An efficient work-distribution strategy for gridding radio-telescope data on GPUs

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 321-330

  Romein, John W ^a  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Convolutions; GPU; Gridding; Sky image

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENT; GPU; GRIDDING; MULTIPLE PLATFORMS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PROCESSING STEPS; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; SCALING PROPERTIES; SKY IMAGE; TELESCOPE DATA; TEXTURE INTERPOLATION;

CONVOLUTION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; TELESCOPES;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 84864046882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2304576.2304620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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