ESOcast Season 1 All Systems Go for Highest Altitude Supercomputer 2012
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One of the most powerful supercomputers in the world has now been fully installed and tested at its remote, high altitude site in the Andes of northern Chile. This marks one of the major remaining milestones toward completion of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the most elaborate ground-based telescope in history. The special-purpose ALMA correlator has over 134 million processors and performs up to 17 quadrillion operations per second, a speed comparable to the fastest general-purpose supercomputer in operation today.
- Released: 2012-12-21
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- Genre: Documentary
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1. James Bond at Paranal 2008-10-30
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6. Lightest Exoplanet Found 2009-04-21
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11. New Exoplanets Found 2009-12-11
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16. E-ELT Site Chosen 2010-04-26
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18. Exoplanet Caught on the Move 2010-06-10
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19. Photographers of the Night 2010-07-15
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20. Richest planetary system discovered 2010-08-24
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22. The most distant galaxy ever measured 2010-10-20
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23. A telescope's wire to the world 2010-11-04
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24. First planet of extragalactic origin 2010-11-18
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26. Life and Leisure at Paranal 2011-02-01
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27. An ESO Astronomer at Work 2011-03-18
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28. ESO Hidden Treasures Competition 2011-04-19
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29. Running a Desert Town 2011-05-12
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31. Pandora's Cluster 2011-06-22
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32. Most Distant Quasar Found 2011-06-29
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33. Under Chilean Skies 2011-08-11
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35. Fifty New Exoplanets 2011-09-12
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36. ALMA Opens Its Eyes 2011-10-03
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38. Faraway Eris is Pluto’s twin 2011-10-26
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50. Chile Chill 1 2012-11-15
