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SKA – A Bridge to far,
or not?
Dr. Ir. Ton Engbersen1), Dr. Ir. Albert-Jan Boonstra2),
Sci. Dir. ASTRON & IBM Center for Exascale Technology
Research GmbH, Zurich – Switzerland
2) ASTRON – Dwingeloo, Netherlands
1) IBM
SKA 1-2: What is it?
~0.25M Antennae
.07GHz-0.45GHz.
~0.25M Antennae
.5GHz-1.7GHz.
Next generation radio astronomy:
SKA-1: Start of deployment 2020
SKA-2: Start of deployment 2022+
~3000 Dishes
3GHz-10GHz.
SKA = Square Kilometer Array
SKA: Data Processing?
Processing Engine
~ 10 Pb/s
~ 1 PB/Day.
86’400 sec/day
330 disks/day
14 ExaByte/day
120’000 disks/yr
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109 samples/second * .5M antennae: 0.5 1015 samples/sec.
2.
3.5 109 samples/second * .5M antennae: 1.7 1015 samples/sec.
3.
2 1010 samples/second * 3K antennae: 6.1013 samples/sec
Sum = 2 1015 samples/second @ 86400 seconds/day:
170 1018 (Exa) samples/day.
14 Exabytes/day (minimum).
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Assume 10-12x reduction @antenna:
1 Exabyte:
140 “bible” books per
Person on Earth !
LOFAR retro-analysis:
Source: John Romein - ASTRON
LOFAR -> SKA extrapolation:
Power (kW)
SKA-1 AA-low Front-end + CSP
Both assume extremely efficient ADC:
“90GS/s 8b 667mW 64x Interleaved SAR ADC in
32nm Digital SOI CMOS – ISSCC 2014.
Using off-the shelf parts: ~ 1 Watt 1.5G/s  add
0.6MW.
Add 2x for cooling
Add 1.5x for data transport and ‘headroom’
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~ 1.2MW
~ 6MW
Power (kW)
SKA-2 AA-low Front-end + CSP
SKA-OFF.SE.ARC-SKO-SRS-001-1 30.2 Power SKA_1 low = 7MW
LOFAR -> SKA extrapolation:
Full array and full bandwidth imaging:
Source: R. Jongerius – CALIM 2014
Note: strongly dependent on total antennae and baselines (O3)
SKA-OFF.SE.ARC-SKO-SRS-001-1 30.2 Power SDP = 2-3.5MW
LOFAR -> SKA extrapolation:
Full array and full bandwidth imaging:
Source: R. Jongerius – CALIM 2014
SKA-OFF.SE.ARC-SKO-SRS-001-1 30.2 Power SDP = 2-3.5MW
Add cooling: ~2EOps/MW 
What does this mean?
2027
10,000,000.00
2 Eflop/1MW = 2*106 MFLOPS/Watt 
SKA-1
Data from (green)TOP500.org
< 10 Years
1,000,000.00
20-30x
200-300x
10,000.00
1,000.00
MFLOPS/Watt - full
10x
MFLOPS/Watt -Green
100.00
10.00
5 Years
1.00
2022-11
2021-11
2020-11
2019-11
2018-11
2017-11
2016-11
2015-11
2014-11
2013-11
2012-11
2011-11
2010-11
2009-11
2008-11
2008-2
MFLOPS/Watt
100,000.00
Year
Dome Project:
Research Streams…
Sustainable
Computing
Nanophotonics
Data & Streaming
…are mapped to research projects:
System Analysis
Algorithms & Machines
Computing
- Microservers
- Accelerators
Transport
- Nanophotonics
- Real-Time
Communications
- Compressive
Sampling
Storage
- Access Patterns
Dome Project:
Research Streams…
Sustainable
Computing
Nanophotonics
Data & Streaming
…are mapped to research projects:
System Analysis
Algorithms & Machines
Computing
- Microservers
- Accelerators
Transport
- Nanophotonics
- Real-Time
Communications
- Compressive
Sampling
This workstream is (amongst
other things) dealing with
architecture definition
Storage
- Access Patterns
Access patterns: Data units assignment example
(1000 100GB chunks)
Red: SSD
 Green: HDD
 Blue: Tape

Budget = $23,000
Mean Response = 0.27 sec
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Budget = $35,000
Mean Response = 0.0017 sec
Sep 10 2013
IBM Confidential
Optical Modules
Microserver
Microserver cards
5cm
128 cards,
>1500 cores
13cm
IBM at CeBIT 2013 – Rethink your business
Development of a
new ADC
generating 1 billion
conversions per
second operating
at only 1V will be
critical in
converting the
radio signals to
digital.
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Promise:
LF-AA front end for < 2 MW
(all-in!)
See: ICASSP2014, May – Florence, Italy
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