CYBERSKA
A Cyberinfrastructure platform to meet the needs of data intensive radio astronomy on route to the SKA |
Canadian funding for CyberSKA is provided by CANARIE as part of their Network Enabled Platforms (NEP-2) program. This page will be used to keep track of the progress of the project. Note that some links on this page have restricted access.
The goal of this project is to create the beginnings of an custom-designed cyberinfrastructure for collaborative e-research with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its pathfinders. The expected result is a working first version of the evolvable cyberinfrastructure that the SKA will require over its many forthcoming decades of project life to collect, store, analyze, re-use, and transform the unprecedented quantities of astrophysical data that will be collected by what will, in 2023, be the largest radio-telescope ever built. The project interfaces emerging and future network platform technologies with leading-edge data intensive science in the form of major radio survey programs that pathfind SKA science and techniques.