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The Madawaska Highlands Observatory will a have two computers to control
the observatory and an HPC to process/analyze data. The control
computer will be responsible for all hardware interface to the
telescope, cameras, mount, dome, instrumentation, cloud monitor,
weather station, etc. In addition a second redundant control computer
will be available at all times. The dome will feature a backup
solar powered power supply in case the main power fails. The hardware
interface will be through a PLC which is microprogrammed for ultra
reliability.
The control computer will also host the high level scripting
and APC control software, which will execute the astronomers observing
run and handle scripting (queuing).
The control computer is connected via a an optical fiber to the
super-computer.
NVIDIA TESLA 2050/2070 GPGPU is capable of 620 GFLOPS DP
The GPGPU based HPC has significant resources (600 GFLOPS DP)
for special projects such has supernovae search, astrometry, wide-field
photometry NEO search and Earth-like planet search. These projects
and others require extremely high levels of computing power to
process the enormous images sizes arriving from the 112 Mpixel
camera, typically 750 Mbytes for tricolor. The GPGPU has 5 TFLOPS
and potentially Scaling to 25 TFLOPS within 3 years. The PCI-e
X16 cards will be equipped with 6GB and can be programmed in C/C++,
FORTRAN, MATLAB, OpenCL, Java, Python, Mathematica, Labview and
DirectCompute.
A 100+ Mbps wireless link will connect to the outside world having
a throughput of several 360GB/hr, thus astronomers will have real
time access to their data, ~25s to download an single color image.
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