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Breaking SKA news - £11 million in UK funding

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    Breaking SKA news - £11 million in UK funding

    "UK science minister David Willetts has announced £11m of funding to help the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) process the expected deluge of data it will produce.

    Handling the expected 915-petabyte daily data firehose from the entire SKA radio telescope will require advances in practically every computing discipline: the data will have to be considerably slimmed down before it can either be stored, sent over network links, or used for computation.

    That 915PB that the SKA's expected to generate at launch in 2020 is close to a day's worth of traffic on the entire Internet today. By the time it's fully functional in 2025, that figure could be as much as ten times higher.

    According to the SKA organisation, the “computing and software for the project … will have a data processing capacity 1,000 times greater than currently available.”"

    Square-kilometre radio telescope wins £11 million in UK funding


    #2
    Ahh bugger. I had a banana at the ready.
    'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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      #3
      Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
      Ahh bugger. I had a banana at the ready.
      Me too - was just thinking the other day that you'd gone very quiet with SKA news. So what's happening?

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        #4
        Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
        Me too - was just thinking the other day that you'd gone very quiet with SKA news. So what's happening?
        yeah when are you taking us all up for a slap up nosh with lashings of ginger beer to celebrate SKA's success ?

        - just joking honest. I was hoping for a SKA branded Aleksander

        http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/...91_636x381.jpg

        or baby

        http://cdn.comparethemarket.com/meer...tion-promo.png

        you must be making serious cash by now aren't you? You worked hard enough for it.
        Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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          #5
          Originally posted by vetran View Post
          you must be making serious cash by now aren't you? You worked hard enough for it.
          Yet another immigrant, eh?
          Wouldn't have passed the academic criteria mooted by UKIP to get in, probably
          Hard Brexit now!
          #prayfornodeal

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            #6
            What is worse is that when the story about the Square Kilometre Array was being done on the North West news the other night I thought about SKA. I've obviously been on here far too much and for too long!!
            Rule Number 1 - Assuming that you have a valid contract in place always try to get your poo onto your timesheet, provided that the timesheet is valid for your current contract and covers the period of time that you are billing for.

            I preferred version 1!

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              #7
              Originally posted by BoredBloke View Post
              What is worse is that when the story about the Square Kilometre Array was being done on the North West news the other night I thought about SKA. I've obviously been on here far too much and for too long!!

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                #8
                Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
                Me too - was just thinking the other day that you'd gone very quiet with SKA news. So what's happening?
                Stay tuned for now imminent SKA news...

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                  #9
                  This time next year woders we'll be millionaires
                  Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

                  No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by MicrosoftBob View Post
                    This time next year woders we'll be millionaires
                    And it bloody happened to them as well.
                    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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