Plans for building a prototype SKA regional centre in India
Yogesh Wadadekar, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Abhirup Datta, Surajit Paul, and Divya Oberoi

TL;DR
This paper discusses the plan to build a proto-SKA regional centre in India to support data analysis, processing, and simulation for SKA-related projects, leveraging Indian involvement with SKA pathfinders.
Contribution
It presents the design considerations, technological plans, and strategic approach for establishing India's proto-SKA regional centre, focusing on data handling, hardware evaluation, and software development.
Findings
Initial design concepts for storage, compute, and network infrastructure.
Plans for evaluating emerging hardware and software technologies.
Strategies for software development and data analysis support.
Abstract
In order to deliver the full science potential of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope, several SKA Regional Centres (SRCs) will be required to be constructed in different SKA member countries around the world. These SRCs will provide high performance compute and storage for the generation of advanced science data products from the basic data streams generated by the SKA Science Data Handling and Processing system, critically necessary to the success of the key science projects to be carried out by the SKA user community. They will also provide support to astronomers to enable them to carry out analysis on very large SKA datasets. Construction of such large data centres is a technical challenge for all SKA member nations. In such a situation, each country plans to construct a smaller SRC over the next few years (2022 onwards), known as a proto-SRC. In India, we propose to…
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TopicsRadio Astronomy Observations and Technology
