas Wrigley (University of the Witwatersrand)
        Slides
    • 10:31 10:59
      Coffee break 28m HUB 211

      HUB 211

      University of the Witwatersrand

      Wits Professional Development HUB 92 Empire Road, Braamfontein 2001, Johannesburg
    • 11:00 12:40
      Parallel Session III - High-throughput supercomputing & performance testing (2) 115 (HUB)

      115

      HUB

      • 11:00
        Performance Analysis of virtualization for high performance computing 20m
        Speaker: Mr Matthew Cawood (University of Cape Town)
        Slides
      • 11:20
        Massive Parallelism for Combinatorial Problems 15m
        Speaker: Mr Edward Steere (University of the Witwatersrand)
      • 11:35
        Optimising Linux Operating System on ARM Architecture 15m
        Speaker: Mr Jonathan Padavatan (Ithemba Labs)
        Slides
      • 11:50
        Likelihood Analysis of Higgs anomalous couplings 15m
        Speaker: Mr Gilad Amar (University of Witwatersrand)
        Slides
      • 12:05
        Massively Parallel High-Performance Ray-Tracing in Astrophysics Simulations 15m
        Speaker: Mr Warren Carlson (University of the Witwatersrand)
        Slides
    • 11:00 12:30
      Parallel Session IV - High-speed Signal Processing Platforms and Software 111 (HUB)

      111

      HUB

      • 11:00
        Noise Sensitivity of VHF Broadband Interferometers 20m
        Speaker: Mr Chih-Fong (Brady ) Wen (University of KwaZulu Natal)
      • 11:20
        LED Board for the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS Detector at the LHC 15m
        Speaker: Mr Titus Masike (University of the Witwatersrand)
        Slides
      • 11:35
        Prometeo, the next generation test-bench for the front-end electronics of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter upgrade phase-II 15m
        Speaker: Dr Xifeng Ruan (University of the Witwatersrand)
        Slides
      • 11:50
        An ATCA framework for the ATLAS Front to Back End Electronics for the Phase II Upgrade at the LHC 15m
        Speaker: Mr Robert Reed (University of the Witwatersrand)
        Slides
    • 14:00 17:00
      Hands-on Session IV 3rd Year Lab, School of Physics

      3rd Year Lab, School of Physics

      University of the Witwatersrand

      Wits Professional HUB 92 Empire Road Johannesburg

      RHINO/ROACH