The software now being developed for the purpose will be trialled on a small subset of the infrastructure before being rolled out across the network.
The SKA is an immense computing challenge, says Dr Chris Pearson, astronomy group leader at RAL Space, based on the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire.
"We're talking something like 600 petabytes (600 million gigabytes) per year of data coming out of the SKA, to be delivered to astronomers worldwide," he told BBC News.
"So it's a scaling problem, it's a processing problem, it's a data transfer problem."