Operations Planning Meeting Agenda
In preparation for the SKA Engineering Meeting, the Operations Planning Team led by Prof. Gary Davis will discuss previous work, big issues, current work, operations concept, data flow, and future tasks. Topics include operational principles, SKA Observatory's purpose and expected lifetime, access principles, and challenges such as late start in planning, organizational structure, hosting arrangements, role of regional centers, big data management, reliability, maintenance, budget, and integration experiences.
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Planning for Operations SKA Engineering Meeting 2015 Prof. Gary Davis 10thNovember 2015
The Operations Planning Team Corrie Taljaard Engineering Operations Antonio Chrysostomou Science Operations Gary Davis Director
The Operations Planning Team Director General Head of Project Director of Ops Planning team team
Outline Previous work The big issues Current work Operations concept Operations plan Data flow Future work
Previous Work Concept of Operations Operations Working Group (chaired by Douglas Bock) Rev 02 issued May 2015
Previous Work Operational Principles Approved 25th July 2013 Amended 29th October 2013
Previous Work Operational Principles 3. The purpose of the SKA Observatory will be to enable scientists to pursue world-leading scientific programmes, to organise and conduct improvements and upgrades of the SKA telescopes in order to provide and maintain facilities that are at the forefront of science and technology, and to ensure the protection of the SKA sites for the SKA and future radio telescopes.
Previous Work Operational Principles 6. The expected lifetime of the SKA Observatory is 50 years.
Previous Work Access Principles based on scientific merit single time-allocation process proportional to contribution limited access for non-member states data products to be made globally available after a suitable proprietary period policy to be defined in detail
The Big Issues Late start to operations planning Structure of the organisation Hosting arrangements in AUS/RSA Role of Regional Centres Challenge of Big Data Reliability & maintenance Power Operations budget Precursors: integration of MeerKAT and operational experience
Current Work Operational Model support both large, multi-year programmes (KSPs) and conventional PI projects 24-hour operation; service observing; automated, flexible observing queue observing factory ToOs and transients; subarrays and commensality high level of user support on-the-fly maintenance and repair RFI constraints; minimal staff on site
Current Work Logistics Engineering availability requirement: >95% capacity for >90% of the time modelling of failure modes and reliability to inform maintenance plan and staffing requirements RAM report and FMECA reports are CDR deliverables two new draft documents to be issued imminently: Support Concept RAM Allocations RAM/ILS Modelling and Maintenance Planning Wed 13:30
Current Work Operations Concept Document to describe operational model to specify additional Level-1 requirements from the operations perspective draft to be issued soon for comment input from design consortia welcome Operations Concept Review planned Q1 2016 approval of new requirements through ECP process
Current Work Operations Plan Contents: Operational model Structure of the organisation Staffing Budget For presentation to the Board along with Construction Proposal (Jan 2018)
Structure of the Organisation Unique challenge globally-distributed project return on investment no perfect solution Status discussed at Board in July going to Board next week for approval Context steady-state operations SKA1 designed, built, commissioned and fully operational (2023 on current planning) assume IGO is in place
Structure of the Organisation Some relevant principles: The SKA is one observatory and must present a single, seamless interface to the user community. the one observatory model The structure should be designed to optimise the operation. Duplication of staff should be minimised. Common functions should be based at the GHQ. CSIRO and SKA-SA will have built up experience of operating telescopes on the two sites; SKA must retain access to this experience.
Structure of the Organisation SKA Observatory Observatory Operations Corporate Functions Development Programme
Structure of the Organisation SKA Observatory Observatory Operations Corporate Functions Development Programme SKAO AUS Office GHQ SKAO RSA Office
Structure of the Organisation SKA Observatory Observatory Operations Corporate Functions Development Programme AUS Operator RSA Operator SKAO AUS Office GHQ SKAO RSA Office Site & engineering operations Site & engineering operations Science operations
Structure of the Organisation SKA Observatory Observatory Operations Corporate Functions Development Programme AUS Operator RSA Operator SKAO AUS Office GHQ SKAO RSA Office Science Processing Centre Science Processing Centre
Structure of the Organisation SKA Observatory Data centres Development centres Observatory Operations Corporate Functions Development Programme AUS Operator RSA Operator SKAO AUS Office GHQ SKAO RSA Office Science Processing Centre Science Processing Centre
Structure of the Organisation Non-host Members UK AUS RSA SKA Council SKA Observatory Data centres Development centres Observatory Operations Corporate Functions Development Programme AUS Operator RSA Operator SKAO AUS Office GHQ SKAO RSA Office Science Processing Centre Science Processing Centre
Structure of the Organisation Non-host Members UK AUS RSA SKA Council SKA Observatory Data centres Development centres Observatory Operations Corporate Functions Development Programme AUS Operator RSA Operator RSA Site Entity AUS Site Entity SKAO AUS Office GHQ SKAO RSA Office Science Processing Centre Science Processing Centre
Structure of the Organisation Non-host Members UK AUS RSA SKA Council UK Site Entity SKA Observatory Data centres Development centres Observatory Operations Corporate Functions Development Programme AUS Operator RSA Operator RSA Site Entity AUS Site Entity SKAO AUS Office GHQ SKAO RSA Office Science Processing Centre Science Processing Centre
Structure of the Organisation Non-host Members UK AUS RSA SKA Council UK Site Entity SKA Observatory Data centres Development centres Observatory Operations Corporate Functions Development Programme AUS Operator RSA Operator RSA Site Entity AUS Site Entity SKAO AUS Office GHQ SKAO RSA Office Science Processing Centre Science Processing Centre
Operations Budget Strategy bottom-up approach opex estimate was a PDR deliverable from consortia designs should minimise whole-life costs additional costs to be estimated PDR-level estimate to be presented to Board in April 2016 updates to every subsequent Board meeting final, CDR-level estimate will be presented to Board for approval along with Construction Proposal (January 2018) Budget team me, Douglas Bock (AUS), Adrian Tiplady (RSA)
Current Work Operational Principles 20. The SKA Observatory will calibrate SKA data and make science-ready data and ancillary products available to the users. 21. The SKA Observatory will provide an archive with a data management system to support data- intensive astronomy. 22. The SKA Observatory will provide user support and tools to enable exploitation of SKA data.
Current Work Data Flow construction project capped at 650M scope of work includes generation and storage of data products in AUS/RSA it does not include delivery of data to users or further processing essential for full science exploitation of the SKA Data Flow Advisory Panel set up by Board in July will report back to Board in April 2016 ToR distributed to consortia
Current Work Panel members: Sarah Pearce Peter Quinn Chris Loken Meng Zhao Niruj Mohan Sergio Molinari Michael Wise Melanie Johnston-Hollitt Jasper Horrell Russ Taylor Paul Alexander Gary Davis Miles Deegan Ian Bird Jack Dongarra Brian Glendenning Australia South Africa Canada China India Italy Netherlands & Sweden New Zealand UK SKA Office External
Future Work Operations & Access Working Group to develop input to IGO negotiations led by Sarah Pearce, CSIRO Science commissioning Early Science Best practice 2016
