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This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity ALMA correlator supercomputer. ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array) is an array of 66 radio telescopes in Chile's Atacama desert. Data from the telescopes is combined by interferometry, making it one of the world's most powerful telescopes. Seen here are some of the racks of the ALMA correlator, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. This is one of four quadrants of the correlator. The full system has four identical quadrants, with over 134 million processors, performing up to 17 quadrillion operations per second. Observations began in late 2011. This image was published in 2012.
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