A new technique for on-line and off-line high speed computation

Author

Hartouni, E.P. ; Jensen, D.A. ; Klima, B. ; Kreisler, M.N. ; Rabin, M.S.Z. ; Uribe, J. ; Church, M. ; Gara, A. ; Gottschalk, E. ; Hylton, R. ; Knapp, B.C. ; Sippach, F.W. ; Stern, Ben ; Wiencke, L. ; Christian, D. ; Gutierrez, G. ; Holmes, S.D. ; Strait,

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. and Astron., Massachussetts Univ., Amherst, MA, USA

Volume

36

Issue

5

fYear

1989

fDate

10/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1480

Lastpage

1484

Abstract

A novel technique for both online and offline computation is presented. With this technique, a reconstruction analysis in elementary particle physics, otherwise prohibitively long, has been accomplished. It will be used online in an upcoming Fermilab experiment to reconstruct more than 100000 events per second and to trigger on the basis of that information. The technique delivers 40 gigaoperations per second, has a bandwidth on the order of gigabytes per second, and has a modest cost. An overview of the program, details of the system, and performance measurements are presented

Keywords

data acquisition; nuclear electronics; physics computing; real-time systems; Fermilab experiment; elementary particle physics; offline computation; reconstruction analysis; Astronomy; Bandwidth; Data acquisition; Detectors; Elementary particles; Event detection; Laboratories; Magnetic analysis; Measurement; Physics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.41087

Filename

41087