New supercomputer shows what's possible with ASKAP data

Australia's newest supercomputer, Setonix, at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre in Perth has produced a highly detailed image of a supernova remnant immediately after the computing system's first stage was made available to researchers.

The supernova remnant's dataset was selected to test the processing software on Setonix, given the challenges involved in imaging such a complex object.

While Setonix is ramping up to full operations so is ASKAP, which is currently wrapping up a series of pilot surveys and will soon undertake even larger and deeper surveys of the sky. Setonix will be used to process the data collected by ASKAP.

Added by Gabby Russell on 2022-08-10