8–12 Apr 2013
The University of Manchester
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Square Kilometre Array Computing Challenges

10 Apr 2013, 09:45
40m
Theatre (The University of Manchester)

Theatre

The University of Manchester

Presentations Plenary Keynotes

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Cornwell Tim (Head of Computing, Square Kilometer Array)

Summary

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an international collaboration to build one of the world's great science instruments, which will tell us about the Dark Ages, the evolution of galaxies, the large scale structure of the universe, and whether Einstein was right about gravity. SKA will indisputably produce Big Data and will require Big Computing, namely two monolithic supercomputers located close to the telescopes in South Africa and Australia. The pipeline processing software has unprecedented goals in both scientific performance such as dynamic range, and scaling to large numbers of processing nodes. No existing imaging software meets these requirements and the effort to develop customised software will require about 200 developers spread across the globe.

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