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IBM Preps Hyper-Fast Computing System for World’s Largest Radiotelescope

“To handle the unprecedented—literally astronomical—amount of data expected from the world’s largest radiotelescope when it becomes operational in 2024, IBM has teamed up with the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (Astron) in a five-year, $43 million collaboration to develop a computing architecture and data transfer links with a capacity that far exceeds current state-of-the-art technology.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402507,00.asp