{"id":33902,"date":"2011-09-14T15:09:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T13:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=33902"},"modified":"2011-09-14T15:11:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T13:11:03","slug":"ska-datato-be-processed-by-skynet-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/33902-ska-datato-be-processed-by-skynet-project.html","title":{"rendered":"SKA data to be processed by Skynet project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) wants the public to take part in a distributed computing project aimed at processing information provided by the upcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a title=\"BBC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-14896330\" target=\"_self\">BBC<\/a> report, the project will be analysing data from a satellite array with its own in house supercomputers, as well as idle public PCs to handle additional information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we design, develop and switch on the next generation of radio telescopes, the supercomputing resources processing this deluge of data will be in increasingly high demand,&#8221; explained ICRAR director, Professor Peter Quinn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SkyNet aims to complement the work already being done by creating a citizen science computing resource that radio astronomers can tap into and process data in ways and for purposes that otherwise might not be possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To sign up and be part of the distributed computing project you can head over to <a title=\"SkyNet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theskynet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skynet\u2019s official site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICRAR wants the public to take part in a distributed computing project named Skynet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":28572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,4748,4746,4752,1239,4750],"class_list":["post-33902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-distributed-computing","tag-icrar","tag-peter-quinn","tag-ska","tag-skynet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33940,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33902\/revisions\/33940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}