Wednesday, 15 February 2012
The 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 Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) is gearing up to meet that unprecedented need.
ICRAR - a joint venture between Curtin University and The University of Western Australia - has signed an agreement with DataDirect Networks to develop the extraordinary new data storage capability.
ICRAR scientists say the $2 billion SKA will generate one exabyte of data - a billion terabytes (or one quintillion bytes) every day while it searches the sky with the power to detect airport radars in other solar systems 50 light years away.
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Professor Peter Hall
(Deputy Director responsible for Engirneering | ICRAR) (+61 4) 00 801 531
Professor Andreas Wicenec
(Head of Computing | ICRAR (+61 4) 31 832 602
Kirsten Gottschalk
(Media Contact | ICRAR) (+61 8) 6488 7771 / (+61 4) 38 361 876
Michael Sinclair-Jones
(UWA Public Affairs) (+61 8) 6488 3229 / (+61 4) 00 700 783
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