News - Big Bang forensics, IBM to the rescue

[HEXUS]

Processing data from the Square Kilometer Array.

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[ed^chigliak]

Big bang forensics @ home - problem solved. Store the data in 'the clouds' because everyone knows it's the answer to everything. In 2024 nobody is going to want a separate radio telescope because every phone will have this capability. Other than that I think IBM may be onto something.

[miniyazz]

Just how do IBM expect to 'invent the future' - if it were that easy to produce a supercomputer with sufficiently high performance/watt values, what's currently considered infeasible must either be nearly feasible, or IBM have something big up their sleeve..

[Roobubba]

Correction:

It would be unacceptable to use current technology with it's power requirements

should be

It would be unacceptable to use current technology with its power requirements

[13thmonkey]

Correction:

It would be unacceptable to use current technology with it's power requirements

should be

It would be unacceptable to use current technology with its power requirements

well done

I guess now there is a use for the very high capacity links that have been being tested recently, should push storage along nicely, although it may consume a lot of production capacity.