pirate - Perimeter Institute RAdio Transient Engine

An experimental GPU-based fast transient search, intended for use in CHORD.

Some notes/caveats:

• This repo contains real-time server code (network receive, ring buffering, file-writing RPCs) and GPU dedispersion code, but currently the real-time server does not call the GPU dedisperser! Working on this is my top priority.

• Currently, this code can only be compiled on a recent ubuntu linux machine with a physical GPU, and the cuda toolkit installed. I hope to improve this in the future!

• Uses the ksgpu helper library.

Documentation: HTML docs are at kmsmith137.github.io/pirate but may not be completely up-to-date. You can generate up-to-date docs with make docs and make docs-serve, or browse the .md files below:

• Installation
• Introduction
• Developer notes
• Build system
• Hardware
• X->FRB network protocol (v2)
• X->FRB metadata (v2)
• gRPC protocol definitions

Contact: Kendrick Smith [email protected]