In order to support space exploration, China has planned to connect its Supercomputer Skyeye-1 to the world's largest radio telescope, which has been built in its Guizhou Province. Skyeye-1 has the capability of a quadrillion computing operations per second.

Official media reported that the telescope, with a dish the size of 30 football fields and located deep in the mountains of Guizhou, is presently undergoing assembling process.

After its completion in 2016, the 500-metre aperture spherical telescope (FAST) will be the world's largest telescope, surpassing the Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, which is only 300 meters in diameter, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

According to the engineers working on the telescope, a radio signal of as far as tens of billions of light years away could be easily caught by the telescope. The successful completion of this telescope will extend china's tracking scope from moon's orbit to the outside edge of the solar system upon its completion next year.

FAST needed a strong computing system to support massive data storage and processing, therefore the Institute of Computing Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASICT), Dawning Information Industry Co. and China (Guizhou) Skyeye Group signed agreement last November to jointly build a Qiannan Super Computing Centre in Guizhou.

Zhang Peiheng, a researcher with the CASICT, said in a statement that FAST daily peak demand will be above 200 teraflops per second and its first-phase storage demand will be more than 10 petabyte.

Skyeye-1 with its outstanding capabilities will be able to easily meet the demands of the telescope, said Ren Jingyang, vice president of Dawning Information Industry Co.