The wiring installation of the five-hundred-meter aperture spherical telescope (FAST), the world's largest radio telescope, has been completed in southwest China's Guizhou Province.
China will harness Supercomputer Skyeye-1 to provide support to the radio telescope, which has a dish the size of 30 football fields.
A researcher with the Institute of Computing Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASICT) said that FAST will need more than 10 petabyte in its first-phase storage demand. It would also have a daily peak demand of more than 200 teraflops per second during normal operation.
The radio telescope is expected to be completed in 2016. Its construction started in March 2011 in a natural bowl-shaped valley in southwest Guizhou.