New Supercomputer Boosts Aussie SKA Telescope Bid

The main thing actually is bandwidth.

Radioastronomy needs a lot of CPU power, but compared to other things like the stuff that uses BOINC, it needs a lot of bandwidth.

For example our current LOFAR system handles 200 Gb/s with a 12.000 core BlueGene and a ~3200 core, 200 machine cluster and about 6 PB of storage.

At full resolution we would write 2 PB per 24 hours.

With 2 million BOINC users, it would require an average stream of about 1 Mb/s per user, if each of them is online for 2.4 hours a day.

In other wor

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