Lights glowing on the ALMA correlator

The ALMA correlator, 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 view shows lights glowing on some of the racks of the correlator in the ALMA Array Operations Site Technical Building. This photograph shows 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.

Credit:

ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), S. Argandoña

About the Image

Id:eso1253c
Type:Photographic
Release date:21 December 2012, 15:00
Related releases:eso1253
Size:3995 x 2831 px

About the Object

Name:Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Facility
Category:ALMA

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