The fourth of July, Erik Vermij successfully defended his phd research at the Delft University of Technology. He worked in the DOME project, focusing on novel hardware architectures supporting the needs of the SKA as well as many other types of data-intensive applications.
The thesis and propositions can be found here: http://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:9976d272-a596-4ad0-ab9e-de230cd0aba3