ASTRON and IBM Team to Help Research the First Origins of the Universe31 December 2006
which can produce low noise, low power consumption and result in a lower cost per unit. IBM and ASTRON only just started working on the designs last October 2006. The first chip design and prototypes delivery is targeted for the first half of 2007. The second chip design and prototype delivery is planned for later on in the year.
"Increasingly, more and more companies across industries must collaborate with others in order to achieve the new level of innovation required for success," said Raj Desai, Vice President, Aerospace & Defense, IBM Technology Collaboration Solutions. "With access to our deep R&D capabilities, engineering expertise and intellectual property, we can collaborate with ASTRON to develop the customized processors which have the speed, performance and cooling capabilities that will enable ASTRON to focus on the research results they desire."
The chips will be deployed in pilot antenna tiles and will be used to filter useful information from the radio signals. The SKADS/EMBRACE antenna tiles will be deployed in the North of The Netherlands at the site of the famous Westerbork Radio Synthesis Telescope (WSRT) and in France near Nançay, South of Paris.
IBM has previously collaborated with ASTRON on implementing IBM's Blue Gene® supercomputer, currently being used to gather and analyze information from ASTRON's Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) "software telescope" network located in the North of The Netherlands.
Decisions on the final location for the SKA radio astronomy telescope are still to be finalized. Australia and South Africa are the two remaining location options, capable of installing the millions of antennas required for receiving the very weak signals from the universe.
IBM Technology Collaboration Solutions group integrates the skills of IBM engineers, consultants and technical professionals, with IBM's leading edge technology and access to its intellectual property assets within IBM, to enable a new level of collaborative innovation, research and development between IBM and its clients.
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