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SKA, AWS offer grants for innovative cloud services

Big Data

By:  
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered to launch the ‘AstroCompute in the Cloud’ grant programme to attract innovative tools and techniques to process, store and analyse the global astronomy community’s vast amounts of astronomic data in the cloud. The cloud computing grant programme aimed to stimulate innovators to develop cloud-based solutions to mitigate the massive data output – expected to be several times the global Internet traffic – from the “big data” science project spanning Africa and Australia.
 
 
 
 
 

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