Allen Telescope Array uses NVIDIA agents to scan SETI data in flight
Original title: Things That Go Beep in the Night: Agentic AI Joins the Search for Extraterrestrial Signals
DAQIRI streams terabits per second into GPU memory, and the pipeline has already detected a Crab Nebula pulsar in real time.
Breakthrough Listen and the SETI Institute are using agentic software at the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California. From one natural-language request, agents can steer the instrument, correct data, and apply models. NVIDIA Holoscan and DAQIRI move sensor streams into GPU memory, while CyberEther and Nexus handle signal processing and observatory control on RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs. The team is evaluating Nemotron for on-premises and possible offline use.
- The system is described as handling 2.4 terabits per second.
- Inference runs on premises next to the telescope.
- Nexus exposes instrument state, pipelines, and live spectrograms to agents.
- Open models including Nemotron are under evaluation, not a new release.
- Vendors
- NVIDIA
- Products
- HoloscanRTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- Organizations
- SETI InstituteBreakthrough Listen
- AI models
- Nemotron
From the original article
2 min read at blogs.nvidia.com
While science fiction lore tells us that humans will meet extraterrestrial life in the form of little green men, the detail that should raise hairs this Halloween is this: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence took a major leap forward with AI, and it increasingly focuses on AI agents built by humans listening for AI agents […]
By Chris Porter · blogs.nvidia.com
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