The ICRAR DIA team, located at the Centre's UWA node, is comprised of researchers from astronomy and industry who have been involved and led the development of data and operations systems for billion-Euro astronomical infrastructure in Europe and South America as well as industry projects in various domains. The team is involved in many, very diverse projects, including
The Science Data Processor Consortium of the Square Kilometre Array.
- Eridanus
- The CHILES project
- The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA)
- The ASKAPDINGO survey project
- The ASKAPWALLABY survey project
- The International Virtual Observatory Alliance
As part of these projects we are developing software and systems as well as expert systems (machine learning) and also provide support for operational systems, including the in-house ICRAR compute lab and the 20+PB MWA archive. We are also very heavy users of the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre as well as a number of other supercomputers around the world.
We do have a quite active group of students, which range from summer students, over Masters to PhD students and are always open to discuss new ideas and trends in computer science and astronomical data reduction and software. In addition we run training, industry and science workshops both in-house and externally and attend in general public outreach activities.