SKA shakes hands with Summit

TL;DR

This paper reports on the successful execution of the SKA Phase 1 data processing workflow on the Summit supercomputer, demonstrating multidisciplinary collaboration and computational capability for SKA data analysis.

Contribution

It presents a full-scale data processing workflow for SKA Phase 1 executed on Summit, highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary cooperation.

Findings

Successful execution of SKA data processing on Summit

Demonstrates the feasibility of large-scale SKA data analysis

Highlights the need for multidisciplinary collaboration

Abstract

Recently, a full-scale data processing workflow of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Phase 1 was successfully executed on the world's fastest supercomputer Summit, proving that scientists have the expertise, software tools and computing resources to process the SKA data. The SKA-Summit experiment shows the importance of multidisciplinary cooperation between astronomy, computer science and others communities. The SKA science cannot be achieved without the joint efforts of talents from multiple fields.