Radioastronomy image synthesis on the cell/B.E.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5168 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 749-762

  Varbanescu, Ana Lucia ^a,d   Van Amesfoort, Alexander S ^a   Cornwell, Tim ^b   Mattingly, Andrew ^c   Elmegreen, Bruce G ^d   Van Nieuwpoort, Rob ^e   Van Diepen, Ger ^e   Sips, Henk ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c IBM Australia   (Australia)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHOTOGRAPHY; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

COST-EFFICIENT; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; DYNAMIC DATA; GRIDDING; IMAGE SYNTHESIS; MULTI CORES; MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS; PARALLEL MACHINES; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PARALLELIZATION; PARALLELIZATION STRATEGY; PROCESSING TIME;

RADIO ASTRONOMY;

EID: 52049088984     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85451-7_80     Document Type: Conference Paper

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