![]() ![]() The initial five-year DOME collaboration is realised with financial support of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation (EL&I) and from the Province of Drenthe. Software analytics - the 64 dishes of the MeerKat telescope in South Africa will be used for the testing and development of a sophisticated software program that will aid in the design of the entire computing system holistically and optimally, taking into account all of the cost and performance trade-offs for the eventual 3 000 SKA dishes.The team in South Africa will extend this research to make the microsevers rugged or “desert proof” to handle the extreme environmental conditions where the SKA will be located. the DOME team is researching and prototyping microserver architectures based on liquid-cooled 3D stacked chips. Visualising the challenge - scientists will conduct fundamental research into signal processing and advanced computing algorithms for the capture, processing, and analysis of the SKA data so clear images can be produced for astronomers to study.More specifically, scientists from SKA South Africa will focus on the following research themes: ![]() Scientists from all three organizations will collaborate remotely and at the newly established ASTRON & IBM Center for Exascale Technology in Drenthe, the Netherlands. Through its SKA South Africa unit, the National Research Foundation is now a user platform partner in DOME. The collaboration includes a user platform where organisations from around the world can jointly investigate emerging technologies in high-performance, energy-efficient computing, nanophotonics, and data streaming. The aperture arrays and dishes of the SKA will produce 10 times the global internet traffic, but the power to process all of this data as it is collected far exceeds the capabilities of the current state-of-the-art technology.Īs part of the global effort to solve this unprecedented challenge, ASTRON and IBM in 2012 launched a public-private partnership called DOME, to develop a fundamental IT roadmap for the SKA. When the SKA is completed, it will collect Big Data from deep space containing information dating back to the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago. The SKA project constitutes the ultimate Big Data challenge, and scientists must produce major advances in computing to deal with it. These are aimed at developing advanced technologies for handling the massive amount of data that will be produced by the SKA. Read more South African scientists to develop rugged microservers to handle the harsh desert conditions, explore new computer architectures and develop advanced algorithms for radio astronomy imagingġ1 March 2013 - Square Kilometer Array (SKA) South Africa, a business unit of the country’s National Research Foundation is joining ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, and IBM in a four-year collaboration to research extremely fast, but low-power exascale computer systems. Our successful bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), together with eight other African partner countries and Australia, signifies a new chapter for the country. Since the advent of democracy we have hosted the international community for summits, conferences and world cups, but the field of science is a new addition to our repertoire. News The sky's the limit in science innovationġ2 November 2013 - Some believe the stars can foretell the future, but back in 1994 naysayers would have scoffed at the prediction that in less than two decades South Africa would lead the scientific world in one of the biggest experiments of the 21st century. Two SKA receiver components will be built in South Africa and one in Australia. The SKA will be hosted in South Africa and Australia. ![]() The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an international effort to build the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope to help better understand the history of the universe. ![]()
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