World’s fastest image processor aids search for elusive form of matter

Pamela Klabbers, an associate scientist in the Department of Physics, holds a large parallel processing computer card, one of 300 such cards to be mounted into 18 crates to collectively create a massive image processor capable of analyzing one trillion bits of data per second. The scientist is working with engineers at UW-Madison to develop and test the imaging processor for use as part of the image detector at CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo: Jeff Miller