Parallel sessions

Computing underpins scientific exploitation across Astronomy, UKSP and MIST community domains. In the UK, the STFC supports a range of infrastructures to enable both High Throughput Computing (HTC, e.g. GridPP) and High Performance Computing (e.g. DIRAC). The STFC IRIS digital research infrastructure provides seamless access to these and other (e.g. The Hartree Centre, The Ada Lovelace Centre) resources. This session will update the community on developments in IRIS and its partner infrastructure providers, highlighting the emerging scientific exploitation and data science opportunities opened up by access to massive scale computational resources. Presentations will include examples of IRIS supporting gravitational wave analysis, large radio surveys (e.g. SKA), large optical imaging (e.g. Vera Rubin Observatory) and spectroscopic surveys (e.g. 4MOST). The session will discuss the importance of enhancing research software engineers career paths and diversity in keeping the UK at the forefront of data exploitation. Early stage researchers will be encouraged to present their results from IRIS facilities. The session will act as an 'on-ramp' for the community in accessing ISIS resources and thus enhance their science results. The session is organised by representatives of major projects involved in the IRIS initiative (https://www.iris.ac.uk/about-iris/partners/), and follows our first successful AstroComp session that we organised at the NAM2021 meeting. The session will cover presentation of science enabled by the digital research infrastructure and the development of new software and services for use on the infrastructure (along with the role and futures for research data engineers in creating these codes). It will enable science, being and to be delivered in support of major new astronomy missions such as the SKA and Vera Rubin Observatory to be presented, where contributions from early stage researchers will be prioritised.