Le monde diplomatique : http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/
Médiacritique : http://www.acrimed.org/article3686.html

(sorry for erroneous anomyous post)

I would have had first post if only I had the right keyboard ...

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exascale_computing. Not very well explained in th wiki but I think it has a precise meaning. It means "reaching performance in excess of one eaxflop". Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exa.

You could do radio astronomy with this.

who wants a more classical view : http://www.top500.org/lists/2010/06 http://www.top500.org/list/2010/06/100

Mandatory xkcd reference : http://xkcd.com/605/

It is a very complex instrument. And a cosmic is not the first hypothesis in these case. It was very hard to find out the cause of the issue. And they could not risk switching to backup without knowing for sure it would not fail as the first one, and loose the instrument for good. It is not like you can go out there and repair it by trial and errors.

For non french readers, this page actually explains that the staff introduced on the website may not be real people : http://www.lepost.fr/article/2009/03/05/1446490_et-si-l-equipe-de-faismesdevoirs-com-etait-bidon.html#xtor=ADC-218