P. Chris Broekema

Theses

  • Commodity compute- and data-transport system design in modern large-scale distributed radio telescopes
     PhD Thesis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2020
  • Numerical analysis of the LOFAR remote station beamformer
     Masters thesis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 2004

    • Papers

  • System- and Software-level Architecting Harmonization Practices for Systems-of-Systems
    An exploratory case study on a long-running large-scale scientific instrument
     Héctor Cadavid, Vasilios Adrikopoulos, Paris Avgeriou, and P. Chris Broekema
    18th IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture 2021, Stuttgart, Germany, March 22-26 2021
    Pre-print available on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.12676.
    © 2021 IEEE
  • On optimising cost and value in compute systems for radio astronomy
     P. Chris Broekema, Verity Allan, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Henri E. Bal
    Astronomy and Computing, Volume 30, January 2020
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2019.100337
    Pre-print available on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06606
  • Cobalt: A GPU-based correlator and beamformer for LOFAR
    P. Chris Broekema, J. Jan David Mol, Ronald Nijboer, Alexander S. van Amesfoort, Michiel A. Brentjens, G. Marcel Loose, John W. Romein
    Astronomy and Computing, Volume 23, April 2018, pages 180-192
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2018.04.006
    Pre-print available on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04834.
  • Software-defined networks in large-scale radio telescopes
     P. Chris Broekema, Damiaan R. Twelker, Daniel C. Romão, Paola Grosso, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Henri E. Bal
    Computing Frontiers, May 15-17, Sienna, Italy
    doi:10.1145/3075564.3075594
    © 2017 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in Proceedings of CF'17, May 15-17, 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3075564.3075594.
  • Energy-Efficient Data Transfers in Radio Astronomy with Software UDP RDMA
     Przemyslaw Lenkiewicz, P. Chris Broekema, and Bernard Metzler
    Future Generation Compute Systems, Volume 79, Part 1, February 2018, pages 215-224, Available online 27 March 2017
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.03.027
    Pre-print available on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.07626
    © 2017. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
  • Energy-Efficient Data Transfers in Radio Astronomy with Software UDP RDMA
    Przemyslaw Lenkiewicz, P. Chris Broekema, and Bernard Metzler
    The 3nd International Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data Intensive Science (INDIS) 2016
  • The Square Kilometre Array Science Data Processor - Preliminary Compute Platform Design
    P. Chris Broekema, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, and Henri E. Bal
    Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 10, Number 07, July, 2015, Pages C07004
    doi:10.1088/1748-0221/10/07/C07004
    © 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here with permission for personal use. Not for redistribution.
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  • ExaScale High Performance Computing in the Square Kilometer Array
    P. Chris Broekema, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, and Henri E. Bal
    Proceedings of the 2012 workshop on High-Performance Computing for Astronomy (AstroHPC'12), Delft, the Netherlands, June, 2012
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  • DOME: Towards the ASTRON & IBM Center for ExaScale Technology
    P. Chris Broekema, Albert-Jan Boonstra, Victoria Caparrós Cabezas, Ton Engbersen, Robert Haas, Hanno Holties, Jens Jelitto, Ronald P. Luijten, Peter Maat, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Ronald Nijboer, John W. Romein, and Bert Jan Offrein
    Proceedings of the 2012 workshop on High-Performance Computing for Astronomy (AstroHPC'12), Delft, the Netherlands, June, 2012
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  • Processing LOFAR Telescope Data in Real Time on a Blue Gene/P Supercomputer
    John W. Romein, Jan David Mol, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, and P. Chris Broekema
    URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS'11), Istanbul, Turkey, August, 2011
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  • Performance and Scalability Evaluation of 'Big Memory' on Blue Gene Linux
    Kazutomo Yoshii, Kamil Iskra, Harish Naik, Pete Beckman, and P. Chris Broekema
    International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Volume 25, pp. 148-160, May, 2011, DOI: 10.1177/1094342010369116
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  • The LOFAR Correlator: Implementation and Performance Analysis
    John W. Romein, P. Chris Broekema, Jan David Mol, and Rob V. van Nieuwpoort
    ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'10), Bangalore, India, pp. 169-178, January, 2010
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  • Astronomical Real-Time Streaming Signal Processing on a Blue Gene/L Supercomputer
    John W. Romein, P. Chris Broekema, Ellen van Meijeren, Kjeld van der Schaaf, and Walther H. Zwart
    ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA'06), Cambridge, MA, pp. 59-66, July, 2006
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  • The LOFAR central processing facility architecture.
    K. van der Schaaf, C. Broekema, G. van Diepen, and E. van Meijeren.
    Experimental Astronomy, Volume 17, pp. 43-58, 2004. (also published in "The SKA: an engineering perspective", edited by Peter J. Hall, Springer, 2005)
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