> The surface area of all the silicon in a supercomputer functions somewhat like a large cosmic-ray detector. I was thinking about this as I read the article.

> The surface area of all the silicon in a supercomputer functions somewhat like a large cosmic-ray detector. I was thinking about this as I read the article. Dedicated cosmic ray detectors are almost certainly more sensitive, have better energy resolution, and cosmic ray localization than watching RAM bits be flipped. But given the relatively large number of supercomputers (compared to large cosmic ray detectors) is there some way to use this information from multiple supercomputers to provide more wide-field coverage of the "cosmic ray sky" and supplement dedicated cosmic-ray detection experiments? Edit: There's a project/app to use smartphone cameras to make a distributed network of cosmic ray detectors: http://wipac.wisc.edu/deco http://wipac.wisc.edu/deco