ASKAIC

ASKAIC is the Australian Square Kilometre Array Industry Consortium. The consortium assumes a strategic role for industry to collaborate to support ASKAP development and win the SKA for the region.

iVEC is a member of ASKAIC, in the role of representing Western Australian SMEs at the national level. This gives local industry a central voice to collaborate with interstate companies, as well as research and government organisations.

News

Mar 2010. The tender for Pawsey Stage 1B has been released, closing Apr 21st 2011. See the Austender website.

Sep 2010. Slides from the iVEC briefing for industry on the Pawsey Centre are available from the iVEC website.

Sep 2010. ASKAP Technical Update Issue 6 is available.

Jun 2010. The iVEC Pawsey Centre Team is on board. Details of the team members are available in the iVEC June newsletter.

Jun 2010. The Federal Government has announced $47.3 million in funding for renewable energy use for the Murchison Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Pawsey Centre. The Pawsey Centre component will explore the use of hot deep aquifers for cooling supercomputers. Full details in Minister Carr's press release.

May 2010. ICRAR has received $4.6 million of additional funding for the

Jun 2010. The latest iVEC ICT Industry Astronomy Update has been released.

May 2010. ASKAP Technical Update Issue 5 is available.

May 2010. ICRAR has received $4.6 million of additional funding for the Murchison Widefield Array. Full details in the ICRAR press release.

Mar 2010. Australian company Sapphicon Semiconductor Pty Ltd was selected by CSIRO to jointly develop a radio receiver on a chip.

Mar 2010. ASKAP Technical Update Issue 4 is available.

Mar 2010. The first ASKAP antenna at Boolardy Station received its first signal.

Feb 2010. The Request for Tender to lay approximately 380km of optical fibre between Geraldton and Boolardy has been announced.

Jan 2010. The tender for a new cluster at iVEC has been announced on AusTender. Search for Pawsey or CSIRORFT2009074 on their website.

Dec 2009. ASKAP Technical Update Issue 3 is available.

Nov 2009. Presentations from the ICT industry briefing on Nov 25th 2009 are available.

Sep 2009. ASKAP Technical Update Issue 2 is available.

10 July 2009. A workshop was held at CSIRO ATNF about ASKAP technical computing. Slides are available from the documents page.

29 May 2009. A research industry workshop was held in Sydney on 29 May. Slides from some of the presentations are available.

12 May 2009. The federal government announced $80.0 million for the Australian National Centre of SKA Science in Perth. The money will go towards a facility for high performance computing and associated expertise, for space and other high end science. Link to the media release.

Mailing List

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