The Application of RDMA over Converged Ethernet Data Transport for Radio-Astronomy Systems

The need to receive and process higher data rates in computer clusters is an ever-increasing trend. This also applies to radio-astronomic systems, which have become more distributed over the past decades, increasing data traffic between antennas and processing facilities. At the antenna, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) digitise the radio...

Solving convex optimization problems on FPGA using OpenCL

The application of accelerators in HPC applications has seen enormous growth in the last decade. In the field of HPC demands on throughput are steadily growing. <br/>Not all of the algorithms used have a clear HW architecture which performs the best. Our work explores the performance of different HW architectures in solving a convex optimization...

Performance Improvement of Optical Algorithms on Multicore Platforms

ASML is one of the world's largest suppliers of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry. ASML designs and develops machines that are used to print circuits on silicon wafers, to produce IC chips. These circuits have to be printed with accuracy of up to 2nm. For this purpose, the machines incorporate several measurement systems. The...

IWEX: Mapping on current high performance architectures

IWEX stands for Invers Wavefield Extrapolation and is commonly used in seismic exploration. Niels Pörtzgen[15] showed that this technique can also be used for inspection of welds. This thesis describes two domains in which the IWEX algorithm can be calculated. The time domain which has a quantization problem and the frequency domain which is...