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X-WR-CALNAME: IAC Talks: Open Astronomy Seminars
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CREATED:2018-06-01T10:30:00+01:00
X-WR-CALDESC: IAC Talks upcomming talks
SUMMARY:The Square Kilometre Array: the radio telescope of the XXI century
DESCRIPTION:The Square Kilometre Array: the radio telescope of the XXI cent
 ury\nProf. Keith Grainge\n\nThe Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the w
 orld’s largest and most  sensitive radio telescope. It will address 
 fundamental unanswered  questions about our Universe including how the fir
 st stars and galaxies  formed after the big bang, how dark energy is accel
 erating the expansion  of the Universe, the role of magnetism in the cosmo
 s, the nature of  gravity, and the search for life beyond Earth. This proj
 ect envisages  the construction of 133 15-m antennas in South Africa and 1
 31,072  log-periodic antennas in Australia, together with the associated  
 infrastructure in the two desert sites. In addition, the SKA is an  exempl
 ar Big Data project, with data rates of around 10 Tbps being  transported 
 out of the telescope to HPC facilities; and very exacting  data processing
  requirements that are likely to need a combination of  CPU, GPU and FPGA 
 technologies to solve.
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