AMBER: A real-time pipeline for the detection of single pulse astronomical transients
Author(s) -
Alessio Sclocco,
Stijn Heldens,
Ben van Werkhoven
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
softwarex
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.528
H-Index - 21
ISSN - 2352-7110
DOI - 10.1016/j.softx.2020.100549
Subject(s) - pipeline (software) , computer science , software , pulsar , pulse (music) , real time computing , variety (cybernetics) , computer hardware , astronomy , physics , operating system , artificial intelligence , detector , telecommunications
Detecting single-pulse astronomical transients, such as pulsars or fast radio bursts, requires collecting and processing enormous amounts of data. AMBER is a software processing pipeline that makes it possible to detect these single-pulse phenomena in real-time. The software achieves this by offloading compute-intensive kernels to many-core accelerators. Additionally, AMBER automatically tunes these kernels to achieve high performance on a variety of different platforms. We therefore see AMBER as an important tool in the search for new and interesting astronomical transients.
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