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Parallel implementation of w-projection wide-field imaging.

Baoqiang Lao¹, Tao An¹, Ang Yu²

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Summary

Accelerating radio astronomy imaging with w-projection involves parallel processing. Hybrid Message Passing Interface (MPI) with Open Multi-Processing (OpenMP) and Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) significantly reduce processing time for Square Kilometre Array (SKA) data.

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Area of Science:

Radio astronomy
Computational astrophysics
High-performance computing

Background:

Wide-field imaging techniques like w-projection are crucial for radio synthesis arrays.
Future Square Kilometre Array (SKA) data processing demands faster computational methods.
Data loading and gridding are identified as key bottlenecks in w-projection.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate and evaluate parallel processing methods for accelerating w-projection.
To compare the performance of hybrid Message Passing Interface (MPI) with Open Multi-Processing (OpenMP) on CPUs and MPI with Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) on GPUs.
To provide guidance for developing efficient Square Kilometre Array (SKA) imaging pipelines.

Main Methods:

Implementation of hybrid MPI+OpenMP for CPU-based parallel processing.
Implementation of hybrid MPI+CUDA for GPU-based parallel processing.
Experimental validation across various computational environments to confirm robustness.

Main Results:

Both MPI+OpenMP and MPI+CUDA methods significantly reduce total runtime compared to single-thread processing.
MPI+CUDA demonstrates superior performance over MPI+OpenMP on multi-node systems, especially with a large number of nodes.
Single-precision GPU processing is faster than double-precision; CPU processing shows consistent performance regardless of precision.
Gridding time increases significantly with convolution kernel support size > 8 and image size > 2,048 pixels.

Conclusions:

Parallel processing strategies using MPI with OpenMP and CUDA are effective for accelerating w-projection.
GPU-accelerated methods (MPI+CUDA) offer significant speedups for large-scale radio astronomy data processing.
Understanding computational bottlenecks, like gridding, is essential for optimizing future SKA imaging pipelines.