Designs for Square Kilometre Array’s supercomputer completed
The international consortium behind the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) have completed the five-year process of designing one of two supercomputers that will crunch its way through the mountains of celestial data collected by the fields of radio telescopes.
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Kudos Australia and Perth gets one of them, sweet
Tau.Neutrino said:
Designs for Square Kilometre Array’s supercomputer completedThe international consortium behind the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) have completed the five-year process of designing one of two supercomputers that will crunch its way through the mountains of celestial data collected by the fields of radio telescopes.
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Seems a bit odd to me that astronomers should design a special computer for their needs, rather than just programming an off the shelf machine, but I suppose they’d have their reasons.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Designs for Square Kilometre Array’s supercomputer completedThe international consortium behind the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) have completed the five-year process of designing one of two supercomputers that will crunch its way through the mountains of celestial data collected by the fields of radio telescopes.
more…
Seems a bit odd to me that astronomers should design a special computer for their needs, rather than just programming an off the shelf machine, but I suppose they’d have their reasons.
“We estimate SDP’s total compute power to be around 250 PFlops – that’s 25 percent faster than IBM’s Summit, the current fastest supercomputer in the world.”
Yea, they should’ve just got a Dell or some such for Officeworks…
poikilotherm said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Designs for Square Kilometre Array’s supercomputer completedThe international consortium behind the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) have completed the five-year process of designing one of two supercomputers that will crunch its way through the mountains of celestial data collected by the fields of radio telescopes.
more…
Seems a bit odd to me that astronomers should design a special computer for their needs, rather than just programming an off the shelf machine, but I suppose they’d have their reasons.
“We estimate SDP’s total compute power to be around 250 PFlops – that’s 25 percent faster than IBM’s Summit, the current fastest supercomputer in the world.”
Yea, they should’ve just got a Dell or some such for Officeworks…
Pity the connection will be FTTN
poikilotherm said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Designs for Square Kilometre Array’s supercomputer completedThe international consortium behind the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) have completed the five-year process of designing one of two supercomputers that will crunch its way through the mountains of celestial data collected by the fields of radio telescopes.
more…
Seems a bit odd to me that astronomers should design a special computer for their needs, rather than just programming an off the shelf machine, but I suppose they’d have their reasons.
“We estimate SDP’s total compute power to be around 250 PFlops – that’s 25 percent faster than IBM’s Summit, the current fastest supercomputer in the world.”
Yea, they should’ve just got a Dell or some such for Officeworks…
I’d be prepared to bet, it’s commercial in confidence so nobody knows, that at least one of Google’s central computers is faster. In which case they could have just bought computing time on the cloud.
Just kidding – or am I?