Dome Symposium
New Foundations for a Smart Society
18 - 19 May 2017
WELCOME
Albert-Jan Boonstra, ASTRON
Dome Project:
ASTRON & IBM-Nl/ZRL
The Dome Project
ASTRON
 Aim: to develop exascaletechnologies for the next
generation radio telescope,
the Square Kilometre Array
 Pogramme for 5 years
fundamental research,
2012-2017
DOME
Sensitivity challenge
Sensitivity
Field of View
Cf. Engbersen 2013
The next generation:
the Square Kilometre Array
 The data collected by the SKA in a single day would take nearly two million years to playback on an ipod.
 The SKA central computer will have the processing power of about one hundred million PCs.
 The aperture arrays in the SKA could produce more than 100 times the global internet traffic.
The Dome project
Research streams…
Sustainable
Computing
power reduction in
processing extremely
large amounts of data.
Nanophotonics
power reduction of data
transport over long distances
& inside computing machines
Data & Streaming
process data on-the-fly
and store data at a high
efficiency for later use
…are mapped to research projects:
System Analysis
Algorithms & Machines (P1)
Computing
- Microservers (P4)
- Accelerators (P5)
Transport
- Nanophotonics (P3)
- Real-Time Communications (P7)
- Compressive Sampling / Novel
Algorithms (P6)
Storage
- Access Patterns (P2)
Dome Users Platform
Goal:
 Strengthen SME’s
 Prepare for a role in SKA
development and next generation
data-centres
Partners:
 Scientific partners: 16
 Company / SME partners: 14
Partners active in all workstreams
Dome Big Bang Big Data projects
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TUDelft, prof. Alle-Jan van der Veen, Shahrzad Naghibzadeh,
“data reduction and image formation for future radio telescopes”
CWI, prof. Martin Kersten, Bart Scheers,
“Efficient databases”
UTwente, dr. Andre Kokkeler, Ghayoor Gillani,
“Energy efficient chips and digital systems”
UvA, prof. Max Welling, Patrick Putzky,
“Machine learning in imaging”.
U.Leiden, prof. Huub Rottgering, Alexander Mechev, Huib Intema,
“Wide field ionospheric calibration”.
 Users Platform partners
Programme 18 May
“science –day”
09:00
Welcome by day chairman
Albert-Jan Boonstra, ASTRON
The New Computing Era: Tackling the Computing Complexity Barrier
09:15
Views on the future of computing and science
data centres
Thomas Sterling, Director CREST
09:45
SKA & beyond Moore's law, a forward look
Ton Engbersen, IBM
10:00
Architecture modelling
Gero Dittmann, IBM
10:15
Break - coffee/tea + demos
Smart Algorithms
10:45
The SKA SDP signal processing
Ronald Nijboer, ASTRON
11:05
Data Reduction and Image Formation for
Future Radio Telescopes
Shahrzad Naghibzadeh, TU Delft
11:25
Machine learning in radio astronomy imaging
Patrick Putzky, Universiteit van
Amsterdam
11:45
Novel algorithmic approaches in radio
astronomy
Paul Hurley, IBM
12:15
Lunch + demos
Programme 18 May
“science –day”
Novel Architecture Foundations
13:15
Data driven architecture for SDP
Chris Broekema, ASTRON
13:35
Efficient photonic data transport
Peter Maat, ASTRON
13:55
Hardware accelerator approaches
John Romein, ASTRON
14:15
Realtime communication
Chris Broekema, ASTRON
14:35
Break - coffee/tea + demos
Smart Data Science Processing
15:00
Science data centre challenges
Michael Wise, ASTRON
15:20
Low frequency radio survey
processing / TGSS
Huib Intema, Universiteit van Leiden
15:40
Science data centre modelling
Yan Grange, ASTRON
National Science Agenda
16:00
Route Big Data
Wilco Hazeleger, director Netherlands eScience Centre
17:00
Conclusion followed by nibbles, drinks, networking