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2013-11 New Zealand Government Announcement on SKA |
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December 2013 |
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New Zealand Government Press Release, 26 November 2013
For the original and full announcement, see this: http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/kiwi-researchers-secure-leading-role-ska-project
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Two New Zealand research groups have secured prominent positions in one
of the world’s largest and most ambitious science projects – the Square
Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, Science and Innovation Minister
Steven Joyce announced today. AUT University and Victoria University of
Wellington will lead two work areas in the pre-construction of the SKA.
These two areas are in the Central Signal Processor and the Science Data
Processor work packages, working alongside other New Zealand experts.
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“While this is a radio astronomy project, one of its exciting features
is that the quantity of information that will be gathered by this
instrument will be massive; it requires major leaps in information and
communication technology to manage, store and interpret the data. One of
the encouraging features of the SKA project is that a project of this
size and complexity can only be achieved through collaboration which
will develop and deepen our international linkages. The work with
international groups is exciting – more than 350 scientists and
engineers, from 18 countries, and from more than 100 institutions will
be involved. This is an unprecedented opportunity for New Zealand to
showcase our expertise in ICT and software development. During the SKA’s
three-year design phase a significant number of New Zealand
organisations will be involved including the University of Auckland,
Massey University, Victoria University Wellington, Callaghan Innovation,
Compucon New Zealand, University of Otago, IBM, Green Button and Open
Parallel.”
Editor's note: Compucon is a member of the Central Signal Processing design team
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