Off-the-shelf real-time computers for next-generation adaptive optics

Stefan Hippler; Douglas P. Looze; Wolfgang Gaessler

doi:10.1117/12.550036

25 October 2004 Off-the-shelf real-time computers for next-generation adaptive optics

Stefan Hippler, Douglas P. Looze, Wolfgang Gaessler

Proceedings Volume 5490, Advancements in Adaptive Optics; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550036
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

The performance of adaptive optics systems for existing as well as future giant telescopes heavily depends on the number of active wavefront compensating elements, the spatial, and the temporal sampling of the distorted incoming wavefront. In a phase-A study for an extreme adaptive optics system for the VLT (CHEOPS) as well as for LINC-NIRVANA a fizeau interferometer aboard LBT with a multi-conjugated adaptive optics system, we investigate how today's off-the-shelf computers compare in terms of floating point computing power, memory bandwidth, input/output bandwidth and real-time behavior. We address questions like how level three cache can impact the memory bandwidth, what matrix-vector multiplication performance is achievable, and what can we learn from standard benchmarks running on different architectures.

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Stefan Hippler, Douglas P. Looze, and Wolfgang Gaessler "Off-the-shelf real-time computers for next-generation adaptive optics", Proc. SPIE 5490, Advancements in Adaptive Optics, (25 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550036

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