Computing for SKA workshop - schedule

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1. COMPUTING for SKA workshop Thursday 27th February Friday 28th February 9:30 – 10:00 – Opening – John Raine – “SKA-1: Overview and Baseline Design” - Sergei Gulyaev - New Zealand 9:30 – 10:00 - Opening – Tim Natusch – New Zealand 10:00 – 10:40 – “Four key factors in computing for the Square Kilometre Array” - Tim Cornwell - UK – Keynote (video conference) 10:00 – 10:40 - “The Revolutionary Impact of CUDA 6.0 on multicore programming” Alex St. John - USA – New Zealand – Keynote 10:40 – 11:00 – Morning Tea 10:40 – 11:00 – Morning Tea 11:00 – 11:40 - “Defining Computing Speed: An Unsolved Challenge” - John Gustafson - USA- Keynote 11:00 – 11:40 – “SKA and the Economic Opportunities for New Zealand” - John Bancroft - UK – New Zealand – Keynote 11:40 – 12:10 – Andrew Ensor - New Zealand 11:40 – 12:10 – “Computing for SKA: Cray’s perspective” - Kent Winchell - USA 12:10 – 12:40 - Brent Carlson - Canada 12:10 – 12:40 - Andrew Ensor - New Zealand 12:40 – 1:40 Lunch 12:40 – 1:40 – Lunch 1:40 – 2:20 – “SKA – Scientific Nirvana or Data-led Revolution?” - John Humphreys - Australia 1:40 – 2:10 – “PowerMX: a flexible platform specification for signal processing” - Brent Carlson - Canada 2:20 – 3:05 – “Hunting Pulsars and Fast Transients with the SKA” - Ewan Barr - Australia 2:10 – 3:10 - Industry Presentations 3:05 – 3:30 – Afternoon Tea 3:10 – 3:30 Afternoon Tea 3:30 – 4:10 – “A Persistence Layer for the SKA Science Data Processor” - Andreas Wicenec - Australia 3:30 – 4:00 – “Extracting Value from Big Data” - Melanie Johnston-Hollitt - New Zealand 4:10 – 4:40 – Tim Cornwell – UK 4:00 – 4:30 –“Predictive data modeling of large and fast streams of spatio/spectro temporal data using neuromorphic computation” Nikola Kasabov - New Zealand 4:45 – Day One Closure 4:30 – 5:00 – “SKA Computing: Humans in the Loop?” Jasper Horrell - South Africa (video conference) 5:00 – 5:10 – Nicolas Erdody (Closure) 6:30 – 10:00 pm – Workshop Dinner