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A GPU based real-time software correlation system for the Murchison Widefield Array prototype

A paper by:

Randall B. Wayth, Lincoln J. Greenhill (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and
Frank H. Briggs (Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University)

Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) are inexpensive commodity hardware that offer Tflop/s theoretical computing capacity. GPUs are well suited to many compute-intensive tasks including digital signal processing. We describe the implementation and [click on link for more...]