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High Performance Computing as Linchpin in Next-generation Radio Telescopes
IIC Colloquium Series
April 15, 2009
Dr. Lincoln Greenhill
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Frontier astronomy facilities in the next decade will pose serious and data-intensive science challenges. In a new paradigm for radio astronomy, high-performance computing will be front and center as a critical element of the interferometric arrays that will make tomographic maps [click on link for more...]
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The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a radio telescope currently under construction in Australia. It is an interferometer, consisting of over 500 antenna tiles spread over an area of about a square kilometer. The signals from these tiles are synthesized into images by the Real Time System (RTS).
In this talk, Richard Edgar describes why [click on link for more...]
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The following news was released April 2, 2009 by NVIDIA Corporation. The company’s release can be found here.
SANTA CLARA, CA—NVIDIA Corporation, inventor of the GPU, today announced that Harvard University has been recognized as a CUDA Center of Excellence for its commitment to teaching GPU Computing and its integration of CUDA™-enabled GPUs for a host [click on link for more...]
