Accelerating radio astronomy cross-correlation with graphics processing units

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 178-192

  Clark, M A ^a   Plante, P C La ^b   Greenhill, L J ^c  

^a NVIDIA   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

correlation; graphics processing units; radio astronomy; signal processing

Indexed keywords

BETTER PERFORMANCE; CROSS CORRELATIONS; FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY IMPLEMENTATIONS; GPU IMPLEMENTATION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; HIGHLY PARALLELS; PIPELINED ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); OPTICAL CORRELATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84877302065     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: 17412846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342012444794     Document Type: Article

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