Monday, July 11, 2005

Software Telescope

"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."

source:http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/11/0020230&tid=160&tid=14

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