Australia’s CSIRO, the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) are part of an international consortium that has completed a five-year effort to design supercomputing infrastructure that will help process the masses of data generated by the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project.
Brett O’Riley, deputy chief executive of business innovation and investment at the Ministry of Science and Innovation (MSI), sees the SKA project as an example of collaboration across the science and technology “ecosystem” – and as a way of demonstrating to government that such collaboration works well.
IBM has given Victoria University of Wellington a “Shared University Research Award”, in which it will donate the to the university a BM Graphical Processor Unit, plus management and implementation services.
Two technologies currently under research by IBM may hold the key to processing and storing the exabyte (1018) of data expected to flow per day from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope project.
AUT has just signed an agreement with the CSIRO, which is leading the development of Australia’s SKA Pathfinder telescope — a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) giant next-generation telescope.