All Systems Go For Highest Altitude Supercomputer

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 21, 2012 @09:10AM from the going-for-the-high-score dept.

An anonymous reader writes "One of the most powerful supercomputers in the world has now been fully installed and tested at its remote, high altitude site in the Andes of northern Chile. It's a critical part of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the most elaborate ground-based astronomical telescope in history. The special-purpose ALMA correlator has over 134 million processors and performs up to 17 quadrillion operations per second, a speed comparable to the fastest general-purpose supercomputer in operation today."

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and by ozduo · 2012-12-21 09:14 · Score: 2, Funny

was it running windows 8 ?

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1. Re:and by earlzdotnet · 2012-12-21 09:23 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Better question: Why doesn't it have a touch screen? A computer isn't "modern" without a touch screen
Re:Ray Kurzweil was right... by VortexCortex · 2012-12-21 10:31 · Score: 3, Funny

Why did you climb the mountain oh Super Computer?
Because I can, man... Well, that and latency is a bitch, or I'd have telecommuted to work.