Title :
Many-core processors and GPU opportunities in particle detectors
Author :
Neufeld, Niko ; Vilasís-Cardona, Xavier
Author_Institution :
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Abstract :
High energy physics particle detectors are large and complex devices with very demanding requirements at the level of signal to noise ratios, processing times and data throughput. The first stages of the data acquisition are hardware based while the last ones depend rather on software. Among the solutions to the problems posed by the requirements we may find the use of multi-core processors or maybe GPU´s. We shall review what are the points in which these techniques could be of use and the actual proposals.
Keywords :
data acquisition; graphics processing units; multiprocessing systems; particle detectors; GPU; complex devices; data throughput; hardware-based data acquisition; high energy physics particle detectors; many-core processors; multicore processors; processing times; signal to noise ratios; software-based data acquisition; Automata; Detectors; Graphics processing unit; Image reconstruction; Large Hadron Collider; Physics; Radiation detectors;
Conference_Titel :
Cellular Nanoscale Networks and Their Applications (CNNA), 2012 13th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Turin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0287-6
DOI :
10.1109/CNNA.2012.6331456
