GPUs for fast triggering in NA62 experiment

11 Jun 2011, 09:00
30m
Mayfair (Sheraton Hotel)

Mayfair

Sheraton Hotel

Oral Presentation Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems Trigger and DAQ Systems

Speakers

Gianluca Lamanna (CERN) Sozzi Marco (Pisa INFN)

Description

We discuss an approach for using commercial graphic processors (GPUs) at the earliest trigger stages in high-energy physics experiments, and study its implementation on a real trigger system in preparation. In particular we focus on the possibility to reconstruct rings in a Cherenkov detector as building block of a selective trigger condition for rare decay search. Latency and processing rate measurements on several state-of-the-art devices are presented, and the potential issues related to processing time jitter and data transfer throughput are discussed.

Primary author

Co-author

Sozzi Marco (Pisa INFN)

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