Upcoming Events

• CfAI Seminar Programme
• Wednesday 14th April 2018 1pm PH132 (Sir James Knott Room)
• David Jenkins: MCAO RTC on the Xeon Phis
• Abstract:With the next-generation of Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), the demands of adaptive optics real-time control (AO RTC) increase massively compared to the most complex AO systems in use today. The Intel Xeon Phi range of x86 CPUs, incorporating ≥64 general purpose x86 CPU cores into a single CPU package is ideally suited for acceleration of the reconstruction task of ELT scale AO RTC. We present a proof of concept AO RTC system, in collaboration with the EU funded Green Flash project, for ELT scale MCAO using an optimised RTC on Xeon Phi hardware to achieve the required performance.

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