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Description
The SKA Regional Centre network (SRCNet) is the federated, international layer that brings SKA data and analysis capabilities to researchers worldwide, providing access to data products, platforms near the data, and coordinated user support and training.  Within this framework, we present SRC-Italy (INAF) as a node based on INAF computing and storage resources hosted and integrated within CINECA’s HPC/cloud ecosystem at the Bologna Tecnopolo, aligning national capacity with a global, interoperable federation that is essential for Science Verification and the ramp-up to operations.
In this talk we outline what an SRC node is for—seamless user access, scalable analysis close to data, reliable data distribution and stewardship, and community enablement—then describe what Italy has been doing: contributing across international SRCNet development teams and holding leadership roles in visualization/deployment workstreams that have informed the v0.1 architecture and prototyping.
Nationally, we have established a dedicated implementation team (INAF, with CINECA as hosting/integration partner) to turn these designs into a working Italian node operated in CINECA’s production environment and opened to pilot use with pathfinder/precursor data ahead of SKA Science Verification (2027).
This contribution will discuss the framework of the SRCNet, how SRC-Italy fits organisationally and technically within CINECA, and what value scientists should expect during the pre-operations phase—complementing the detailed infrastructure status/roadmap and science-delivery talks that follow.
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