Distributed and Parallel Net Imaging

Abstract

A very complex vision system is developed to detect luminosity variations connected with the discovery of new planets in the Universe. The traditional imaging system can not manage a so large load. A private net is implemented to perform an automatic vision and decision architecture. It lets to carry out an on-line discrimination of interesting events by using two levels of triggers. This system can even manage many Tbytes of data per day. The architecture avails itself of a distributed parallel network system based on a maximum of 256 standard workstations with Microsoft Window as OS.