CanDIAPL Infrastructure

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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

 

In addition to this physical infrastructure, as part of CanDIAPL we are building software infrastructure to enable science with the data from these large telescopes.

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We will build a Multi-messenger portal which will integrate “alerts” from telescopes like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, gravitational wave detectors such as the GWIN consortium and radio transients from SKA pathfinders like MeerKAT with datasets and observations of galaxies and objects that are ‘static’ in the sky, but where the data builds up over time as telescopes like the MWA and MeerKAT measure their properties with increasing depth and sensitivity.

 

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.