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Software Telescope

Posted by timothy on from the small-pieces-hooked-together dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC News is running the story 'Pyramid power' probes universe which is about LOFAR's software telescope for radio astronomy. The heart of the system is a IBM Blue Gene which processes data from an array of simple pyramidal radio antennae. The array of antennae are also multitasking in the fields of geophysics and agriculture."

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  1. Software Telescope? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So it just takes an image and blows it up like software zoom in digital cameras? lame.

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