SkyMapper Telescope: open source powered astronomy

Courtesy Linux Today  Mon, 06/15/2009 - 09:32

CIO: "What do the universe, open source software, a 12,000-core supercomputer, a cool $2.5 million of high-grade silicon and one of the country's largest data sets have in common?

They all underpin a five-year Australian initiative to map and study the observable universe from the southern hemisphere."

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