Radio Astronomy and Really BIG Data
April 24, 2015There’s Big Data and then there’s radio astronomy Big Data…it’s bigger than big! Associate Professor Kevin Vinsen from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research…
ASTRONOMICAL SUPERCOMPUTERS OF THE FUTURE COULD HAVE INTEL INSIDE
September 17, 2012Last month researchers from Perth’s ICRAR joined global computing giant Intel in Germany at the launch of the new “many-core” processor called Xeon Phi.
GEARING UP FOR DATA DELUGE FROM WORLD’S BIGGEST RADIO TELESCOPE
March 6, 2012The amount of computer data generated by the entire world in a whole year will need to be stored in a single day for the world’s most powerful telescope − the SKA.