DiFX at KASI Jongsoo Kim and Taehyun Jung Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
YonseiUlsanTamna Korean VLBI Network 3 × 21m Antennas Maximum Baseline : 480 km 4 Channel (22/43/86/129 GHz), LCP/RCP Simultaneous Observing System Multi-Frequency Phase Referencing Correlators: Daejeon(HW), DiFX(SW )
22/43/86/129 GHz Receivers - 3 -
Performance tests East Sea Korea : KVN antenna Yonsei (Seoul), Ulsan, Tanma (Jeju) Japan : VERA antenna Mizusawa, Ishigaki, Iriki,Ogasawara
Improved image (22GHz) of M87 by KVN+VERA Total flux : 1.18 Jy Peak flux : 1.04 Jy/beam Image rms : 4 mJy/beam Total flux : 1.55 Jy Peak flux : 1.08 Jy/beam Image rms : 2 mJy/beam
Daejeon
DiFX system one difx server: 16 cores (E5-2690), 64GB memory, CentOS 6.3 Storage: 120TB+80TB RAID 6, direct attached to server Mark5 unit: Mark 5B+(SDK8.3), 5C(SDK9.2), direct connection to server with 1GE
Operations Just started normal operations for KVN only following standard procedure –Fuse or mk5cp –vex2difx –calcif2 –mpifxcorr –difx2mark4, fourfit –difx2fits
Example
Performance mk5cp: ~ 0.51 Gbit/sec mpifxcorr with 16 cores: ~24 hours correlation time for a 12 hour 1Gbps observation with 3 KVN antennas
Future Plan “native” Mark5 correlation infiniband upgrade Correlation for KVN+VERA –Require copy of VERA 2000 tape to Mark 5 diskpack or storage