IBM Completes Software Project for Square Kilometre Array

Astronomical Data Deluge In excess of 1 Exabyte of raw data in a single day - more than the entire daily internet traffic Megadata Square Kilometre Array €1.5b + A €1.5 billion global science project + Astronomers and engineers from more than 70 institutes in 20 countries + Automated data faster classification with fewer errors + Guided search = easier access for scientists and non-scientists alike 10 106 1O106 106 3000 + 3000 dishes, each 15m wide 10 106 10 ||10||106 + Frees researchers to be more productive and creative + Using enough optical fibre to wrap twice around the Earth 10 10 10S|1010 IBM A prototype software Information architecture to manage Intensive the megadata Framework generated by SKA Enough raw data to fill over 15 million 64GB iPods +A combined collecting area of about one square kilometre IBM. 1,000,000 m2 every day Top image: SPDO/Swinburne Astronomy Productions