Description
Organiser: Nicholas Walton; co organisers: George Beckett, Louise Chisholm, Jon Hays, Anna Scaife, John Veitch, Mark Wilkinson
Computing and specialist technical skills underpin scientific exploitation across the Astronomy, UKSP, MIST community domains. STFC supports a range of infrastructures to enable High Throughput Computing (HTC, e.g. GridPP) and High Performance Computing (e.g. DiRAC). STFCโs IRIS (https://www.iris.ac.uk) digital research infrastructure (DRI) provides seamless access to these and other (e.g. The Hartree Centre, AIRR) resources.
This session will update the community on developments in IRIS and its partner infrastructure providers (e.g. DiRAC), highlighting the emerging scientific exploitation and data science opportunities opened up by access to massive scale computational and AI resources. Presentations will include examples of IRIS supporting gravitational wave analysis, large radio surveys (e.g. SKA), theoretical computational modelling, large optical imaging (e.g. Vera Rubin Observatory) spectroscopic surveys (e.g. 4MOST) and space (e.g. Gaia, Euclid, PLATO). The session will include discussion of how users can access IRIS resources through their particular project joining IRIS, providing detail on the opportunities to enhance their science.
The session will discuss the importance of enhancing research software engineer career paths and diversity in keeping the UK at the forefront of data exploitation. The session will also give the opportunity to discuss initiatives aimed at reducing the carbon impact of DRIs.
Early stage researchers, in particular, are encouraged to present their science enabled by use of IRIS facilities.
The session is organised by representatives of major projects involved in the IRIS initiative (https://www.iris.ac.uk/about-iris/partners/), and follows our successful AstroComp sessions that we have organised at the NAM 22, 23 and 24 meetings.
This presentation will discuss how the STFC IRIS digital research infrastructure is supporting a wide range of astrophysics projects. A status update will be provided, along with examples of use by projects such as WEAVE.
The UK Square Kilometre Array Regional Centre (UKSRC)
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is set to revolutionise radio astronomy. The SKA Regional Centre Network (SRCNet) will develop and deploy a collaborative and federated network of SKA Regional Centres, globally distributed across SKA partner countries, to host the SKA science archive and analysis services. The SRCNet will make data...
At the University of Cambridge, hardware resources provided via the IRIS collaboration form an essential part in the data processing activity for two ESA science missions. For the Gaia mission, the core photometric processing recently migrated entirely to cloud infrastructure provided through IRIS. Using Apache Spark based distributed processing to characterize and calibrate the photometry and...
The European Space Agencyโs Euclid mission, launched to map the geometry of the dark Universe, aims to uncover the nature of dark energy and dark matter by measuring the shapes, redshifts, and clustering of galaxies over a third of the sky. Euclidโs Visible Imaging Channel (VIS) will provide deep, high-resolution imaging essential for precision cosmology.
The UKโs national computing...
We present the COSMA supercomputer which has a bespoke design optimised for computational cosmology. We discuss the ongoing hardware prototyping facilities and the access available for users, and likely future updates to this system, and how these will feed into the design of future COSMA systems.
I will describe the current status of the UKRI AI Research Resource (AIRR)
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