  The LOw FRequency ARray - LOFAR is a new radio telescope that is moving the
science of radio pulsars and transients into a new phase. Its design places
emphasis on digital hardware and flexible software instead of mechanical
solutions. LOFAR observes at radio frequencies between 10 and 240 MHz where
radio pulsars and many transients are expected to be brightest. Radio frequency
signals emitted from these objects allow us to study the intrinsic pulsar
emission and phenomena such as propagation effects through the interstellar
medium. The design of LOFAR allows independent use of its stations to conduct
observations of known bright objects, or wide field monitoring of transient
events. One such combined software/hardware solution is called the Advanced
Radio Transient Event Monitor and Identification System (ARTEMIS). It is a
backend for both targeted observations and real-time searches for millisecond
radio transients which uses Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) technology to
remove interstellar dispersion and detect millisecond radio bursts from
astronomical sources in real-time using a single LOFAR station.
