Pirate - Perimeter Institute RAdio Transient Engine

An experimental GPU-based fast transient search for CHORD.

User Guide

• Installation
• Introduction
• To do list
  • Immediate concrete tasks
  • Goals by end of May
  • Goals for a pathfinder search
• Developer notes
  • Some fun CLI examples
  • ksgpu helper library
  • Chunks, batches, frames, and segments
  • Allocators
  • Networking
  • File writing
  • Software engineering philosophy
• CLI reference
  • Subcommands
  • Detailed usage
• Build system
  • Autogenerated kernels
  • gRPC
  • File Structure
• Hardware
  • Nodes
  • Full CHORD network (future)
  • DRAO backend
• X->FRB network protocol (v2)
• X->FRB metadata (v1)
• gRPC Protocol Definitions

Appendix: Context Files for LLMs

• C++ guidelines
  • ksgpu
  • xassert macros
• GPU kernels
  • Register assignment notation
  • Local transpose
  • Warp transpose
  • Pointer offsets
  • Performance guidelines
• Pybind11
  • Method injections
  • Source file organization
  • General notes
  • Specific argument types
• Thread-Backed Class Pattern
  • Example Code