SCI based data acquisition architectures

Author

Bogaerts, J.A.C. ; Divia, R. ; Muller, H. ; Renardy, J.F.

Author_Institution

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Volume

39

Issue

2

fYear

1992

fDate

4/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

94

Abstract

The scalable coherent interface (SCI) is an IEEE proposed standard (P1596) for interconnecting multiprocessor systems. The standard defines point-to-point connections between nodes, which can be processors, memories, or I/O devices. Networks containing a maximum of 64 K nodes with a bandwidth of 1 Gbyte/s between nodes can be constructed. SCI is an attractive candidate to serve as a backbone for high-speed, large-volume data acquisition systems such as those required by future experiments at the proposed Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. First results for a model of a large LHC experiment containing over 1000 nodes are reported

Keywords

data acquisition; nuclear electronics; physics computing; CERN; I/O devices; IEEE proposed standard; LHC; Large Hadron Collider; P1596; SCI based data acquisition architectures; bandwidth; large-volume data acquisition systems; memories; multiprocessor systems; point-to-point connections; scalable coherent interface; Bandwidth; Bridges; Channel allocation; Communication cables; Cyclic redundancy check; Data acquisition; Large Hadron Collider; Multiprocessing systems; Optical fibers; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.277466

Filename

277466