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Intel Array Building Blocks is a high-level data-parallel programming environment designed to produce scalable and portable results on existing and upcoming multi- and many-core platforms. We have chosen several mathematical kernels - a…

Performance · Computer Science 2012-11-08 Volker Weinberg

We describe a new 512-CPU Beowulf cluster with Teraflop performance dedicated to problems in computational astrophysics. The cluster incorporates a cubic network topology based on inexpensive commodity 24-port gigabit switches and point to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Dubinski , Robin Humble , Ue-Li Pen , Chris Loken , Peter Martin

The distributed training of foundation models, particularly large language models (LLMs), demands a high level of communication. Consequently, it is highly dependent on a centralized cluster with fast and reliable interconnects. Can we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ji Qi , WenPeng Zhu , Li Li , Ming Wu , YingJun Wu , Wu He , Xun Gao , Jason Zeng , Michael Heinrich

Manufacturers have been developing new graphics processing unit (GPU) nodes with large capacity, high bandwidth memory and very high bandwidth intra-node interconnects. This enables moving large amounts of data between GPUs on the same node…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Mino Woo , Terry Jordan , Tarak Nandi , Jean Francois Dietiker , Christopher Guenther , Dirk Van Essendelft

The modern Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) relativistic delay model, as documented in the IERS Conventions refers to the time epoch when the signal passes one of two stations of an interferometer baseline (selected arbitrarily from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-22 Oleg Titov , Alexei Melnikov , Yulia Lopez

Radio astronomy observatories with high throughput back end instruments require real-time data processing. While computing hardware continues to advance rapidly, development of real-time processing pipelines remains difficult and…

Tractography fiber clustering using diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a crucial strategy for white matter (WM) parcellation. Current methods primarily use the geometric information of fibers (i.e., the spatial trajectories) to group similar fibers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Jin Wang , Bocheng Guo , Yijie Li , Junyi Wang , Yuqian Chen , Jarrett Rushmore , Nikos Makris , Yogesh Rathi , Lauren J O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

This paper presents the sixth part to the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) Calibrator Survey. It contains the positions and maps of 264 sources of which 169 were not previously observed with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-21 L. Petrov , Y. Y. Kovalev , E. B. Fomalont , D. Gordon

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a radio-astronomical technique in which the correlated signal from various baselines is combined into an image of highest angular resolution. Due to sparsity of the measurements, this imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Hendrik Müller , Andrei Lobanov

The application of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been limited to date, despite the technique offering many advantages over traditional single-dish SETI observations. In…

This paper describes specification and early design of back end signal processing subsystems for the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) space telescope. The "back end" consists of two subsystems. First, the…

The AuScope geodetic Very Long Baseline Interferometry array consists of three new 12 m radio telescopes and a correlation facility in Australia. The telescopes at Hobart (Tasmania), Katherine (Northern Territory) and Yarragadee (Western…

This paper introduces a new interconnection network topology called Balanced Varietal Hypercube (BVH), suitable for massively parallel systems. The proposed topology being a hybrid structure retains almost all the attractive properties of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-08-09 Chitta Ranjan Tripathy , Nibedita Adhikari

FPGA-based hardware accelerators have received increasing attention mainly due to their ability to accelerate deep pipelined applications, thus resulting in higher computational performance and energy efficiency. Nevertheless, the amount of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-23 R. Nepomuceno , R. Sterle , G. Valarini , M. Pereira , H. Yviquel , G. Araujo

Address translation and protection play important roles in today's processors, supporting multiprocessing and enforcing security. Historically, the design of the address translation mechanisms has been closely tied to the instruction set.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Xuan Guo , Robert Mullins

Since its observation in 2019, the first image of a super-massive black hole using Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) with an Earth-scale baseline has generated much scientific and public interest, including the possible extension of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Eric Burt , Todd Ely , Geoff Bower , Joe Lazio , Marin Anderson , Sonia Hernandez

The Viterbi algorithm is a key operator for structured sequence inference in modern data systems, with applications in trajectory analysis, online recommendation, and speech recognition. As these workloads increasingly migrate to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Ziheng Deng , Xue Liu , Jiantong Jiang , Yankai Li , Qingxu Deng , Xiaochun Yang

This letter presents a distributed trajectory planning method for multi-agent aerial tracking. The proposed method uses a Dynamic Buffered Voronoi Cell (DBVC) and a Dynamic Inter-Visibility Cell (DIVC) to formulate the distributed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yunwoo Lee , Jungwon Park , H. Jin Kim

Context: Phase referencing is a standard calibration technique in radio interferometry, particularly suited for the detection of weak sources close to the sensitivity limits of the interferometers. However, effects from a changing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 I. Marti-Vidal , E. Ros , M. A. Perez Torres , J. C. Guirado , S. Jimenez-Monferrer , J. M. Marcaide

We propose a probabilistic framework for performing simultaneous estimation of source structure and fringe-fitting parameters in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations. As a first step, we demonstrate this technique through…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Iniyan Natarajan , Roger Deane , Ilse van Bemmel , Huib Jan van Langevelde , Des Small , Mark Kettenis , Zsolt Paragi , Oleg Smirnov , Arpad Szomoru