It’s official: AusSRC now a joint venture
The joint venture agreement was officially signed off in September 2023, an important milestone in the history of the AusSRC.
Held at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, a signing ceremony took place on 22 October 2023, with members of the SKAO Council, Partners of the AusSRC and the broader Australian & international astronomy community in attendance.
Reaching for the stars
Stargirls STEM Camp ran from the 23rd to 25th January, where female and non-binary high school students can be inspired by industry leading women scientists working in astronomy, engineering, and data sciences. Dr Karen Lee-Waddell, Director of the AusSRC, is one such frontrunner of the astronomy and data sciences in Australia.
AusSRC hosts key stakeholders event
Off the back of the SKA Construction Commencement Ceremony in early December, the AusSRC hosted a Key Stakeholders Event. Held in the fancy new interactive space at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, the event was attended by around 30 guests from local, interstate, and overseas.
AusSRC Design Study Program Concludes
A final report that provides an overview of the AusSRC DSP along with a summary of the technical developments achieved by the team while working on various science projects can be found here.
AusSRC makes marble-ous networks at Astrofest 2022
In October, AusSRC held its first ever Perth Astrofest stall, with an activity showing how data will flow from the SKA-Low in the Murchison to other SRCs around the world – in the form of a marble race!
Lightning fast: Birli in action
Birli is the Wajarri word for ‘lightning’, a common cause of outages on the MWA site. Birli is the next generation MWA pre-processing pipeline which is now feature complete.
Introducing the Australian SKA Regional Centre
Based at ICRAR and CSIRO in Perth, the Australian SKA Regional Centre (shortened to AusSRC, “Oz-S.R.C.”) is the Australian contingent of an international network of SKA Regional Centres. These Centres will be a global computing and data delivery network that will provide the connection between the SKA telescopes and the science community.
SKA 101: Australia’s involvement
SKA 101: Australia’s involvement Australia will host the SKA Observatory’s low frequency telescope (SKA-Low). SKA-Low will comprise an array of 131,072 ‘Christmas tree-shaped’ antennas, grouped in 512 stations, each with 256 antennas. The antenna stations will span out along three spiral arms, stretching 65 kilometres end to end. SKA-Low will be located at CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy […]
Seasons Greetings from the AusSRC team
The end of year has quickly rolled around for the Australian SKA Regional Centre (AusSRC). A unique challenge of the AusSRC is that staff work at different Partner Institution locations, meaning face to face gatherings with all employees present can be rare. The team congregated at the UWA node of ICRAR (International Centre for Radio […]
$63 Million for WA to process signals from the dawn of time
The federal government will invest $63 million to establish a centre in Perth to process and analyse data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope. A global collaboration of 16 countries, the SKA will be one of the world’s largest science facilities, exploring the entire history and evolution of the Universe, and uncovering advances […]