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

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

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4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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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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0:00.0	With radio astronomy, we can look across many light years of distance and see incredible
0:04.2	details such as the chemical makeup of a given region.
0:07.8	Kevin Vincent and Rodrigo Tabar from ICRAR are using the world's fastest supercomputer,
0:13.2	along with some sweet Python to process the equivalent of 1,600 hours of standard
0:18.9	definition YouTube video per second.
0:22.1	This is Talk Python to me.
0:23.5	Episode 257 recorded March 26th, 2020.
0:47.7	Thank you. Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.
0:51.7	This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy.
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1:06.4	Kevin Rodrigo, welcome to Talk Python to me.
1:09.0	Thanks, mate.
1:09.7	Hi.
1:09.9	Hey, hey.
1:10.3	Great to have you guys both on the show.
1:12.3	This topic is something that I'm both fascinated with and actually not very knowledgeable about, so it's awesome.
1:18.3	And it has a really cool bunch of Python going on as well.
1:22.0	So I think we can have a lot of fun talking about radio telescopes and just processing ridiculous amounts of data with it.
1:27.3	Yeah, yeah. I think we're talking with Kevin about this the other day that we kind of lose sight of how big this numbers are.
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