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Fig. 10.5 Block diagram of the BL infrastructure
Table 10.1 BL computing node
Chassis
SuperStorage 6049P-E1CR24H 4U
Motherboard
Supermicro X11DPH-T
CPU
2 Intel Xeon Silver 4110 Processor LGA3647
GPU
2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
NIC
Mellanox MCX4121A-XCAT ConnectX-4
2x10G,
Memory
96 GB DDR4
Hard Disk
24 Toshiba MD04ACA600/HDETS10 6 TB
Figure 10.5 shows the block diagram representing the processing system we are
designing in cooperation with BL engineers. We are re-using part of the SARDARA
(SArdinia Roach2-based Digital Architecture for Radio Astronomy) [5] backend,
both for dedicated SETI observations or as a commensal backend during conventional
observing programs of accepted proposals. Two powerful workstations, whose main
characteristics are shown in Table 10.1, will be provided by the BL Foundation and
will be able to process up to 6 Gbit/s each for searching ET, pulsars and FRBs
simultaneously. A detailed description of the hardware and software pipeline used
for collection, reduction, archival, and public dissemination of the BL data can be
found here [6]; the data collected with the SRT will substantially be processed in
the same manner. In a general way, a more comprehensive overview of the facilities
involved in the BL program, among which the SRT, can be found here [7].
Finally, during the IAC 2019 held in Washington, the BL’s leader Pete Worden
announced
9 a new collaboration with scientists working on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which is shown in Fig. 10.6. The program envisages
a survey of the 1,000,000 closest stars to Earth, focusing more towards the center of
the Milky Way; moreover, the search is extended to the 100 closest galaxies to ours.
SRT will be part of this exciting program; around 12 TESS targets will be observed
10
across 18–26 GHz.
9 https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/27.
10 https://seti.berkeley.edu/tess/obsplan.pdf.
A. Melis et al.
Fig. 10.5 Block diagram of the BL infrastructure
Table 10.1 BL computing node
Chassis
SuperStorage 6049P-E1CR24H 4U
Motherboard
Supermicro X11DPH-T
CPU
2 Intel Xeon Silver 4110 Processor LGA3647
GPU
2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
NIC
Mellanox MCX4121A-XCAT ConnectX-4
2x10G,
Memory
96 GB DDR4
Hard Disk
24 Toshiba MD04ACA600/HDETS10 6 TB
Figure 10.5 shows the block diagram representing the processing system we are
designing in cooperation with BL engineers. We are re-using part of the SARDARA
(SArdinia Roach2-based Digital Architecture for Radio Astronomy) [5] backend,
both for dedicated SETI observations or as a commensal backend during conventional
observing programs of accepted proposals. Two powerful workstations, whose main
characteristics are shown in Table 10.1, will be provided by the BL Foundation and
will be able to process up to 6 Gbit/s each for searching ET, pulsars and FRBs
simultaneously. A detailed description of the hardware and software pipeline used
for collection, reduction, archival, and public dissemination of the BL data can be
found here [6]; the data collected with the SRT will substantially be processed in
the same manner. In a general way, a more comprehensive overview of the facilities
involved in the BL program, among which the SRT, can be found here [7].
Finally, during the IAC 2019 held in Washington, the BL’s leader Pete Worden
announced
9 a new collaboration with scientists working on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which is shown in Fig. 10.6. The program envisages
a survey of the 1,000,000 closest stars to Earth, focusing more towards the center of
the Milky Way; moreover, the search is extended to the 100 closest galaxies to ours.
SRT will be part of this exciting program; around 12 TESS targets will be observed
10
across 18–26 GHz.
9 https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/27.
10 https://seti.berkeley.edu/tess/obsplan.pdf.