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The incoherent scatter radar (ISR) technique is a powerful remote sensing tool for ionosphere and thermosphere dynamics in the near-Earth space environment. Weak ISR scatter from naturally occurring Langmuir oscillations, or plasma lines,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-12-01 Natalie Hilliard , Juha Vierinen , Philip J. Erickson

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Claudio Gheller , Giuliano Taffoni , David Goz

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

We report a novel application of graphics processing units (GPUs) for the purpose of accelerating the search pipelines for gravitational waves from coalescing binaries of compact objects. A speed-up of 16 fold has been achieved compared…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-25 Shin Kee Chung , Linqing Wen , David Blair , Kipp Cannon , Amitava Datta

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

We present Montblanc, a GPU implementation of the Radio interferometer measurement equation (RIME) in support of the Bayesian inference for radio observations (BIRO) technique. BIRO uses Bayesian inference to select sky models that best…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Simon Perkins , Patrick Marais , Jonathan Zwart , Iniyan Natarajan , Cyril Tasse , Oleg Smirnov

Astrophysical direct $N$-body methods have been one of the first production algorithms to be implemented using NVIDIA's CUDA architecture. Now, almost seven years later, the GPU is the most used accelerator device in astronomy for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-15 Jeroen Bédorf , Evghenii Gaburov , Simon Portegies Zwart

In this paper we describe and demonstrate a C++ code written to determine the trajectory of particles traversing oriented single crystals and a CUDA code written to evaluate the radiation spectra from charged particles with arbitrary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-24 Christian Flohr Nielsen

The GAPS (Global Architecture of Planetary Systems) project is a, mainly Italian, effort for the comprehensive characterization of the architectural properties of planetary systems as a function of the host stars' characteristics by using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-02 Marco Molinaro , Serena Benatti , Andrea Bignamini , Riccardo Claudi

Multivariate Gaussian processes (GPs) offer a powerful probabilistic framework to represent complex interdependent phenomena. They pose, however, significant computational challenges in high-dimensional settings, which frequently arise in…

Astronomers have come to rely on the increasing performance of computers to reduce, analyze, simulate and visualize their data. In this environment, faster computation can mean more science outcomes or the opening up of new parameter spaces…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-14 Benjamin R. Barsdell , David G. Barnes , Christopher J. Fluke

With large-scale Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) surveys of thousands of galaxies currently under-way or planned, the astronomical community is in need of methods, techniques and tools that will allow the analysis of huge amounts of data.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-22 Georgios Bekiaris , Karl Glazebrook , Christopher J. Fluke , Roberto Abraham

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has recently released high-resolution images of accretion flows onto two supermassive black holes. Our physical understanding of these images depends on accuracy and precision of numerical models of plasma…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Monika Moscibrodzka , Aristomenis Yfantis

This report provides an (updated) overview of {\sl Grafalgo}, an open-source library of graph algorithms and the data structures used to implement them. The programs in this library were originally written to support a graduate class in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Jonathan Turner

The Random Phase Approximation (RPA) for correlation energy in the grid-based projector augmented wave (gpaw) code is accelerated by porting to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) architecture. The acceleration is achieved by grouping…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Jun Yan , Lin Li , Christopher O'Grady

Astrophysical radio transients are excellent probes of extreme physical processes originating from compact sources within our Galaxy and beyond. Radio frequency signals emitted from these objects provide a means to study the intervening…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-29 W. Armour , A. Karastergiou , M. Giles , C. Williams , A. Magro , K. Zagkouris , S. Roberts , S. Salvini , F. Dulwich , B. Mort

This paper introduces cuHALLaR, a GPU-accelerated implementation of the HALLaR method proposed in Monteiro et al. 2024 for solving large-scale semidefinite programming (SDP) problems. We demonstrate how our Julia-based implementation…

The impending discovery and monitoring of hundreds of new gravitationally lensed quasars and supernovae from upcoming ground and space based large area surveys such as LSST, \textit{Euclid}, and \textit{Roman} necessitates the development…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Luke Weisenbach

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 paper presents the aspect of use of modern graphics accelerators supporting CUDA technology for high-performance computing in the field of linear algebra. Fully programmable graphic cards have been available for several years for both…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-27 Lukasz Swierczewski