Exascale astronomy: real-time analysis of the transient radio universe

百亿亿次天文学：瞬态射电宇宙的实时分析：这个奖学金项目旨在为澳大利亚和南非强大的平方公里阵列前驱望远镜开发和部署通用超级计算解决方案。“快速射电暴”是一种新的天文现象，起源尚不清楚，它有巨大的潜力以新的方式探索宇宙，但目前已知的只有少数。与此同时，计算机图形学的进步使低成本的并行处理器得以构建，从而彻底改变了射电天文信号处理。澳大利亚和南非的望远镜将用于发现新的快速射电暴，还将进行脉冲星计时计划，该计划旨在探测中子星内部，寻找引力波，并对广义相对论进行新的测试。

Exascale astronomy: real-time analysis of the transient radio universe: This fellowship project aims to develop and deploy a generic supercomputing solution for the powerful square kilometre array precursor telescopes in Australia and South Africa. ‘Fast radio bursts’ are a new astronomical phenomenon of as yet unknown origin, with enormous potential to probe the cosmos in new ways — but only a handful are known. Concurrently, advances in computer graphics have enabled very low-cost parallel processors to be constructed that are revolutionising radio astronomy signal processing. The telescopes in Australia and South Africa will be used to discover new fast radio bursts, and will also be pursuing a pulsar timing program which seeks to probe the interior of neutron stars, search for gravitational waves and make new tests of general relativity.