A Computational Radio Telescope – The Square Kilometre Array Professor Tim Cornwell Square Kilometre Array Telescope (SKA), UK

Abstract: The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be one of the largest scientific projects in history. The SKA will consist of three radio telescopes, sited in South Africa and Australia. The designs depend crucially on digital technology – signal processing at the frontend, and science data processing at the backend. The backend processing is dominated by large data flows, and requires close to 1 Exaflop for data processing. Challenges abound in the signal processing and computing development areas. I will discuss these challenges and how the worldwide community engaged in SKA design is tackling these challenges.

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