Processing LOFAR telescope data in real time on a blue gene/P supercomputer

2011 30th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, URSIGASS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Romein, John W ^a   Mol, Jan David ^a   Van Nieuwpoort, Rob V ^a   Broekema, P Chris ^a  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM FORM; BLUE GENE; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; HIGH DATA RATE; RE-CONFIGURABLE; REAL TIME; TELESCOPE DATA;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TELESCOPES;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 81255202763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6051270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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