ExaScale high performance computing in the Square Kilometer Array

Astro-HPC '12 - Workshop on High-Performance Computing for Astronomy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 9-16

  Broekema, P Chris ^a,b   Van Nieuwpoort, Rob V ^a,b   Bal, Henri E ^b  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ExaScale Computing; High Performance Computing; Square Kilometer Array; Streaming Computing

Indexed keywords

EXASCALE COMPUTING; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC); PRE-CONSTRUCTION PHASE; SQUARE KILOMETER ARRAY; SQUARE KILOMETER ARRAYS; STATE OF THE ART;

ASTRONOMY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 84863911141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2286976.2286982     Document Type: Conference Paper

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