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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. Why can't we distribute this work? by jarich · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Why do projects like this have to be done on supercomputers? Wouldn't it be a cool to be involved with this, in a distributed.net style.

    If you participate, you get free access to all the high res graphics!

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