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Current and upcoming radio-interferometers are expected to produce volumes of data of increasing size that need to be processed in order to generate the corresponding sky brightness distributions through imaging. This represents an…

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Current computational systems are heterogeneous by nature, featuring a combination of CPUs and GPUs. As the latter are becoming an established platform for high-performance computing, the focus is shifting towards the seamless programming…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-23 Fábio Soldado , Fernando Alexandre , Hervé Paulino

The MWA is a next-generation radio interferometer under construction in remote Western Australia. The data rate from the correlator makes storing the raw data infeasible, so the data must be processed in real-time. The processing task is of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-06 S. Ord , L. Greenhill , R. Wayth , D. Mitchell , K. Dale , H. Pfister , R. G. Edgar

Convolution is a fundamental operation in many applications, such as computer vision, natural language processing, image processing, etc. Recent successes of convolutional neural networks in various deep learning applications put even…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Xiaoming Chen , Jianxu Chen , Danny Z. Chen , Xiaobo Sharon Hu

We present a high-performance, graphics processing unit (GPU)-based framework for the efficient analysis and visualization of (nearly) terabyte (TB)-sized 3-dimensional images. Using a cluster of 96 GPUs, we demonstrate for a 0.5 TB image:…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. H. Hassan , C. J. Fluke , D. G. Barnes , V. A. Kilborn

Graphics processors, or GPUs, have recently been widely used as accelerators in the shared environments such as clusters and clouds. In such shared environments, many kernels are submitted to GPUs from different users, and throughput is an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-22 Jianlong Zhong , Bingsheng He

Convolutional neural networks have recently achieved significant breakthroughs in various image classification tasks. However, they are computationally expensive,which can make their feasible mplementation on embedded and low-power devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Mir Khan , Heikki Huttunen , Jani Boutellier

The GPU as a digital signal processing accelerator for cloud RAN is investigated. A new design for a 5G NR low density parity check code decoder running on a GPU is presented. The algorithm is flexibly adaptable to GPU architecture to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Jonathan Ling , Paul Cautereels

We present a new efficient OpenCL-based Accelerator for large scale Convolutional Neural Networks called Fast Inference on FPGAs for Convolution Neural Network (FFCNN). FFCNN is based on a deeply pipelined OpenCL kernels architecture. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 F. Keddous , H-N. Nguyen , A. Nakib

We present a scheme for the parallelization of quantum Monte Carlo on graphical processing units, focusing on bosonic systems and variational Monte Carlo. We use asynchronous execution schemes with shared memory persistence, and obtain an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-12-10 Y. Lutsyshyn

We present an implementation of a channelizer (F-engine) running on a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). While not the first GPU implementation of a channelizer, we have put significant effort into optimizing the implementation. We are able to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-14 Bruce Merry

We describe a GPU-enabled approach for real-time optical frequency comb spectroscopy in which data is recorded, Fourier transformed, normalized, and fit at data rates up to 2.2 GB/s. As an initial demonstration we have applied this approach…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-26 Sean M. Bresler , David A. Long , Benjamin J. Reschovsky , Yiliang. Bao , Thomas W. LeBrun

We present a mechanism to symbolically gather performance-relevant operation counts from numerically-oriented subprograms (`kernels') expressed in the Loopy programming system, and apply these counts in a simple, linear model of kernel run…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-04-19 James Stevens , Andreas Klöckner

To assess how future progress in gravitational microlensing computation at high optical depth will rely on both hardware and software solutions, we compare a direct inverse ray-shooting code implemented on a graphics processing unit (GPU)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 N. F. Bate , C. J. Fluke , B. R. Barsdell , H. Garsden , G. F. Lewis

[Abridged] We present the results of a highly parallel Kepler equation solver using the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) on a commercial nVidia GeForce 280GTX and the "Compute Unified Device Architecture" programming environment. We apply…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-17 Eric B. Ford

We present a framework to interactively volume-render three-dimensional data cubes using distributed ray-casting and volume bricking over a cluster of workstations powered by one or more graphics processing units (GPUs) and a multi-core…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. H. Hassan , C. J. Fluke , D. G. Barnes

We developed a high-speed image reduction pipeline using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) as hardware accelerators. Astronomers desire detecting EM counterpart of gravitational-wave sources as soon as possible for sharing positional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Masafumi Niwano , Katsuhiro L. Murata , Ryo Adachi , Sili Wang , Yutaro Tachibana , Youichi Yatsu , Nobuyuki Kawai , Takashi Shimokawabe , Ryousuke Itoh

The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has become an integral part of astronomical instrumentation, enabling high-performance online data reduction and accelerated online signal processing. In this paper, we describe a wide-band reconfigurable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jayanth Chennamangalam , Simon Scott , Glenn Jones , Hong Chen , John Ford , Amanda Kepley , D. R. Lorimer , Jun Nie , Richard Prestage , D. Anish Roshi , Mark Wagner , Dan Werthimer

Commercial graphics processors (GPUs) have high compute capacity at very low cost, which makes them attractive for general purpose scientific computing. In this paper we show how graphics processors can be used for N-body simulations to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-06-22 Erich Elsen , V. Vishal , Mike Houston , Vijay Pande , Pat Hanrahan , Eric Darve

Rotation measure (RM) synthesis is a widely used polarization processing algorithm for reconstructing polarized structures along the line of sight. Performing RM synthesis on large datasets produced by telescopes like LOFAR can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 S. S. Sridhar , G. Heald , J. M. van der Hulst