Certainly not at the time. Although buying the GPUs that CHIME uses now would be a lot cheaper. What I meant is that where cost could be minimized it was. Relat

Certainly not at the time. Although buying the GPUs that CHIME uses now would be a lot cheaper. What I meant is that where cost could be minimized it was. Relative to other radio telescopes of it's effective aperture it was/is spectacularly cheap.