[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 20

[Mike Chinander]

Has the Superconducting Super Collider been revived?

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 7:38 AM, Roland Hughes <roland at logikalsolutions.com>
wrote:

Read up on seismic testing or stuff happening with the Super Colliding
> Super Conductor. In the case of SCSC many thousands of disposable chip
> "sensors" running an application to pick up one or a few certain readings
> are streaming that stuff back to the only box which can handle them, big
> iron. IBM was never the fastest computationally, but when it comes to data
> throughput to/from disk they are a 14" city water main and their nearest
> competitor is happy the one day per week they achieve being a fire hose.
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