- NEW YORK (Reuters)
- International Business Machines Corp. (IBM.N) said on Wednesday it sold
the U.S. Air Force a supercomputer to help it to identify unidentified
flying objects. The Air Force"s Space Surveillance Team, based in
Maui, Hawaii, will use the supercomputer to hunt outer space for old satellites,
foreign spacecraft, and other UFOs that may be hurtling toward Earth, IBM
said. The IBM system will be used to detect and identify some 9000 objects
currently flying around in Earth"s orbit. The computer can process
480 billion calculations per second -- making it about 40 times faster
than the IBM "Deep Blue" supercomputer that defeated chess champion
Garry Kasparov in 1997. That processing capability will be used to improve
blurry telescopic images of space objects, allowing Defense Department
military officials to identify the object. The new supercomputer was part
of a $10 million system upgrade, IBM said.
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