Big Numbers for a Big Universe

The Square Kilometre Array is the world's largest mega-Science project of the next decade aiming to build enormous radio telescope arrays across Western Australia and Southern Africa. With 160 TeraByte/sec data generated in just stage one of the 50 year project and over 260 PetaFLOPS compute requirements it presents unprecedented data movement and processing challenges in its correlators, the detection and timing of pulsars, supercomputing pipelines for generating images, and scalable middleware. This talk will outline the project and its scientific goals, some of the key data processing pipelines, and will discuss the progress made by the design teams toward overcoming its computing challenges.