Radio astronomy beam forming on many-core architectures

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 26th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1105-1116

  Sclocco, Alessio ^a   Varbanescu, Ana Lucia ^a   Mol, Jan David ^b   Van Nieuwpoort, Rob V ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

auto tuning; beam forming; many core architectures; Radio astronomy

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTIVE SOLUTIONS; AUTOTUNING; BEAM FORMERS; BLUE GENE; CELLULAR NETWORK; CPU SYSTEMS; DATA RATES; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; MAGNETIZED NEUTRON STARS; MANY-CORE ARCHITECTURE; MICROWAVE IMAGING; MULTI CORE; NOVEL DESIGN; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; PERFORMANCE PORTABILITY; POWER EFFICIENCY; POWER EFFICIENT; POWER USAGE; RADIO SOURCES; REAL TIME;

ANTENNAS; BEAM FORMING NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA HANDLING; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; HARDWARE; INSTRUMENTS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RADAR SYSTEMS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO TELESCOPES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84866875424     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2012.102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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