Det er altså et fascinerende projekt… sad og så lidt youtube videoer omkring det og har læst lidt på deres website… det er altså et projekt at voldsomme dimensioner..
På hjemmesiden er der nogle sjove facts omkring det 🙂
The data collected by the SKA in a single day would take nearly two million years to playback on an ipod.
The SKA central computer will have the processing power of about one hundred million PCs.
The SKA will use enough optical fibre to wrap twice around the Earth!
The dishes of the SKA will produce 10 times the global internet traffic.
The aperture arrays in the SKA could produce more than 100 times the global internet traffic.
The SKA will generate enough raw data to fill 15 million 64 GB iPods every day!
The SKA supercomputer will perform 1018 operations per second – equivalent to the number of stars in three million Milky Way galaxies – in order to process all the data that the SKA will produce.
The SKA will be so sensitive that it will be able to detect an airport radar on a planet 50 light years away.
The SKA will contain thousands of antennas with a combined collecting area of about one square kilometre (that’s 1 000 000 square metres!).
For mere info – Se:
SKA Telescope
For youtube video – Se følgende præsentation givet af Peter Quinn:
Radio Astronomy: SKA – Something Kinda Awesome
Vanvittigt projekt – All in all =)