Benchmarking hardware architecture candidates for the NFIRAOS real-time controller

Malcolm Smith; Dan Kerley; Glen Herriot; Jean-Pierre Véran

doi:10.1117/12.2057345

21 July 2014 Benchmarking hardware architecture candidates for the NFIRAOS real-time controller

Malcolm Smith, Dan Kerley, Glen Herriot, Jean-Pierre Véran

Proceedings Volume 9148, Adaptive Optics Systems IV; 91484K (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057345
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

As a part of the trade study for the Narrow Field Infrared Adaptive Optics System, the adaptive optics system for the Thirty Meter Telescope, we investigated the feasibility of performing real-time control computation using a Linux operating system and Intel Xeon E5 CPUs. We also investigated a Xeon Phi based architecture which allows higher levels of parallelism. This paper summarizes both the CPU based real-time controller architecture and the Xeon Phi based RTC. The Intel Xeon E5 CPU solution meets the requirements and performs the computation for one AO cycle in an average of 767 microseconds. The Xeon Phi solution did not meet the 1200 microsecond time requirement and also suffered from unpredictable execution times. More detailed benchmark results are reported for both architectures.

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Malcolm Smith, Dan Kerley, Glen Herriot, and Jean-Pierre Véran "Benchmarking hardware architecture candidates for the NFIRAOS real-time controller", Proc. SPIE 9148, Adaptive Optics Systems IV, 91484K (21 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057345

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