Articles about 'Square Kilometre Array'

Women in STEM: Shagita Gounden

30 January 2020

Shagita Gounden is a systems engineer working on the world’s largest radio telescope, an Executive MBA candidate at Cambridge Judge Business School, and a member of St Edmund’s College. Here, she tells us about being part of a massive global science project, the benefits of working with an international team, and how it makes her hopeful as a South African.

Women in STEM: Verity Allan

29 August 2019

Verity Allan is a graduate of Cambridge, Oxford, and The Open University. She is a PhD candidate at the Cavendish Laboratory and works as a project manager and programmer on the software for the Square Kilometre Array, the world's largest radio telescope.

Dishes close-up. One of the supercomputer’s first roles will be as a test bed for the development of a computing platform for the Square Kilometre Array - an international effort to build the world’s largest telescope.

Super-fast and super-green: Cambridge unveils pioneering high-performance computer

13 December 2013

A super energy-efficient high-performance computer, with a performance equivalent to 4,000 desktop machines running at once, will enable researchers to handle the Big Data challenges of the future - not least the design of a system to support the world's largest telescope.

Articles about 'Square Kilometre Array'

Women in STEM: Shagita Gounden

Women in STEM: Verity Allan

Super-fast and super-green: Cambridge unveils pioneering high-performance computer

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