Sep 16 – 20, 2024
Knoxville Convention Center (KCC)
US/Eastern timezone
GRCon24 will take place in Knoxville, TN from Sept 16-20

ACCELERATING SETI: ALLEN TELESCOPE ARRAY NEXT-GEN DSP PIPELINE

Sep 18, 2024, 10:15 AM
30m
Ballroom AB (Knoxville Convention Center (KCC))

Ballroom AB

Knoxville Convention Center (KCC)

Talk Radio Astronomy Main Track

Speaker

Luigi Cruz (SETI Institute)

Description

The Allen Telescope Array is a radio interferometer array located in Northern California. Each of the 42 antennas is 6 meters in diameter and is distributed randomly over an area of 350 meters. Each dish is sensitive to an ultra-wideband frequency range from 200 MHz to 12 GHz. While in operation, each dish can produce 1.5 GHz of bandwidth for each polarization adding up to 1.3 Tbps of data.

The huge amount of data produced each second by the telescope has to be processed in real time on-site. This talk will demonstrate how we are combining pre-existing software such as the Breakthrough Listen Accelerated DSP Engine (BLADE) with the NVIDIA Holoscan SDK to create the next-generation data processing pipeline at the ATA. This new architecture helps leverage the full power of the hardware by using Remote Direct Access Memory (RDMA) to facilitate data transfers between the network interface and the graphics card. Also, the extra flexibility provided by Holoscan helps to deploy new processing pipelines faster, and by using its powerful abstractions, deploy machine learning-based algorithms alongside traditional ones.

Talk Length 30 Minutes
Link to Open Source Code https://github.com/luigifcruz/blade

Primary author

Luigi Cruz (SETI Institute)

Presentation materials