AstroTechTalk – att

The AstroTechTalk (ger) offers a place to discuss, for all interested colleagues and especially for the technical departments, the project leaders, the administration and the scientists as the ultimately users:

status of instrumentation projects
scientific tasks and features of the instruments in construction or planned
new possible involvements
technical innovations and developments
technical problems and their solutions
logistical problems and their solutions
how to improve operation and observation
project standards.

New Time: Always Mondays 15:00 - 16:00

Location: Hybrid -> MPIA Hoersaal + Video-Link

Link: https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/62627094341?pwd=SzlxYVJPNFgrZEdKVVpHS2xNbENTdz09

Outline:

Announcements (news, visitors, etc.) (mainly in German)
Talk of about 30 min about a selected topic (German or English, will be announced)
Follow up discussion and questions (German or English, depending on the speaker)

Proposals for talks: Please send an email to "huber -at- mpia.de" or "naranjo -at- mpia.de" - alternatively you might reach us by phone (06221-528331 or -290) or in person (room 111 or 018) at MPIA.

Date	Speaker	Topic
25.09.2023	Hugo Coppejans	Accelerated computing using GPUs with applications in Adaptive Optics for METIS SCAO Astronomy has always been a data driven field, but as telescopes become more advanced, the amount of data is growing at an unprecedented rate. The Single-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (SCAO) subsystem for METIS, a first light instrument for the upcoming Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) telescope, generates more than 20TB of data every night. To be able to parse all of this data, accelerated computing is crucial. This talk will give an overview and delve a bit deeper into accelerated computing using GPUs, and how it will be used to operate the adaptive optics (AO) system for METIS at the ELT. This talk will focus on explaining GPU-accelerated coding while giving real examples of how it is being used in our AO prototype. Presentation: English Slides: English Questions: German, English
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09.10.2023	Institutional Review
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06.11.2023
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04.12.2023
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18.12.2023
25.12.2023	Holiday	Christmas