IBM has joined forces with a team building the world’s largest radio telescope to develop super computer systems to study space data and the origin of the universe. The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, called ASTRON, and IBM will collaborate to research exascale computers that consume little power.
The technology will be needed to study faint radio
signals from deep space produced by the Big Bang 13 billion years ago — to be
collected by the Square Kilometre Array telescope when it’s completed in 2024.
“The telescope will be used to explore evolving galaxies, dark matter and even
the very origins of the universe,” IBM and ASTRON said in a statement.
The $43.9 million ‘DOME project’ in Drenthe, the Netherlands, will study technologies necessary to read, store and analyze one exabyte of raw data per day, which is double the size of entire daily internet traffic. Construction of the super telescope will begin in 2017.
It will be put up in Australia or South Africa where there is enough space to accommodate 3,000 dishes that make up the super telescope. AGENCIES
MONSTER MACHINE
THE COMPUTER will process more than an exabyte of data every day — more than the entire daily internet traffic and enough to fill up 15 million 64GB iPods every day THE MACHINE will be a million of times more powerful than today’s fastest PCs, and it will produce 100 times more information than Large Hadron Collider.
The $43.9 million ‘DOME project’ in Drenthe, the Netherlands, will study technologies necessary to read, store and analyze one exabyte of raw data per day, which is double the size of entire daily internet traffic. Construction of the super telescope will begin in 2017.
It will be put up in Australia or South Africa where there is enough space to accommodate 3,000 dishes that make up the super telescope. AGENCIES
MONSTER MACHINE
THE COMPUTER will process more than an exabyte of data every day — more than the entire daily internet traffic and enough to fill up 15 million 64GB iPods every day THE MACHINE will be a million of times more powerful than today’s fastest PCs, and it will produce 100 times more information than Large Hadron Collider.
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