Cape Town set to get one of the world's fastest supercomputers

30 Jan

William Brederode

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A supercomputer is set to be built in Cape Town to process data from the Square Kilometre Array telescope.

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Procurement is underway for a supercomputer that would be one of the fastest in the world if completed today. The computer is set to be constructed at the iThemba LABS site in Cape Town within the next three years.

The Cape Town Science Processing Centre will be one of the machines responsible for processing the vast amount of data that is set to be generated by the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope being hosted in South Africa. The radio telescope, set to be the world's largest on completion, generates vast amounts of data as it probes the secrets of the universe.

The supercomputer is set to be built with a processing speed of 135 petaFlops, which would make it the ninth fastest supercomputer currently, based on the November 2023 Top500 list.

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