News

During a recent (November 7) experiment, a single scan of Westerbork data was sent directly to JIVE via the Wb-JIVE optical-fibre, where it was recorded on a Mark5 unit. The same data were also recorded on tape at Westerbork. Last week the tape and disk data were correlated, giving good confidence that the remote recording was good. Final confirmation was achieved when the Westerbork disk was correlated with Effelsberg data - FRINGE! The data recording rate was 256Mb/s.

The 2003 JIVE/ASTRON Open Day was held on October 19 in the main ASTRON/JIVE building near Dwingeloo. The day was a huge success.

DANTE (the operators of GÉANT) have produced a video which describes the network and its capabilities, with specific reference to several scientific research projects that intend to utilise its high-speed (10Gbps) pan-European connectivity. Prominent amongst these is eVLBI, with Mike Garrett (the director of JIVE) interviewed.

 

The EVN MkIV Data Processor at JIVE has achieved quarter-second integrations using the whole correlator. This improvement is the first step along the way to the Post-Correlator Integrator and recirculation.

The summer student BBQ was held this year on 15 Aug. 

A BBC News Online article was published about high-speed data transfer across the internet, with specific reference to eVLBI, the EVN, JIVE and Dante.