IBM to power $51 million radio telescope that will help probe the origins of the universe

IBM has been chosen by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) consortium to help scientists probe the origins of the universe. The vonsortium, composed of 13 institutions from Australia, New Zealand, U.S. and India, are planning to build a new type of radio telescope that's designed to capture low frequency radio waves from deep space, as well as the volatile atmospheric conditions in the Sun. Basically, signals will be received by the MWA telescope's 4,096 dipole antennas and will then be processed by IBM's iDataPlex dx360 M3 computing cluster to convert the radio waves into wide-field images.

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