ESOcast 51: 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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Credit:
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO).
Editing: Herbert Zodet.
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Douglas Pierce-Price.
Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa.
Directed by: Herbert Zodet.
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.

[Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

Very interesting video!
This is an invitation to see an artist theory on the physics of light and time!
Based on just two postulates
1. Is that the quantum wave particle function Ψ or probability function represents the forward passage of time itself
2. Is that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle ∆×∆p×≥h/4π that is formed by the w-function is the same uncertainty we have with any future event within our own ref-frame that we can interact with turning the possible into the actual!

[armitage]

Thanks ESO for Sara Mendes da Costa..!! LuV Her <3 Dr. J is KooL, but Nobody can match her Voice..!