Technical workshop 2025 and hackathon

The 2025 edition of the ECLAT Technical Workshop and Hackathon brings together researchers, engineers, and partners to address the challenges of next-generation radio astronomy pipelines. Over five days, participants will discuss recent advances—from rapid prototyping and performance analysis to energy-constrained execution and data standardisation—while collaborating intensively during the hackathon. This event aims to strengthen collaborations and define the roadmap that will guide the development of tools and methodologies for the SKAO and future large-scale infrastructures.

Agenda

Hackathon, December 1 to 3

Technical workshop, first day: Wednesday, December 3

Slots Item Speakers
14h00-14h15 Introduction Atelier technique Damien GRATADOUR (CNRS, Observatoire de Paris)
14h15-14h45 Rapid Prototyping for Radio Astronomy Pipelines: From NenuFAR Experiments to Frequency-Aware SKAO-Scale Simulations Ophélie RENAUD (ENS Rennes, IRISA, SATIE)
14h45-15h15 HPC Software as a Service: A Data Logistics Approach with the DDF Pipeline as a Practical Case Study Deployment Mathis CERTENAIS (Irisa, Université de Rennes)
15h15 – 15h45 Evaluation of Model-Based Acceleration for Radio Astronomy Pipelines Mickaël DARDAILLON (IETR, Insa Rennes)
15h45 – 16h15 Coffee break
16h15-16h45 A Brief History of (Execution) Time – From Radio-Astronomy Pipeline Traces to Dataflow Models Karol DESNOS (IETR, Insa Rennes)
16h45-17h15 DDFacet I/O Analysis: Lessons Learned François TESSIER

 

Atelier technique, deuxième jour : jeudi 4 décembre

Slots Item Speaker
9h00-9h30 Exécution de DDFacet en environnement contraint en énergie Philippe COUVEE (Eviden)
9h30-10h00 Preparing for challenging observations with high z by SKA

Marwan DALAL (LAB Bordeaux)

 

10h00-10h30 TBC Nawel ARAB
10h30-11h00 Coffee Break
11h00-11h30 Pallas: performance analysis at scale François TRAHAY (Télécom Sud-Paris)
11h30 – 12h00 Automated reduction of interferometric data with the EXTRACT workflow orchestration Julien GIRARD (LIRA, Observatoire de Paris, ORN)
12h 00– 14h00 Lunch Break
14h00-14h30 Standardising interferometric data structures with xarray functionalities, including shared memory access Etienne BONNASSIEUX (LAB Bordeaux)
14h30-15h00 Collaboration ECLAT, SARAO, SETI, NVIDIA

Damien GRATADOUR

(CNRS, Observatoire de Paris)

15h00-15h30 Résolution de problèmes inverses en radio-interférométrie : de la modélisation à l’implémentation Yassine MHIRI (Université Savoie Mont Blanc)
15h30 – 16h00 Coffee Break
16h00-16h30 État des lieux du benchmark des pipelines SKAO Shan MIGNOT (OCA)
16h30-17h00 Apprentissage implicite profond d’algorithmes de Majoration Minimisation pour les problèmes inverses Myrian BARRAUD (L2S)
17h00-17h30 Résultats et conclusion du Hackathon Damien GRATADOUR (CNRS, Observatoire de Paris)

 

Atelier technique, premier jour : vendredi 5 décembre

Slots Item Speaker
9h00-11h30 Roadmapping & Breakout session All
11h30 – 12h00 Conclusion & Wrap up Damien GRATADOUR

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