Astronomical real-time streaming signal processing on a blue Gene/L supercomputer

Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 59-66

  Romein, John W ^a   Broekema, P Chris ^a   Van Meijeren, Ellen ^a   Van Der Schaaf, Kjeld ^a   Zwart, Walther H ^a  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blue Gene L; Correlator; Filtering; LOFAR

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; RADIO TELESCOPES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

CONVENTIONAL CLUSTERS; FIXED ANTENNAS; OPTIMIZED IMPLEMENTATION; STREAMING TELESCOPE DATA;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33749542804     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1148109.1148118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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