Astronomers Look to Exascale Computing to Uncover Mysteries of the Universe by Robert Gelber.
From the post:
Plans are currently underway for development of the world’s most powerful radio telescope. The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will consist of roughly 3,000 antennae located in Southern Africa or Australia; its final location may be decided later this month. The heart of this system, however, will include one of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
The array is quite demanding of both data storage and processing power. It is expected to generate an exabyte of data per day and require a multi-exaflops supercomputer to process it. Rebecca Boyle of Popsci wrote an article about the telescope’s computing demands, estimating that such a machine would have to deliver between two to thirty exaflops.
The array is not due to go online until 2024 but that really isn’t that far away.
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