SETI@GRID: exploiting computational grids to boost SETI data analysis

Paper number

IAC-06-A4.1.09

Author

Dr. Marco Cecchi, INAF - National Institute for Astrophysics, Italy

Coauthor

Dr. Jader Monari, INAF - National Institute for Astrophysics, Italy

Year

2006

Abstract

Computing grids are nowadays ever more attracting the interest of
scientific communities. What they are promising is the impressive
processing power offered by the huge amount of shared resources backing
the grid system infrastructure compared to whatever performing computing
cluster a single organization can provide.
Beside the SETI@HOME project (that by the way can be considered milestone grid computing application by itself), SETI@GRID will operate on an academical grid infrastructure (not being demanded on the
participation of the single volunteer) within a cross-platform environment allowing the execution of parallel jobs (MPI).
Not only grid computing will contribute to process larger amounts of astronomical data using traditional techniques (such as the FT), but it can represent the opportunity to eventually unfold the application of
advanced signal analysis algorithms, such as second order or higher, the Radon Transform or KLT.
This paper will address and evaluate several aspects about the possibility of targeting such a data intensive application as the SETI data analysis is within a distributed grid environment.
 

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