Team preparing for billion-dollar telescope shortlisted for Nobel Prize of supercomputing

An international team led by The University of Western Australia was one of six finalists for the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding achievement in high-performance computing.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Team preparing for billion-dollar telescope shortlisted for Nobel Prize of supercomputing

An international team led by The University of Western Australia was one of six finalists for the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding achievement in high-performance computing.

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International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) director of Data Intensive Astronomy Professor Andreas Wicenec, who is based at UWA, said construction of the billion-dollar SKA project was expected to begin next year.

When complete, the SKA will be the world’s largest radio telescope and one of the world’s largest data generators

The low frequency part of the telescope alone is set to have more than 130,000 antennas in its initial phase, generating around 550 gigabytes of data every second.

To process data on this scale, Professor Wicenec said the team used a cluster of 4560 computers, featuring 27,360 high-end GPUs and 191,520 CPU cores. The whole simulation ran for about three hours

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Thanks a million for the SKA update. With all the other things that have been happening recently, I’d forgotten about it.

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Team preparing for billion-dollar telescope shortlisted for Nobel Prize of supercomputing

An international team led by The University of Western Australia was one of six finalists for the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding achievement in high-performance computing.

more…

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) director of Data Intensive Astronomy Professor Andreas Wicenec, who is based at UWA, said construction of the billion-dollar SKA project was expected to begin next year.

When complete, the SKA will be the world’s largest radio telescope and one of the world’s largest data generators

The low frequency part of the telescope alone is set to have more than 130,000 antennas in its initial phase, generating around 550 gigabytes of data every second.

To process data on this scale, Professor Wicenec said the team used a cluster of 4560 computers, featuring 27,360 high-end GPUs and 191,520 CPU cores. The whole simulation ran for about three hours

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Thanks a million for the SKA update. With all the other things that have been happening recently, I’d forgotten about it.

“the first construction contracts scheduled to be awarded in late 2020.”

It’s now late 2020. Let’s hope that there’s no time slippage.