[Baps] Fwd: SIPB CLUEDUMP: W May 25 7p 4-231 The Allen Telescope Array

[Benjamin Weiss]

All
Please take a note...

Ben

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Subject: 	SIPB CLUEDUMP: W May 25 7p 4-231 The Allen Telescope Array
Date: 	Fri, 20 May 2016 16:20:40 -0400
From: 	Lenny Foner <foner at media.mit.edu>
To: 	bpweiss at mit.edu, bmilardo at mit.edu



Hi all,

Please join us next week, on Wednesday, May 25 at 7pm in 4-231, for
a special Cluedump by Colby Gutierrez-Kraybill about a really unusual
real world computational and scientific system:

The Allen Telescope Array:
(still) The First Widefield, Panchromatic, Snapshot Radio Camera for
Radio Astronomy and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Snacks will be served!

Abstract:  The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) has been producing science
data since 2007 at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory (HCRO).  The
instrument was noted as a significant path finder for technologies
that are currently being incorporated into the Square Kilometer Array
designs.  Built to aggressively save on costs for the front end
antenna design with multiple signal paths, the ATA was designed to
have different generations of processing backends, including large
scale computer clusters as well as purpose built FX correlators,
beamforming elements, and one-off experimental computational systems.
Originally designed and built by the Radio Astronomy Laboratory at the
University of California, Berkeley, working with the SETI Institute,
the instrument is now operated by SRI International and the SETI
Institute.

Bio:  Colby Gutierrez-Kraybill is a software engineer and systems
administrator.  He was part of the original team that built the ATA,
working as the lead software developer for the Radio Astronomy
Laboratory at UC Berkeley from 2001-2011.  From 2011-2012 he was the
onsite operations manager at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory for SRI
International.  He and his family moved to HCRO in 2008 and lived on
site until 2012.  He now works at the MIT Media Lab on large scale web
based systems for the Lifelong Kindergarten and NeCSys groups.

For more information, or if you'd like to give a Cluedump, please
contact us at cluedumps at mit.edu.  To see prior Cluedumps, some of
which have supplementary information, see http://cluedumps.mit.edu/.
Add Cluedumps to your calendar at https://sipb.mit.edu/calendar/.

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