IBM To Power MWA Telescope - Will They Discover Origins Of The Universe?

Last year, we told you about the #-Link-Snipped-# being the biggest telescope ever. And now we are back with an update - IBM announced today that Victoria University of Wellington has selected their company to power Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) to help scientists probe the origins of the universe. MWA is a low-frequency precursor telescope to the Square Kilometre Array, developed by an international consortium of 13 institutions from Australia, New Zealand, U.S. and India. It is located near Boolardy Station in Western Australia. It will capture low frequency radio waves from deep space as well as the volatile atmospheric conditions of the Sun. The signals will be captured by the telescope’s 4,096 dipole antennas positioned in the Australian Outback in a continuous stream and processed by an IBM iDataPlex dx360 M3 computing cluster that will convert the radio waves into wide-field images of the sky that are unprecedented in clarity and detail.

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The IBM iDataPlex cluster replaces MWA’s existing custom-made hardware systems and is expected to process approximately 50 terabytes of data per day at full data rate at a speed of 8 gigabytes per second. This is equivalent to over 2,000 digital songs per second. It allows scientists to study more of the sky faster than ever before. See a video -



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