Breakthrough Listen and the SETI Institute integrated NVIDIA Holoscan at the Allen Telescope Array. Agents now steer the instrument and process data in real time. The system handles 2.4 terabits per second on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs. DAQIRI pulls data straight into GPU memory for in-flight processing. CyberEther performs signal math using NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries. Nexus lets agents monitor and control the telescope via natural language prompts. The pipeline achieved the first real-time AI detection of a pulsar in the Crab Nebula. The team is evaluating NVIDIA Nemotron for offline observatories. Agents compress weeks of human work into hours. The search now targets signals from potential extraterrestrial AI.
What changed
Radio telescope data was stored on hard drives before processing.
What it unlocks
Agents can now steer telescopes, process data in flight, and detect signals from a natural language request.
- 2.4 terabits per second
- first real-time AI detection of a pulsar
What you need to act on it
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs
- NVIDIA Holoscan platform
- Nexus observatory orchestrator
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