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Caption: Figure 8.
EHT digital VLBI backend as installed at the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM) PV 30 m telescope in Spain. The upper portion of the right-hand side rack holds the four R2DBE units. Two block downconverters are installed near the middle. The VLBI backend computer is mounted on the bottom right. The rack on the left and the lower portion of the rack on the right hold the four Mark 6 recorders with four disk modules each, providing a total of about 1 PB in data storage.
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