Title :
A High-End Reconfigurable Computation Platform for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments
Author :
Liu, Ming ; Kühn, Wolfgang ; Lange, Sören ; Yang, Shuo ; Roskoss, Johannes ; Lu, Zhonghai ; Jantsch, Axel ; Wang, Qiang ; Xu, Hao ; Jin, Dapeng ; Liu, Zhen´An
Author_Institution :
Justus Liebig Univ., Giessen, Germany
Abstract :
A high-performance computation platform based on field-programmable gate arrays targets nuclear and particle physics experiment applications. The system can be constructed or scaled into a supercomputer-equivalent size for detector data processing by inserting compute nodes into advanced telecommunications computing architecture (ATCA) crates. Among the case study results are that one ATCA crate can provide a computation capability equivalent to hundreds of commodity PCs for Hades online particle track reconstruction and Cherenkov ring recognition.
Keywords :
Cherenkov counters; field programmable gate arrays; high energy physics instrumentation computing; nuclear physics; particle tracks; reconfigurable architectures; ATCA crates; Cherenkov ring recognition; Hades online particle track reconstruction; advanced telecommunications computing architecture crates; commodity PC; computation capability; compute nodes; detector data processing; field-programmable gate arrays; high-end reconfigurable computation platform; high-performance computation platform; nuclear physics experiments; particle physics experiments; supercomputer-equivalent size; Computational modeling; Detectors; Field programmable gate arrays; Nuclear physics; Optical switches; Pattern recognition; Program processors; FPGA implementation; Reconfigurable computing; nuclear and particle physics; pattern recognition; scientific computing;
Journal_Title :
Computing in Science & Engineering
DOI :
10.1109/MCSE.2010.117
