Fusion-io announced another software product, its ION Data Accelerator software that it plans to release in October 2012.

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The chip is a graphics accelerator, a specialized supercomputer of sorts that handles the flood of data needed to create moving two- and three-dimensional images.

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Once the upgraded Fermilab neutrino beam starts, the NOvA detector will take data every 1.3 seconds to synchronize with the Fermilab accelerator .

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Even though these graphics chips whip up close to 1 million polygons a second, they bog down in the data, which can travel only so fast between the graphics accelerator and the memory chips nearby.

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Beyond its obvious visual appeal, data like this should give physicists at the DOE's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory insight into the nature of neutrinos (some of which are said to have been issued from the Big Bang) and, by extension, the origins of our ever-expanding universe.

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Accelerator goes beyond just location to factor in the browser, OS and other criteria that could affect a data packet's journey.

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