I'm trying to scope the hardware required for SERENDIP-type science
piggy-backing on DSN down-link (passive, no transmitter) tracks.
As a baseline, I'm assuming one ROACH per antenna per activity.
Possible activities would be:
* searching for pulsars and transient pulses
* SETI
* kurtosis for electrostatic discharges (lightning)
For scoping the first task, is anyone working on a pulsar machine using
one or more ROACH boards? How big a cluster of CPU/GPU units is
reasonable for the real-time searching?
Has anyone looked at porting SETI to a ROACH?
Any suggestions for what else one might do with the unused bandwidth
would be welcome.
Thanks and regards
Tom
