Team preparing for billion-dollar telescope shortlisted for ‘Nobel Prize of supercomputing’
November 20, 2020An international team led by The University of Western Australia was one of six finalists for the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding achievement in high-performance computing.
Preparations complete in Western Australia for construction of world’s largest telescope
June 10, 2020Following seven years of design and prototyping work, the Curtin University node of ICRAR has completed its preparations for the construction of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in Western Australia.
World’s fastest supercomputer processes huge data rates in preparation for mega-telescope project
October 22, 2019Scientists have processed 400 gigabytes of data a second as they tested data pipelines for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope.