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Irregardless of whether Australia win the official full SKA project Australia will proceed with our own version. The Government has already committed $100 million dollars and has the pilot site established in Mid Western Australia. I believe that CSIRO will be purchasing the first Supercomputing nodes towards the later half of 2012. This "smaller" version alone will generate hundreds of Petabytes of data. Apparently the data links from the telescope site to the processing datacentre will need Terabit+ network links to keep up with the data capture.
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