There is an article in CIO About the new Siding Springs telescope, SkyMapper. Due to budget constraints they went Open Source as much as possible. Quote from the article:

“Most of our pipeline is comprised of components written by astronomers elsewhere in the world over many decades. We draw together those little units and basically script them all up together with Perl and Python, and that makes for an efficient coding process.”

They are estimating that they will be handling approximately 0.7 Terabyte of data each night....

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