Brain of SKA Designed

Scientists at Cambridge have finished designing the ‘brain’ of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world’s largest radio telescope. On completion, the SKA will enable astronomers to monitor the sky in unprecedented detail and survey the entire sky much faster than any system currently in existence.

SKA’s Science Data Processor (SDP)

• The SDP consortium, led by the University of Cambridge in the UK, has designed the elements that will together form the ‘brain’ of the SKA.
• SDP’s total computing power will be around 250 Peta Flops — which is25 per cent faster than IBM’s Summit, the current fastest supercomputer in the ....