PSRDADA python

• python library to communicate with an astrophysics pipeline
• connects as a data reader, writer, or monitor to a PSRDADA ringbuffer
• written to be fast; no memory copies
• and to be simple

It is hard to keep up with the real-time datastreams originating from a radio telescope.
The processing pipeline needs to efficiently pass data around between very different components: network, cpu, gpu, disks.
The problem is typically solved using a ringbuffer, with an often used implementation in PSRDADA.

This package provides a python interface to the PSRDADA ringbuffer, allowing you to easily test and develop code and algorithms in python. On real-time data. On the real system.