Malta Café Scientifique's event tomorrow tackles the matter of space by looking at a proposed technological project, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). Humans have an infinite fascination with the universe. The SKA, the world's largest radio telescope, will revolutionise our understanding of the cosmos. It will be composed of tens of thousands of antennas and thousands of dishes and will generate enough data to fill 30,000 DVDs every second. The SKA will span thousands of kilometres, spread across Australia and sub-Saharan Africa. The Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy (ISSA) is developing part of the software infrastructure which will make this happen. The data generated by the antennas and dishes needs to be processed in real time, on different types of hardware, so that scientists can then analyse and interpret it. The hundreds of thousands of components making up the SKA need to be monitored and controlled in real time as well, so that any malfunctioning part can be replaced, making sure that the data chain is as little affected as possible. This is not a simple task, and both custom hardware and software elements are being prototyped for this. When built, this...
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