Basden, Alastair (2015) 'Investigation of POWER8 processors for astronomical adaptive optics real-time control.', Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society., 452 (2). pp. 1694-1701.
Abstract
The forthcoming Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) all require adaptive optics systems for their successful operation. The real-time control for these systems becomes computationally challenging, in part limited by the memory bandwidths required for wavefront reconstruction. We investigate new POWER8 processor technologies applied to the problem of real-time control for adaptive optics. These processors have a large memory bandwidth, and we show that they are suitable for operation of first-light ELT instrumentation, and propose some potential real-time control system designs. A central processing unit (CPU)-based real-time control system significantly reduces complexity, improves maintainability, and leads to increased longevity for the real-time control system.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Instrumentation: adaptive optics, Instrumentation: miscellaneous, Methods: numerical. |
| Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Download PDF (492Kb) |
| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (279Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1396 |
| Publisher statement: | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2015 The Author Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
| Date accepted: | 22 June 2015 |
| Date deposited: | 09 February 2016 |
| Date of first online publication: | September 2015 |
| Date first made open access: | No date available |
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