University of Cambridge picks Dell to help power SKA, the world's largest telescope

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SKA project aims to harness the power of big data to help scientists observe the very edges of the universe

The University of Cambridge has expanded its Dell-powered high-performance computing (HPC) cluster, doubling its computational power in anticipation of a big-data science project involving the worl...

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