A transputer based parallel processing frontend data acquisition system

Author

Molen, A. Vander ; Au, R. ; Fox, R. ; Hannuschke, S.

Author_Institution

Nat. Superconducting Cyclotron Lab., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA

Volume

41

Issue

1

fYear

1994

fDate

2/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

80

Lastpage

82

Abstract

A new parallel processing frontend for data acquisition has been designed and built at NSCL. This system, using inmos T800 transputers, is designed to add the capacity of realtime data filtering to the normal operations of NSCL frontends and improve overall performance. The initial system is designed for 5 transputers linked to a SUN host system via transputer links. A prototype system with one node is currently used as the data acquisition system for the NSCL 4π detector. The multinode system has been installed and tested. Filter software is under development

Keywords

data acquisition; distributed memory systems; parallel processing; physics computing; transputer systems; NSCL 4pi detector; SUN host system; data acquisition system; inmos T800 transputers; parallel processing frontend; Costs; Data acquisition; Data communication; Detectors; Filtering; Load management; Parallel processing; Prototypes; Sun; Superconducting filters;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.281461

Filename

281461