07 December 2018
SKA Regional Centres (SRCs) were high on the agenda when SKA Organisation Director-General Prof. Philip Diamond travelled to China this week to meet the deputy mayor of Shanghai’s Municipal Government, Qing Wu. After receiving an overview of the current progress of the project, Mr Wu confirmed that the Shanghai Municipal Government will support the building of a Chinese SKA data centre, part of a global network of computing centres which will store and provide access to SKA science data products for astronomers around the world.
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