Introduction

BPP internally wraps LOFAR’s own pre-processing pipeline DP3, 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 Dask Scaling).

• Friendlier configuration system: apply the same pipeline steps easily to multiple datasets (see Configuration Guide).