Big telescope, big data: towards exascale with the Square Kilometre Array.

Autor: Scaife AMM; Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences [Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci] 2020 Mar 06; Vol. 378 (2166), pp. 20190060. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jan 20.
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2019.0060
Abstrakt: Unlike optical telescopes, radio interferometers do not image the sky directly but require specialized image formation algorithms. For the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the computational requirements of this image formation are extremely demanding due to the huge data rates produced by the telescope. This processing will be performed by the SKA Science Data Processor facilities and a network of SKA Regional Centres, which must not only deal with SKA-scale data volumes but also with stringent science-driven image fidelity requirements. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Numerical algorithms for high-performance computational science'.
Databáze: MEDLINE