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17-12-2018
UniBoard2 ready for ARTS
| Submitter: | Gijs Schoonderbeek |
| Description: | Half November four UniBoard2 have been installed at the Westerbork telescope for the Apertif Radio Transient System (ARTS). Together (Jan-Pieter de Reijer, Sieds Damstra and the submitter) we have installed the boards in a cabinet and connected the power, control signals and cooling. After years of prototyping it is the first operational liquid cooled processing platform for ASTRON. The heat from the FPGA is directly transferred from the FPGA towards the outside of the building, bypassing the power consuming air conditioning inside the HF-cabin. The UniBoard2s will be used as interface between the APERTIF correlator (using 16 old UniBoards) and the GPU cluster. With each UniBoard2 handling 1 Tera bits per second (Tbps), only 4 boards are needed to handle the full data stream of 3.8 Tbps. UniBoard2 will preprocess data for fast transient search in parallel to ongoing imaging observations. With the UniBoard2s installed at the WSRT, ARTS is a step further to completion. |
| Copyright: | ASTRON |
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