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

Volume

13

Issue

2

fYear

2011

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

63

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computing in Science & Engineering

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1521-9615

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCSE.2010.117

Filename

5567085