Plans underway for CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive

While commissioning continues with the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia, planning is now also underway for a core computing component – the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (CASDA).

The CASDA development team includes individuals from CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) and CSIRO Information Management and Technology (IM&T).

Though currently still in early stages, a main focus for CASDA is to get a more detailed understanding of the requirements, uses cases, workflows, architecture and design of the forthcoming ASKAP system.

This first stage of the project will continue until the end of 2013.

Added by Flornes Conway-Derley on 2013-09-06