Italy and in particular INAF played a very important role in the design and development of SKA-low, with a working group that includes colleagues from INAF, CNR-IEIIT, UNIBO, UNFI and Politecnico di Torino. participated in all phases of the project from its conception in 2002 to today.
INAF’s participation in the various consortia started with SKADS, in which the embryonic ideas of the...
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is too large to be managed with simple approaches and tools, due to the ensemble of interacting hardware and software which make the control and monitor task extremely complex. We have now identified the right tools to solve this task, and the current challenge is to find the smartest strategies to implement the whole SKA project by using those...