Using many-core hardware to correlate radio astronomy signals

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 440-449

  Van Nieuwpoort, Rob V ^a   Romein, John W ^a  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Correlator; LOFAR; Many core

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL DEMANDS; DATA STREAM; DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATION; DEDICATED HARDWARE; ENERGY EFFICIENT; LOFAR; MANY-CORE; MANY-CORE ARCHITECTURE; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; MULTI CORE; NUMBER OF DATUM; PEAK PERFORMANCE; POWER EFFICIENCY; PROCESSING POWER; PROGRAMMABILITY; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; RECENT TRENDS; SMALL ANTENNA; VIRTUAL TELESCOPES;

ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RADAR ASTRONOMY; RADIO ASTRONOMY; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 70450081438     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1542275.1542337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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