.. _pipeline_intro:

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Introduction
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BPP internally wraps `LOFAR's own pre-processing pipeline DP3 <https://dp3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_, as it is an established code base
expected to provide most of the functionality required for SKA Low.

BPP's key additions are:

- Multi-node scaling: use multiple nodes using the Dask library, splitting the work in time and/or frequency (see :ref:`dask_scaling`).
- Friendlier configuration system: apply the same pipeline steps easily to multiple datasets (see :ref:`configuration`).