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The World's Fastest Image Processor

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the something-to-sort-your-mother's-photo-albums dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "This image processor is not your typical digital camera. It took 6 years, 20 people, and $6 million to build the 'Regional Calorimeter Trigger' (RCT) which will be a component of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, one of the detectors on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. The RCT will fill several racks of space in order to process 4 trillion bits of information per second while analyzing a billion proton collisions per second. The camera is currently being tested at the University of Wisconsin at Madison before being shipped to Geneva in June to participate in the first experiments in 2007."

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  1. Re:The Whoda Whata by OmgTEHMATRICKS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You BMTI, you SOB! WTF? I should KYA with my RBB so that I CCTTAMO and LAYM, YBM. IHURIH YSSOAJ! ASDLKAS MASOKF AKASL! ASDFGHHJK:L ABCDEFGH!!!1 On that note, you know something is related to the Large Hadron Colldier when everything is shortened and condensed. I saw a bunch of 3 letter shortcuts and figured it would be.

  2. That's just amazing by Doener · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nothing more to say here.

  3. Re:The Whoda Whata by Hackeron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    CMS is a Content Management System liks PHPnuke or Plone, or Tikiwiki. In laymen's terms it is basically a dynamic webpage that can be setup from scratch in minutes that multiple people can manipulate.

  4. Um.. by ecryder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You would think they would make her hold that board with some gloves on or something. She might get some fuzzy blue sweater mass (FBSM) stuck in the Pertinax.