John W. Romein

Papers

• The Tensor-Core Beam Former: a High-Speed Signal-Processing Library for Multidisciplinary Use
  Leon Oostrum, Bram Veenboer, Ronald Rook, Pieter Kruizinga, Michael Brown and John W. Romein
  IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'25), Milan, Italy, June 3-7, 2025
• PowerSensor3: A Fast and Accurate Open Source Power Measurement Tool
  Steven van der Vlugt, Leon Oostrum, Gijs Schoonderbeek, Ben van Werkhoven, Bram Veenboer, Krijn Doekemeijer and John Romein
  IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS'25), Ghent, Belgium, May 11-13, 2025
• Prospects of GPU Tensor Core Correlation for the SMA and the ngEHT
  Wei Yu, John W. Romein, L. Jonathan Dursi, Ru-Sen Lu, Adrian Pope, Gareth Callanan, Dominic W. Pesce, Lindy Blackburn, Bruce Merry, Ranjani Srinivasan, Jongsoo Kim, and Jonathan Weintroub
  Galaxies 11(1):13. January 2023,
• Reduced-Precision Acceleration of Radio-Astronomical Imaging on Reconfigurable Hardware
  Stefano Corda, Bram Veenboer, Ahsan Javed Awan, John W. Romein, Roel Jordans, Akash Kumar, Albert-Jan Boonstra and Henk Corporaal
  IEEE Access, Volume 10, pages 22819-22843, March 2022, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3150861
• Apertif, Phased Array Feeds for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
  W.A. van Cappellen et al.
  Astronomy and Astrophysics, 658(A146), pages 1-29, February 2022, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141739
• Radio Astronomy with the GPU Correlator, the GPU Imager and the FPGA Imager
  John W. Romein and Bram Veenboer
  In: Porting Applications to a Modular Supercomputer, A. Kreuzer, E. Suarez, N. Eicker, Th. Lippert (Eds.), IAS Series, Volume 48, pp. 81-108, January 2022
• Fourier-Domain Dedispersion
  C.G. Bassa, J.W. Romein,, B. Veenboer, S. van der Vlugt, and S.J. Wijnholds
  Astronomy and Astrophysics, 657(A46), pages 1-7, January 2022, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142099
• The Tensor-Core Correlator
  John W. Romein
  Astronomy and Astrophysics, 656(A52), pages 1-4, December 2021, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141896
• Radio-Astronomical Imaging on Graphics Processors
  Bram Veenboer and John W. Romein
  Astronomy and Computing, Volume 32, July, 2020
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• Radio-Astronomical Imaging with WSClean and Image-Domain Gridding
  Veenboer B., Van der Tol S., Offringa A. R., Romein J. W., and Dijkema T. J.
  URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS'20), Rome, Italy, August 2021
  
• Radio-Astronomical Imaging: FPGAs vs GPUs
  Bram Veenboer and John W. Romein
  Euro-Par'19 (Best Paper Award), Göttingen, Germany, August 2019
  This is a preprint of the conference paper.
  
• PowerSensor 2: a Fast Power Measurement Tool
  John W. Romein and Bram Veenboer
  IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS'18), pp. 111-113, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, April 2018
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• 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
  Pre-print available on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04834.
  
• Image-Domain Gridding on Graphics Processors
  Bram Veenboer, Matthias Petschow, and John W. Romein
  IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'17), pp. 445-454, Orlando, FL, May 2017
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• The AARTFAAC All-Sky Monitor: System Design and Implementation
  Peeyush Prasad, Folkert Huizinga, Eric Kooistra, Daniel van der Schuur, Andre Gunst, John Romein, Mark Kuiack, Gijs Molenaar, Antonia Rowlinson, John D. Swinbank, Ralph A.M.J Wijers
  Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, Volume 5, Number 4, December 2016
  
• A Comparison of Accelerator Architectures for Radio-Astronomical Signal-Processing Algorithms
  John W. Romein
  International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'16), pp. 484-489, Philadelphia, PA, August 2016
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• A Medium-Scale Distributed System for Computer Science Research: Infrastructure for the Long Term
  Henri Bal, Dick Epema, Cees de Laat, Rob van Nieuwpoort, John Romein, Frank Seinstra, Cees Snoek, and Harry Wijshoff
  IEEE Computer, 49(5):54-63, May 2016
• LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray
  M.P. van Haarlem et al.
  Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 556, Article A2, August 2013
• An Efficient Work-Distribution Strategy for Gridding Radio-Telescope Data on GPUs
  John W. Romein
  ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'12), pp. 321-330, Venice, Italy, June 2012
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• The LOFAR Beam Former: Implementation and Performance Analysis
  Jan David Mol and John W. Romein
  EuroPar'11, Bordeaux, France, LNCS 6853, part II, pp. 328-339, August 2011
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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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• Observing pulsars and fast transients with LOFAR
  B.W. Stappers, J.W.T. Hessels, A. Alexov, K. Anderson, T. Coenen, T. Hassall, A. Karastergiou, V.I. Kondratiev, M. Kramer, J. van Leeuwen, J.D. Mol, A. Noutsos, J.W. Romein, P. Weltevrede et. al.
  Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 530, June 2011, DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/201116681, arXiv:1104.1577v1
  
Correlating Radio Astronomy Signals with Many-Core Hardware
Rob V. van Nieuwpoort and John W. Romein
International Journal of Parallel Programming, Volume 39, Number 1, pp. 88-114, February 2011, DOI: 10.1007/s10766-010-0144-3
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• Building Correlators with Many-Core Hardware
  Rob V. van Nieuwpoort and John W. Romein
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (special issue on "Signal Processing on Platforms with Multiple Cores: Part 2 -- Design and Applications"), Volume 27, Number 2, pp. 108-117, March 2010
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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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• FCNP: Fast I/O on the Blue Gene/P
  John W. Romein
  Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'09), Las Vegas, NV, Volume 1, pp. 225-231, July 2009
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• Using Many-Core Hardware to Correlate Radio Astronomy Signals
  Rob V. van Nieuwpoort and John W. Romein
  ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'09), New York, NY, pp. 440-449, June 2009 (one of the six best papers)
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• Experiences with Fine-grained Distributed Supercomputing on a 10G Testbed
  Kees Verstoep, Jason Maassen, Henri E. Bal, and John W. Romein
  8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'08), Lyon, France, May 2008
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• ZOID: I/O-Forwarding Infrastructure for Petascale Architectures
  Kamil Iskra, John W. Romein, Kazutomo Yoshii, and Pete Beckman
  ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'08), Salt Lake City, UT, pp. 153-162, February 2008
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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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Keynotes

• Processing Real-Time LOFAR Telescope Data on a Blue Gene/P Supercomputer
  ScicomP 15/SP-XXL, Barcelona, Spain, May 2009
  

Technical Reports

• Signal-Processing Technologies Assessment
  Andre Gunst, P. Chris Broekema, John W. Romein
  ASTRON, January 2009
  
• Bandpass Correction in LOFAR
  John W. Romein
  ASTRON, August 2008
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Papers & thesis written at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam