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High-performance computing for SKA transient search: Use of FPGA-based accelerators
R. AAFREEN R. ABHISHEK B. AJITHKUMAR ARUNKUMAR M. VAIDYANATHAN INDRAJIT V. BARVE SAHANA BHATTRAMAKKI SHASHANK BHAT B. S. GIRISH ATUL GHALAME Y. GUPTA HARSHAL G. HAYATNAGARKAR P. A. KAMINI A. KARASTERGIOU L. LEVIN S. MADHAVI M. MEKHALA M. MICKALIGER5 V. MUGUNDHAN ARUN NAIDU J. OPPERMANN B. ARUL PANDIAN N. PATRA A. RAGHUNATHAN JAYANTA ROY SHIV SETHI B. SHAW K. SHERWIN O. SINNEN S. K. SINHA K. S. SRIVANI B. STAPPERS C. R. SUBRAHMANYA THIAGARAJ PRABU C. VINUTHA Y. G. WADADEKAR HAOMIAO WANG C. WILLIAMS
TECHNICAL REVIEW Volume 44 Published: 9 February 2023 Article ID 0011
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Keywords
Accelerator ;CASPER ;FPGA ;intel ;OpenCL ;PCI ;PCIe ;pulsar ;RFSoC ;SKA ;VHDL ;Xilinx. -
Abstract
This paper presents high-performance computing efforts with FPGA for the accelerated pulsar/transient search for the square kilometre array (SKA). Case studies are presented from within SKA and pathfinder telescopes highlighting future opportunities. It reviews the scenario that has shifted from offline processing of the radio telescope data to digitizing several hundreds/thousands of antenna outputs over huge bandwidths, forming several hundreds of beams, and processing the data in the SKA real-time pulsar search pipelines. A briefaccount of the different architectures of the accelerators, primarily, the new generation field programmable gate array-based accelerators, showing their critical roles to achieve high-performance computing and in handlingthe enormous data volume problems of the SKA is presented here. It also presents power-performance efficiency of this emerging technology and presents potential future scenarios.
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Author Affiliations
R. AAFREEN1 R. ABHISHEK2 B. AJITHKUMAR3 ARUNKUMAR M. VAIDYANATHAN1 INDRAJIT V. BARVE4 SAHANA BHATTRAMAKKI2 SHASHANK BHAT2 B. S. GIRISH2 ATUL GHALAME5 Y. GUPTA1 HARSHAL G. HAYATNAGARKAR1 P. A. KAMINI2 A. KARASTERGIOU6 L. LEVIN5 S. MADHAVI2 M. MEKHALA3 M. MICKALIGER55 V. MUGUNDHAN2 ARUN NAIDU6 J. OPPERMANN7 B. ARUL PANDIAN2 N. PATRA8 A. RAGHUNATHAN2 JAYANTA ROY3 SHIV SETHI2 B. SHAW5 K. SHERWIN7 O. SINNEN7 S. K. SINHA9 K. S. SRIVANI2 B. STAPPERS5 C. R. SUBRAHMANYA2 THIAGARAJ PRABU2 C. VINUTHA2 Y. G. WADADEKAR3 HAOMIAO WANG7 C. WILLIAMS6
- Engineering for Research, Thoughtworks Technologies, Pune 411006, India.
- Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru 560080, India.
- NCRA, Pune 411007, India.
- IIA, Bengaluru 560034, India.
- University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
- University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK.
- University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.
- IIT Indore, Indore 453441, India.
- IISc, Bengaluru 560012, India.
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Dates
- Published
- 9 February 2023
- Manuscript received
- 31 March 2022
- Accepted
- 2 September 2022
- Final version published online
- 9 February 2023
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