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AAS 2023 – BLADE Allen Telescope Array GPU Accelerated Beamformer Backend

Seattle, WA – Presentation on BLADE, the GPU-accelerated beamformer for the Allen Telescope Array that combines signals from 42 antennas in real-time for technosignature searches.

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