CanDIAPL Infrastructure

 

CanDIAPL will build several key pieces of infrastructure to enable scientific discovery with these large telescopes:

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• Computing Infrastructure at the site of the MeerKAT SKA pathfinder to access and efficiently transfer science-ready data to Canada

• Detectors as part of the Murchison Widefield Array, another key SKA pathfinder

• Cloud Computing Infrastructure in Canada, within the Digital Research Alliance to enhance capacity to process, store and serve science-ready data to Canadian researchers

• “Realtime Analysis” Software infrastructure to identify and classify time-critical astrophysical events in novel ways in ‘real time’ that enable discovery and rapid follow-up

• “Dynamic Datasets” Software infrastructure to automatically process data from the static sky and enable dynamic queries of dynamic, rapidly-changing databases

• “Multi-messenger Portal” Software Infrastructure to connect data across CanDIAPL and serve it to Canadian researchers through a single access interface

 

The expert CanDIAPL team will leverage this infrastructure to understand the physics of cosmic explosions and the transient universe, and to reveal the interplay between galaxies, gas and dark matter.