CyberEther Remote – Take Two
CyberEther Remote streams your signal processing interface as a low-latency video, letting you run heavy workloads on headless servers and view them from any browser.
Hey, I’m Luigi.
I program GPUs to hunt aliens at the Allen Telescope Array. Building real-time pipelines for signal visualization and data processing for fun. Creator of CyberEther, Stelline, PiSDR, and BLADE.
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Blog
Trying To Run DOOM With The Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver
Experiments running DOOM on the Raspberry Pi 4's V3DV Vulkan driver, contributing patches for missing pixel formats and texture compression to upstream Mesa.
Monitoring GNSS Constellations with Galmon Using the LimeNET Micro Ublox-M8 Module
Setting up a GNSS multi-constellation monitor using the LimeNET Micro's built-in Ublox module to feed satellite health data to the Galmon crowdsourced network.
Software Defined Doppler Radar with LimeSDR Mini
Building a low-cost Doppler radar using a LimeSDR Mini and GNU Radio to measure vehicle speeds, with tests validated against real-world measurements.
Reverse Engineering GOES-16 CDA Telemetry
Reverse engineering the GOES-16 telemetry signal using GNU Radio and Open Satellite Project software to demodulate and decode CCSDS frames.
Outernet Receiver with a Wifi Grid Antenna
Receiving Outernet's L-Band satellite signal using a repurposed Wi-Fi grid antenna and RTL-SDR, with demodulation via LeanDVB on a Raspberry Pi.
Receiving & Demodulating the Meteor Satellite
Receiving and decoding digital LRPT imagery from Russia's Meteor-M N2 weather satellite using an RTL-SDR and a QFH antenna.
Projects
cyberether.org
CyberEther
High-performance GPU-accelerated signal processing and visualization framework that runs anywhere in real-time.
stelline.space
Stelline
Modular toolbox for real-time astronomy pipelines on GPUs, NVMe, and RDMA fabrics.
github.com
BLADE
GPU-accelerated beamforming and signal processing framework for the Allen Telescope Array.
Gallery
Talks
FastML 2025 - Next Generation GPU Signal Processing Pipeline for Radio Astronomy
Zurich, Switzerland – Overview of the Allen Telescope Array's next-generation signal processing pipeline, built on NVIDIA Holoscan SDK and NEXUS orchestration for real-time processing.
NVIDIA GTC 2025 – The Instrumental Edge: Enabling Real-Time AI Scientific Discovery
San Jose, CA – Discussion of the SETI Institute's use of NVIDIA Holoscan for real-time AI-powered technosignature detection of Fast Radio Bursts at the edge.
IAC 2024 – BLADE: Allen Telescope Array GPU Accelerated Real-Time Beamformer
Milan, Italy – Presented at the 75th International Astronautical Congress, this paper describes BLADE's architecture and how it processes ~1 Tbps of data in real-time for the Allen Telescope Array.
Media
SETI Institute – Accelerating the Search for Life Beyond Earth with NVIDIA IGX Thor
This next-generation pipeline processes radio signals in real-time, building on earlier IGX Orin success to transform how we search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
NVIDIA Blog – SETI Institute Researchers Engage in World’s First Real-Time AI Search for Fast Radio Bursts
Using the Holoscan SDK, 28 antennas pointed at the Crab Nebula captured and analyzed nearly 100Gbps of data. This world-first demonstrates how accelerated computing can revolutionize astronomical signal detection.
NVIDIA Developer – How SETI Uses AI to Search for Intelligent Alien Life
A showcase for AI methods detecting pulsar signals 6,500 light years away. Custom neural networks running on NVIDIA hardware prove that finding cosmic needles in haystacks requires superhuman computational approaches.
