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Zippy replied

13 March 2014, 17:28
Originally posted by mudskipper View Post

Me too - was just thinking the other day that you'd gone very quiet with SKA news. So what's happening?

Me three. I'l just make some bread with this spare banana instead.
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SueEllen replied

13 March 2014, 17:05
Originally posted by MicrosoftBob View Post

This time next year woders we'll be millionaires

And it bloody happened to them as well.
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MicrosoftBob replied

13 March 2014, 16:19
This time next year woders we'll be millionaires
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AtW replied

13 March 2014, 16:08
Originally posted by mudskipper View Post

Me too - was just thinking the other day that you'd gone very quiet with SKA news. So what's happening?

Stay tuned for now imminent SKA news...
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AtW replied

13 March 2014, 15:53
Originally posted by BoredBloke View Post

What is worse is that when the story about the Square Kilometre Array was being done on the North West news the other night I thought about SKA. I've obviously been on here far too much and for too long!!
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BoredBloke replied

13 March 2014, 15:53
What is worse is that when the story about the Square Kilometre Array was being done on the North West news the other night I thought about SKA. I've obviously been on here far too much and for too long!!
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sasguru replied

13 March 2014, 15:46
Originally posted by vetran View Post

you must be making serious cash by now aren't you? You worked hard enough for it.

Yet another immigrant, eh?
Wouldn't have passed the academic criteria mooted by UKIP to get in, probably
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vetran replied

13 March 2014, 15:26
Originally posted by mudskipper View Post

Me too - was just thinking the other day that you'd gone very quiet with SKA news. So what's happening?

yeah when are you taking us all up for a slap up nosh with lashings of ginger beer to celebrate SKA's success ?

- just joking honest. I was hoping for a SKA branded Aleksander

http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/...91_636x381.jpg

or baby

http://cdn.comparethemarket.com/meer...tion-promo.png

you must be making serious cash by now aren't you? You worked hard enough for it.
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mudskipper replied

13 March 2014, 15:21
Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

Ahh bugger. I had a banana at the ready.

Me too - was just thinking the other day that you'd gone very quiet with SKA news. So what's happening?
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northernladuk replied

13 March 2014, 15:20
Ahh bugger. I had a banana at the ready.
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AtW started a topic Breaking SKA news - £11 million in UK funding

13 March 2014, 15:18
Breaking SKA news - £11 million in UK funding

"UK science minister David Willetts has announced £11m of funding to help the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) process the expected deluge of data it will produce.

Handling the expected 915-petabyte daily data firehose from the entire SKA radio telescope will require advances in practically every computing discipline: the data will have to be considerably slimmed down before it can either be stored, sent over network links, or used for computation.

That 915PB that the SKA's expected to generate at launch in 2020 is close to a day's worth of traffic on the entire Internet today. By the time it's fully functional in 2025, that figure could be as much as ten times higher.

According to the SKA organisation, the “computing and software for the project … will have a data processing capacity 1,000 times greater than currently available.”"

Square-kilometre radio telescope wins £11 million in UK funding
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