The Canadian Data-Intensive Astrophysics PLatform (CanDIAPL)

Humankind’s ability to observe the sky has always been driven by technology. New facilities like the Vera C. Rubin telescope and ASKAP, MeerKAT, the precursors to the Square Kilometer Array, will soon allow us to monitor the sky in nearly real-time, generating massive digital databases that researchers can mine to further our understanding of stars, gas, galaxies and dark matter.

 

The Canadian Data-Intensive Astrophysics PLatform (CanDIAPL) is a Canadian infrastructure project funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) CanDIAPL will build a powerful cloud computing centre to process the millions of gigabytes of raw data from Rubin and SKA’s pathfinders, and the development of specialised software to process telescope data into manageable data.