TheSkyNet news thread - 7/11/2011

[shadowscotland]

Firstly a big thanks for halz for the previous news and the week of stats grabs.
Well Spain and tooth Pain are both now a recent memory so on with the double issue of the news.

Team OcUK are still climbing ever upwards, last week making it to page one glory with 15th.
And now currently at cell 12 but will our sights set on a top ten position.
Our average team PPD is almost at 4k not bad for 17 active members
Four new members in the news this week, so a warm welcome to:
Mr.B, edgedemon, fr4j0 and SitaRam

 

[shadowscotland]

All ranked in gobal position at the end of last week / today.
Some major changes in the rankings, as the stomp column on the previous page also shows
Your rainbow should be slopping down

Rainbows should be upwards now

 

[shadowscotland]

Actual values now, continuing the rainbow colour system.

 

[shadowscotland]

Indeed TT

Edit: Coloured graphs are ranked by average PPD now
High/Average/Low are rank by position - so if someone to the right of you has a higher bar - SLACKER!

 

[shadowscotland]

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WA high-tech business helps astronomers discover the Universe
A quest to study the earliest stars and galaxies in the Universe is underway, with Australia's local industry building the first major pieces of a
revolutionary new radio telescope in Western Australia, as part of the Murchison Wide-field Array.Murchison Wide-field Array (MWA) industry
partner and Fremantle-based high-technology company, Poseidon Scientific Instruments (PSI), has been awarded a $1.3m contract by Curtin
University to build 16 packages of sensitive electronics, using a smart design suited to the environmental and radio-quiet conditions of outback WA.

The MWA is being built by an Australian consortium led by The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), a joint venture
between Curtin University and The University of Western Australia, in close collaboration with US, Indian and New Zealand partners.

The MWA is located at the Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory, a site operated by CSIRO and a proposed core site for the multi-billion dollar
Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

The MWA will be the first of three official SKA precursor telescopes to be completed, proving the technology and science on the path to the SKA.
Australia and New Zealand are bidding to host the SKA, with the site location to be decided in February 2012.

Source - ICRAR

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)

The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research

Project Outages - Curtin IT Services

Find OcUK on theSkynet (you need to be logged in on theSkynet.org)



Acknowledgements

All banners and final post in news are courtesy of halz

 

[shadowscotland]

You only get 5 images per post - my guess was a mod changed yours last week.
Or has this changed?

Top 5 would be fantastic - major advert for the shop/forum too

Whats people's view on the colours btw?

 

[shadowscotland]

But you can use VMware to use the hyper threads.
Bandwidth with be the biggest problem for a skynet stompy - massively more data downloaded that any other DC project

like the sig update halz