IBM to Help Develop Computers to Study Universe’s Origins
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International Business Machines Corp. has partnered with a team building the world’s largest radio telescope to develop super computer systems to make sense of light years of space data and the history of the universe.
The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, known as ASTRON, and IBM will collaborate to research so-called exascale computers that consume little power. The technology will be needed to study faint radio signals from deep space produced by the “Big Bang” 13 billion years ago -- to be collected by the Square Kilometre Array telescope when it’s completed in 2024.