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Abstract: A number of new tools have been developed
or adopted to deal with MeerKAT data at the Inter-University Institute
for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA), Cape Town. I will present a
number of these tools, including those for processing, visualisation,
and data transfer, giving hands on demonstrations where possible. One
particular focus will be the IDIA MeerKAT pipeline, a fully automated
end-to-end, full Stokes CASA-based pipeline that is efficient,
flexible, scalable, and user-friendly, having been widely tested and
documented. Our unique setup uses an IDIA cloud-based platform running
on hardware provided by the ilifu national facility, taking advantage
of cluster-level parallelism, resource management and software
containers. Altogether this represents a pathfinder science regional
data centre, and a good framework for solving many of the broader
challenges of the SKA. I will also present an update on recent MeerKAT
data and operations, with a particular focus on the MIGHTEE project.
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