SKA telescope to provide a billion PCs' worth of processing

Posted by JediLlama 356 days ago in Science & Technology (http://www.computerworld.com.au)
The company, which is part of a research consortium that includes Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Curtin University of Technology and the University of Western Australia, is currently working down a technology roadmap that leads to the development of exaflop machine — the processing equivalent of about a billion PCs. It is also developing a new form of solid state storage, 'Racetrack Memory', which may hold the key to enabling the storage of the SKA’s vast amount of astronomical data.
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