News & Announcements
Final results of the AENEAS project
The three-year H2020 project AENEAS “Advanced European Network of E-infrastructures for Astronomy with the SKA” ended on 31 December 2019. This week the final report was submitted to the EC, the closing review by a panel of experts appointed by the European Commission...
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A new treaty paves the way forward for the Square Kilometre Array
Representatives from the founding member states of the Square Kilometre Array gathered in Rome yesterday to sign a treaty establishing the SKA Observatory as an intergovernmental organization that will oversee the delivery and operation of the world's largest radio...
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A step closer to a comprehensive design for the European SKA Regional Center
The AENEAS team gathered at the University of Manchester last week for its 4th all-hands meeting. In addition to the usual project updates and presentations on regional center activities beyond Europe, much of the meeting was dedicated to focused discussions that...
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The AENEAS is a 3 year initiative funded by the Horizon 2020 program to develop a science-driven, functional design for a distributed, federated European Science Data Centre (ESDC) for the Square Kilometre Array.
AENEAS brings together all of the European SKA member states, SKA Organisation, European and global e-infrastructure providers and a larger group of international partners including the SKA site host countries.
While developing the design of the ESDC, AENEAS will leverage existing products, technologies, services, best practices and standards offered by European e-Infrastructures and integrated e-Infrastructures worldwide.
Unprecedented Data Volumes
The SKA observatory is expected to generate around 600 Petabytes of data products per year that will be distributed to a global network of regional data centers.
Data Analysis Paradigm Shift
The extreme data volumes of SKA data will require that astronomers use the distributed and federated services of the regional centers to access and analyse SKA data.
Open Data & Open Science
SKA data will be made open* and reusable to the global scientific community via the network of SKA regional center
* View current access policy for SKA (Section 4.3)
Print & Multimedia
View our brochure that sums up who we are and what we aim to achieve. Get in touch if you'd like one or more paper copies for yourself or your organization.
Check out this short video about AENEAS that was presented at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle.
View this short animation that depicts the possible sites for the SKA regional centers and how data will flow through this global network to reach astronomers around the world.
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EGI
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EPFL
CSIC
CNRS
AARNET
University of Cape Town
STFC
SNIC
Research Data Alliance
NWO
NRF
Max Plank Institute for Radio Astronomy
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IT
GRNET
CSIRO
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