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Status	Returning Series
Original Name	ESOcast
First Air Date	October 30, 2008
Last Air Date	December 21, 2012
Seasons	1
Episodes	50
Episode Runtime	0min
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Original Language	English
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S01E51

All Systems Go for Highest Altitude Supercomputer

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.

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