UCT’s cloud data centre gets proof-of-concept projects off the ground
The first step in a three-year pilot project to establish an African cloud-based data centre has been achieved, thanks to an initiative by four South African universities. According to the University of Cape Town (UCT), the rapid advance in scientific knowledge has created such vast and complex quantities of information, or big data, prompting researchers to develop new way to capture, analyse and share it. UCT, along with North-West University (NWU), the University of Pretoria and the University of the Western Cape, is behind the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (Idia), set up to deal with the big data challenges arising from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA is a multibillion-rand international project that will result in the world’s biggest and most sensitive radio telescope. It will enable scientists to better understand the history of the universe and will be hosted at two core sites, SA and Australia, with some outstations in other countries. The...
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