SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen Use AI Agents to Steer Telescope
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourceblogs.nvidia.com · Opens in a new tabSETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen are using agentic AI to help run the search for extraterrestrial intelligence at the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California. Agents can steer the instrument, correct incoming data, and apply AI models to the data stream from a single natural language request. The pipeline uses NVIDIA Holoscan, the DAQIRI library, the CyberEther signal-processing framework, and Nexus as an agent harness. The system handles 2.4 terabits per second on RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, and has achieved a first real-time AI detection of a pulsar in the Crab Nebula.
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SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen are using agentic AI to help run the search for extraterrestrial intelligence at the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California. Agents can steer the instrument, correct incoming data, and apply AI models to the data stream from a single natural language request. The pipeline uses NVIDIA Holoscan, the DAQIRI library, the CyberEther signal-processing framework, and Nexus as an agent harness. The system handles 2.4 terabits per second on RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, and has achieved a first real-time AI detection of a pulsar in the Crab Nebula.
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- Agents can steer the Allen Telescope Array and apply AI models to incoming data from one natural language request.
- DAQIRI pulls terabits per second of sensor data into GPU memory so observations are processed in flight.
- The system handles 2.4 terabits per second on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs with on-premises inference.
- The pipeline achieved the first real-time AI detection of a pulsar in the Crab Nebula.
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NVIDIA says agents at the Allen Telescope Array can now steer the instrument, correct incoming data and run AI models on the stream from one natural-language request, with the pipeline handling 2.4 Tb/s and making a first real-time AI pulsar detection. NVIDIA blog dated Oct 30.
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Radio telescopes produce data volumes too large to review manually in real time. Agentic control of instruments could make the search for signals faster and more adaptable, though the source is a vendor-affiliated promotional article.
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