Category Archives: GPU’s

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXI

This annual, international software conference was held in Paris, France, from November 6 through 11, and was attended by roughly 300 people. This year’s topics were: GPUs in Astronomy and Beyond Cloud Computing and Virtualization Statistical Data Analysis and Knowledge … Continue reading

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The “Innovations in Data Intensive Astronomy” Workshop

This week, I attended the “Innovations in Data Intensive Astronomy” Workshop, hosted by NRAO at Green Bank, West Virginia.  The workshop aimed to “.. encourage new ideas for the effective processing, analysis, and interpretation of Tera- to Peta-scale data sets … Continue reading

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GPU’s vs. CPU’s: Apples vs. Oranges?

This will be the last of three posts on processing with GPU’s.  Jan Zverina and Peter Varhol wrote a couple of interesting articles on the applicability of GPU’s and CPU’s in scientific data processing. They made a convincing case that … Continue reading

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GPU’s in Astronomy: Critical Decisions for Early Adopters

Following on from last week’s post about Graphical Processing Units (GPU’s), I have been reading another paper by the same team from the Center for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology in Australia.  This paper, Fluke et al. (2011), … Continue reading

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The Use of Graphical Processing Units (GPU’s) In Astronomy

Graphical Processing Units (GPU’s) were designed in the first instance to handle graphics intensive applications. Their design is radically different from the Central Processing Units that power computers. Whereas a modern CPU has several cores, allowing small-scale parallelisation, a  GPU … Continue reading

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