Accelerating a Signal Processing Algorithm with TornadoVM: The Implementation Introduction In the first post of this series, we have introduced one algorithm, Period Search, that is central to the processing of photometric data acquired by the Gaia mission when studying variable stellar objects.The reader not familiar with those astronomical concepts should start by reading the introduction article before the present one. In that post, we will report on...

Accelerating a Signal Processing Algorithm with TornadoVM: The Scenario Gaia is a mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) whose goal is to create a precise survey of our galaxy by surveying more than 1.8 billion objects. The Gaia spacecraft was launched in 2013 and orbits around the Sun at the Lagrange 2 point, 1.5 million kilometers from our planet. It embarks instruments that measure the position, distances,...

This blog is cross-posted from foojay.io. TornadoVM is an open-source Java technology that is developed to aid Java programmers in adapting their code bases for hardware acceleration. This blog aims to explain how Java programmers can build TornadoVM with IntelliJ IDEA, and how they can run TornadoVM unit-tests or other Java programs. Prerequisites This blog uses IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2.4 version and the list of required plugins are as follows: Additionally,...