MPIfR/BKG correlator report

W. Alef1, A. Müskens2, A. Bertarini2

1Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn, Germany
2Institue for Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn, Germany

Oral presentation

A report of the present status, capabilities and usage of the Mark IV VLBI correlator in Bonn will be given. We describe the installation of the DiFX software correlator at the MPIfR, the status of a geodetic evaluation of DiFX, and our plans to replace the  Mark IV hardware correlator with the DiFX software correlator.