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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

IBM building most powerful computer in history to unravel origin of the universe

  • Machine will process more than an 'exabyte' of data every day - more than the entire internet, and enough to fill 15 million 64GB iPods every day
  • More powerful than a million of today's fastest PCs
  • Attached to huge radio telescope built to 'see back' to dawn of universe 13 billion years ago
  • Machine will output 100 times more information than Large Hadron Collider

IBM is designing a computer which will digest twice as much information every day as the entire internet, sifting through radio waves from space in an effort to unravel the origin of the universe.

The machine will be attached to a 1,900 square mile array of telescope antenna, and will be built to 'suck in' in radio telescope data which will 'see' 13 billion years into the past, back to the dawn of the universe and the Big Bang.

The machine will be millions of times more powerful than the fastest PCs today - and will deal with 100 times more information than the output of the Large Hadron Collider.

The machine will be attached to a 1,900 square mile array of telescope antenna, and will be built to 'suck in' in radio telescope data which will 'see' 13 billion years into the past, back to the dawn of the universe and the Big Bang

The machine will be attached to a 1,900 square mile array of telescope antenna, and will be built to 'suck in' in radio telescope data which will 'see' 13 billion years into the past, back to the dawn of the universe and the Big Bang

The amount of data gathered by the Square Kilometre Array's dishes will be twice the traffic on the entire internet - and 100 times bigger than the output of the Large Hadron Collider

The amount of data gathered by the Square Kilometre Array's dishes will be twice the traffic on the entire internet - and 100 times bigger than the output of the Large Hadron Collider

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2123974/IBM-building-powerful-history--hopes-unravel-origin-universe.html

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