Programme
Please note, all times are in CET (Central European Time)
| Monday, November 6 | ||
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Time |
Activity |
Speaker |
| 08:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00 | Welcome | Suzanne Ramsay Bogdan Jeram |
| 09:20 | Industry Keynote Speaker - AMD - Advancing Efficiency, an AMD Overview |
Matthew Foley |
| 09:50 | ESO Overview: Invited Talk: Next Generation Real Time Computers at ESO |
Marcos Suárez Valles (ESO) |
| 10:20 | ESO Overview: Invited Talk: RTC Toolkit - Overview and Status | Bogdan Jeram (ESO) |
| 10:50 | Coffee break | |
| 11:10 | CPU Platforms: Invited Talk: HEART System Architecture: A Brief Overview |
Malcolm Smith (Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics) |
| 11:40 |
CPU Platforms: HEART On-Sky Results and Soft-Realtime Functionality | Jennifer Dunn (Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics) |
| 12:00 | CPU Platforms: HEART build and test infrastructure |
Ed Chapin (Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics) |
| 12:20 | CPU Platform: ALPAO RTC Performances and new features | Bruno Martín (ALPAO) |
| 12:40 | CPU Platforms: Invited Talk: HRTCp: ELT-sized hard realtime core on common-off-the-shelf hardware |
Niels Hald Pederson (FORCE Technology) Poul-Henning Kamp |
| 13:10 | Lunch Break |
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| 14:10 | Industry Keynote Speaker - eProsima - Fast DDS - The middleware powering the ESO ELT | Jaime Martín Losa |
| 14:40 | ELT Projects: Invited Talk: MORFEO RTC status report |
Italo Foppiano (INAF-OAS) |
| 15:10 | ELT Projects: The SCAO module for ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT | Paolo Di Marcantonio (INAF-OAT) |
| 15:30 | VLT Projects: SPARTA Upgrade |
Pavel Shchekaturov (ESO) |
| 15:50 | VLT Projects: GRAVITY+ RTC design | Roderick Dembet (Observatoire de Paris - LESIA) |
| 16:10 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 | Non-ESO Projects: A Clustered Architecture of Real-Time Controller for 2.5-Meter Solar Telescope (WeHoST) GLAO System | Nanfei Yan (Institute of Optics and Electronics) |
| 16:50 | Non-ESO Projects: The Architecture of the MCAO Real-time Control Computer Cluster for the DKI Solar Telescope |
Dirk Schmidt (National Solar Observatory) |
| 17:10 | Non-ESO Projects: A CPU based Real-Time control system for Adaptive Optics in Free Space Optical Communications | Dailos Guerra Ramos (DLR) |
| 17:30 | End of day |
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| Tuesday, November 7 | ||
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Time |
Activity |
Speaker |
| 08:30 | Industry Keynote Speaker - NVIDIA - Accelerated Computing Infrastructure with NVIDIA | Pallavi Mohan |
| 09:00 | Industry Keynote Speaker - Microgate - FPGAs for flexible interfacing and distributed computational tasks |
Roberto Biasi |
| 09:30 | GPU Platforms: Invited Talk: COSMIC, an adaptable, powerful, proven RTC solution |
Damien Gratadour (Observatoire de Paris) |
| 10:00 | GPU Platforms: COSMIC: A Graph-Based, Extensible Framework for the Future of Adaptive Optics RTC development | Julien Bernard (ANU) |
| 10:20 | GPU Platforms: COSMIC SRTC : review and future plans |
Nicolas Doucet (ANU) |
| 10:40 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | GPU Platforms: High-performance low latency data acquisition for AO RTC | Julien Plante (Observatoire de Paris) |
| 11:20 |
GPU Platforms: Can we overcome the performance/portability tradeoff on GPU pipelines? |
Cyril Cetre (Thales Research & Technology) |
| 11:40 | Heterogenous Platforms: Durham Adaptive Optics (DAO) real-time controller | Sylvain Cetre (Durham University) |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
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| 13:00 | ELT Projects: Invited Talk: MICADO SCAO RTC: building the ELT first light RTC |
Florian Ferreira (Observatoire de Paris) |
| 13:30 | ELT Projects: Invited Talk: The METIS AO RTC at the beginning of MAIT | Martin Kulas (MPIA) |
| 14:00 | ELT Projects: Invited Talk: HARMONI's Adaptive Optics Control System: Design and Performance Update |
David Barr (Durham University) |
| 14:30 | VLT Projects: Entering the final design phase for the MAVIS RTC | Francois Rigaut (ANU) |
| 14:50 | Other ESO Projects: The CaNaPy RTC: towards pre-correction of the LGS beacon | David Jenkins (ESO) |
| 15:10 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 | Industry Keynote Speaker - Dell Technologies - Server technologies in the light of accelerated computing | Roland Kunz |
| 16:00 | Round Table Discussion: Q&A session with Dell representatives: Roland Kunz (Principal Systems Engineer for Emerging Technologies), Peter Dümig (Server Product Manager) | |
| 16:30 | Round Table Discussion: TBC | |
| 17:30 | End of Day | |
| Wednesday, November 8 | ||
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Time |
Activity |
Speaker |
| 08:30 | Industry Keynote Speaker - Graphcore - Intelligence Processing Unit, a novel architecture providing massive parallel computing capabilities | Gautier Soubrane |
| 09:00 | Industry Keynote Speaker - Intel - Intel technology update | Frank Kuypers (Intel Deutschland) |
| 09:30 | Machine Learning: Real-time multi-stage deep neural network control for SCExAO |
Bartomeu Pou (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) |
| 09:50 |
Machine Learning: PO4AO: XAO control with model-based reinforcement learning | Jalo Nousiainen (LUT University) |
| 10:10 | Machine Learning: Performance analysis of wavefront estimation using machine learning methods for real-time control | Jeffrey Smith (ANU) |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Algorithms: Matrix-free vs. matrix-based real-time reconstruction on CPU and GPU |
Bernadett Stadler (RICAM) |
| 11:20 |
Algorithms: Creating and Deploying the METIS Command Matrix |
Horst Steuer (MPIA) |
| 11:40 | Algorithms: Performance study on correlation methods for the new generation of solar telescopes | Nicolás Rodríguez (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias) |
| 12:00 | Algorithms: Predictive Control Schemes for Adaptive Optics in Free Space Optical Communication | Joana Torres (DLR) |
| 12:20 | Lunch Break |
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| 13:20 | Other Developments: Real-time pixel data processing from energy-resolving detectors |
David Barr (Durham University) |
| 13:40 | Other Developments: Ethernet packet time stamping techniques for real time performance assessment |
Thomas Grudzien Nicolas Benes |
| 14:00 | Other Developments: ELT WFRTC: Software patterns and library solutions for low latency multithreading | Calle Rosenquist (ESO) |
| 14:20 | Other Developments: Current status of the Adaptive Optics Telemetry standard | Tiago Gomes (Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto) |
| 14:40 | Coffee break | |
| 15:00 | Round Table Discussions continued |
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| 16:00 | Wrap-up and Closure: Feedback from audience and SOC: focus on future workshops, keeping the AO RTC community networked. |
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| 16:30 | End of day |
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