SPARTA

Standard Platform for Adaptive Optics Real Time Applications

SPARTA Standard Platform for Adaptive Optics Real Time Applications	Built by	ESO Adaptive Optics Group
	External Collaborations	University of Durham (England)
	Project Manager	Enrico Fedrigo (efedrigo@eso.org)
	Project Team	Christian Soenke (csoenke@eso.org) Rob Donaldson (rdonalds@eso.org)
	Status	Conceptual Design
	Actual Location	ESO Garching
	Appications using SPARTA	GALACSI (MUSE), GRAAL (HAWK-I), SPHERE

Introduction
General Concept
Hardware Architecture
Software Architecture
Project Status
Links
Downloads
Project Team

Introduction

SPARTA is a scalable hard- and software platform for Adaptive Optics (AO) Real-Time Computer (RTC) applications. The development of the system has two main objectives:

facilitate and speed up the development of AO RTC applications by standardizing hardware and providing a proven and efficient software framework
meet the requirements in computing power for the AO systems of the 2nd Generation VLT Instruments

The SPARTA project is led and developed by ESO with the collaboration of University of Durham.

At the moment it is foreseen to use SPARTA with the following applications: GALACSI (MUSE), GRAAL (HAWK-I), SPHERE

General Concept

The general concept is currently beeing updated...

Concept of the AO RTC platform

Hardware Architecture

The HW architecture is currently beeing updated...

Software Architecture

The SW architecture is currently beeing updated...

Project Status

Current status is: Conceptual Design

Links

ESO Adaptive Optics Homepage	www.eso.org/projects/aot/
OPTICON Joint Research Activity (JRA) 1	www.eso.org/projects/aot/jra1/
University of Durham - Astronomical Instrumentation Group	aig-www.dur.ac.uk/
University of Durham - RTCS Homepage	www.dur.ac.uk/rtcs.project/rtcs_group_home.html
MUSE Project Homepage MUSE AO Homepage	www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/muse/ www.eso.org/projects/aot/museao/
MAD Software Homepage (internal access only)	www.eso.org/projects/aot/rtcplatform/...

Downloads

SPIE paper on the AO RTC platform (E.Fedrigo) [download]

The SPARTA Project Team

ESO
Enrico Fedrigo	Project Manager & Real-Time Control
Christian Soenke	Real-Time Control, HW integration
Rob Donaldson	Real-Time Control

External Collaborations
Richard Myers	University of Durham
Christopher Saunter	University of Durham
Stephen Goodsell	University of Durham
Deli Geng	University of Durham
Nigel Dipper	University of Durham
Alistair Basden	University of Durham