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#257: Exploring the galaxy with the fastest supercomputer, Python, and radio astronomy

#257: Exploring the galaxy with the fastest supercomputer, Python, and radio astronomy

Update: 2020-03-282
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With radio astronomy, we can look across many light-years of distance and see incredible details such as the chemical makeup of a given region. Kevin Vinsen and Rodrigo Tobar from ICRAR are using the world's fastest supercomputer along with some sweet Python to process the equivalent of 1,600 hours of standard- definition YouTube video per second.
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Dec 25th
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#257: Exploring the galaxy with the fastest supercomputer, Python, and radio astronomy

#257: Exploring the galaxy with the fastest supercomputer, Python, and radio astronomy

Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy)