Surely this is enough processing power to make a brain

Computer World - 9/18/09 (by Tim Lohman)

Two technologies currently under research by IBM may hold the key to processing and storing the exabyte (1018) of data expected to flow per day from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope project.

The company, which is part of a research consortium that includes Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Curtin University of Technology and the University of Western Australia, is currently working down a technology roadmap that leads to the development of exaflop machine — the processing equivalent of about a billion PCs. It is also developing a new form of solid state storage, 'Racetrack Memory', which may hold the key to enabling the storage of the SKA’s vast amount of astronomical data.

Much of the progress toward solving the massive engineering problems posed by the SKA is still at the whiteboard and analysis stage, but real progress was being made, said the director of IBM's Australia Development Laboratory for ANZ, Glenn Wightwick.

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