COBALT: COrrelator and BeAmformer for the Lofar Telescope

COBALT is the correlator and beamformer to operate the LOFAR radio telescope and process its measurement output.

LOFAR is operated by ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy. For more information, see http://www.astron.nl/ and http://www.lofar.org/

Introduction

• Release Notes

Setting up and running COBALT

• Compiling COBALT
  • Automatic Spack Installation
  • Manual Spack Installation
  • Compiling COBALT
  • Common Issues
• Running COBALT
  • Preparation
  • Workflow
  • Running an Observation
  • Running an multi-node Observation
  • Common Issues
• Tuning COBALT
  • MPI
• Tests

COBALT details

• General structure
  • Quick Links
  • Doxygen
  • Architecture
  • Sub-systems
  • Support & Maintenance
  • Development
  • Usage
• Software Architecture
  • InputProc
  • GPUProc
  • OutputProc
• Debugging
• Software Documentation Template
• LOFAR Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
  • Executive summary
  • Author/Owner

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.