We were thrilled to welcome a group of 60+ Astrophysicists, Engineers and Scientists from the SKA Global Planning Group to DUG this week who had convened in Perth for their week-long planning meeting on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope project.

We joined forces with presenters from International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)’s Curtin University and University of Western Australia, and CSIRO to present DUG’s high performance compute capabilities, and some initial outcomes from data processing completed for the Murchison Widefield Array telescope project here in WA. Pictured top is the presentation team: L-R Matt Lamont – DUG, Markus Dolensky – ICRAR UWA, Paul Hancock – ICRAR Curtin, Stuart Midgley – DUG, Daniel Mitchell – CSIRO CASS, Phil Schwan – DUG.

Visitors were given a tour of our Perth supercomputer, “Bruce”, and invited to “touch-the-green” dipping their fingers into the special dielectric fluid cooling solution used in our DUG Cool (Patent Publication WA 2017/091862 A1) immersion tanks.