The SKA Regional Centres (SRC) are expected to provide essential functions like computational capacity for data reprocessing and science analysis, provision of a SKA Science Archive and local user support. The SRC Steering Commettee (SRCSC) is currently operating to define and create a long term operational partnership between the SKA Observatory and an ensemble of independently resourced...
New developments in data analysis and visualization are nowadays critical to deal with the increased size and complexity of SKA and precursor data. Such efforts should be oriented to enable extraction of science information from the data in a mostly automated way, possibly exploiting the capabilities offered by modern computing infrastructures. In this context, looking at the experiences...
With the advent of the SKA and other exascale science facilities, data storage and data visualisation present the scientific community with new challenges. The Inter-University Institute for Data-Intensive Astronomy (IDIA) Visualisation Lab at the University of Cape Town (https://vislab.idia.ac.za) is thus exploring new approaches to handle the exploration and detailed interrogation of...
The Ilifu cloud computing facility is a data intensive research facility developed by the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA) and whose main aim is to facilitate the reduction and the scientific exploitation of MeerKAT data. Ilifu not only supports the data reduction of most MeerKAT Large Survey Projects and Open Time Projects but also provides a platform to...
Building a regional center for SKA poses a number of challenges that are revolving around the core of the business, namely the data products that will be made available from the SKAO facilities in South Africa and Australia. There are different scenarios that involve present and future infrastructure, software and hardware bottlenecks that will be discussed in order to provide an in-depth...
