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BrahMap: A scalable and modular map-making framework for the CMB experiments

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-11-05 v2 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments have reached an era of unprecedented precision and complexity. Aiming to detect the primordial B-mode polarization signal, these experiments will soon be equipped with 10410^{4} to 10510^{5} detectors. Consequently, future CMB missions will face the substantial challenge of efficiently processing vast amounts of raw data to produce the initial scientific outputs - the sky maps - within a reasonable time frame and with available computational resources. To address this, we introduce BrahMap, a new map-making framework that will be scalable across both CPU and GPU platforms. Implemented in C++ with a user-friendly Python interface for handling sparse linear systems, BrahMap employs advanced numerical analysis and high-performance computing techniques to maximize the use of super-computing infrastructure. This work features an overview of the BrahMap's capabilities and preliminary performance scaling results, with application to a generic CMB polarization experiment.

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@article{arxiv.2501.16122,
  title  = {BrahMap: A scalable and modular map-making framework for the CMB experiments},
  author = {Avinash Anand and Giuseppe Puglisi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.16122},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Submitted to 33rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP 2025)

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