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SuperComputing 2017

Members of the SKA Organisation and SDP Consortium are in Denver this week attending the annual SuperCompuing conference. This year the conference keynote "Life, the Universe and Computing: The Story of the SKA Telescope" was given by the SKA Director General Phil Diamond, and the SKA Regional Centre Project Scientist Rosie Bolton. The talk gives an excellent introduction to the background of radio astronomy and how and why the SKA project is moving forwards. You can replay it here.

 

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