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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You know what those observers will use it for .... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-21 09:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

All of that computer power, access to the internet..... remote location....
You know what this will be used for right?
Giant Porn Server? (GPS)