Programme & Presentations

Computational and Technological Challenges of LOFAR

Programme

Thursday, December 15th, 2005
Central Institute for Applied Mathematics, Hörsaal (Lecture room)

13:00	Registration, snacks & coffee in ZAM Foyer, 1st floor, "old" building
14:00	Opening Session Thomas Lippert, Research Centre Jülich
14:15	Introduction to LOFAR Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar, University of Bochum
14:45	The Initial LOFAR Key Science Projects Heino Falcke, ASTRON
15:10	Key Science Projects and Science Network in Germany Rainer Beck, MPI for Radioastronomy Bonn
15:35	LOFAR System Overview Kjeld van der Schaaf, ASTRON
16:00	Coffee break
16:30	LOFAR Station System Andre Gunst, ASTRON
16:55	Cosmic Ray Detection Lars Bähren, ASTRON
17:20	LOFAR Networks Peter Maat, ASTRON
17:45	X-WiN - an Infrastructure for High Performance Applications Martin Wilhelm, DFN-Verein, Berlin
18:10	AstroGrid - a Community Project of the German e-Science Programme Matthias Steinmetz, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam
18:45	End of session
18:50	Bus transfer to Burg Obbendorf
19:00	Conference Dinner at Burg Obbendorf at Hambach
22:00	Bus transfer to the hotels at Jülich

Friday, December 16th, 2005

08:00	Bus transfer from the hotels to Research Centre Jülich
08:30	Grid-enabling LOFAR: a grid-based approach to post processing and data archiving Peter-Paul Borsboom, SARA, Amsterdam
08:55	A dCache based Storage Element for Data Grids Boris Orth, Research Centre Jülich
09:20	LOFAR Central Processing Facility Chris Broekema, ASTRON
09:45	Scalability and BlueGene/L Arnold Meijster, University of Groningen
10:10	SCSQ, SuperComputer Stream Queries - an Implementation of a Stream Data Management System for BlueGene Erik Zeitler, University of Uppsala
10:35	Coffee break
11:05	N-Body Simulation - an Example for High Performance Computing and Visualization Andreas Ernst, Research Centre Jülich / University of Heidelberg
11:30	Distributed, Interactive Visualization, Feature Detection and Collaboration Ulrich Lang, University of Cologne
11:55	A Process Coordinator for the Planck-Satellite Hans-Martin Adorf, MPI für Astrophysik, Garching
12:20	High Throughput Data Processing and Analysis Services Toolkit for LOFAR Rainer Stotzka, Research Centre Karlsruhe
12:45	Closing remarks
13:00	End of the workshop

Shuttle service to the closest train stations can be arranged. Please contact the workshop secretary:

Mrs. Erika Wittig
Conference Service
Research Centre Jülich
D-52428 Jülich

Phone: +49 (0)2461 61 3833
Fax: +49 (0)2461 61 5333
E-Mail: e.wittig@fz-juelich.de