Highest Altitude Supercomputer Installed For Telescope Array | Video

1,652 views · Published 21 December 2012 · 6:11 · Indexed 24 October 2026

Channel: VideoFromSpace · 2012 · Science & Technology

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Europe's Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean mountains is the most complex ground-based telescope ever built. It will process data at blazing speeds of 17 quadrillion operations per second using 134+ million processors.

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