Parallel sessions

Computing underpins scientific exploitation across Astronomy, UKSP and MIST community domains. In the UK, the STFC supports a range of infrastructures to enable both High Throughput Computing (HTC, e.g. GridPP) and High Performance Computing (e.g. DIRAC). The STFC IRIS digital research infrastructure provides seamless access to these and other (e.g. The Hartree Centre, The Ada Lovelace Centre) resources. This session will update the community on developments in IRIS and its partner infrastructure providers, highlighting the emerging scientific exploitation and data science opportunities opened up by access to massive scale computational resources. Presentations will include examples of IRIS supporting gravitational wave analysis, large radio surveys (e.g. e-MERLIN and ALMA), large optical imaging and spectroscopic surveys.

The session will discuss the importance of enhancing research software engineers career paths and diversity in keeping the UK at the forefront of data exploitation. Early stage researchers will be encouraged to present their results from IRIS facilities. The session will act as a ‘on-ramp’ for the community in accessing IRIS resources and thus enhance their science results.

The session is organised by representatives of major projects involved in the IRIS initiative (https://www.iris.ac.uk/about-iris/partners/).

The session will be of special interest to PhD and early stage researchers.

Schedule:

09:30 James Perry “Exploiting IRIS Infrastructure for the Rubin Dark Energy Science Collaboration's Data Challenge #2”

09:40 Dominic Ford “Discovery with IRIS in Cambridge”

09:50 Miguel Cárcamo “HTC for Cosmic Magnetism studies in the SKA-era”

09:55 Quentin Changeat “Large scale atmospheric studies of exoplanet populations”

10:00 Danielle Fenech “PERCIVAL: Platform Enabling Radio Calibration & Imaging Via Access portaL”

10:15 Mark Wilkinson “Priorities for future development of the STFC/UKRI supported digital research infrastructure (Discussion)”