C803: Cloud Data Processing for the Event Horizon Telescope

Monday Plenary 3: Contributed talk

When

2:30 – 2:45 p.m., Nov. 6, 2023

Where

Theme: Cloud infrastructures for astronomical data analysis

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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a heterogeneous Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) array that captures horizon-scale resolution images of black holes, utilizes the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to process its data and construct its images. Using cloud-native technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, the collaboration was able to scale its analyses and process its data with bit-to-bit reproducibility. In this talk, I will briefly overview EHT's data pathway, describe how GCP was used by the collaboration, and address some technical challenges and their resolutions. I will also outline the future plans for the EHT computing infrastructure and data processing pipelines.

Contacts

Chi-kwan Chan, University of Arizona