Delivering SKA Science

Understand

The SKA will be capable of producing a stream of science data products that are Exa-scale in terms of their storage and processing requirements.

• This Google-scale enterprise is attracting considerable international interest and excitement from within the industrial and academic communities.
• In this chapter we examine the data flow, storage and processing requirements of a number of key SKA survey science projects to be executed on the baseline SKA1 configuration.
• Based on a set of conservative assumptions about trends for HPC and storage costs, and the data flow process within the SKA Observatory, it is apparent that survey projects of the scale proposed will potentially drive construction and operations costs beyond the current anticipated SKA1 budget.