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A GPU High Level Trigger 1 for the upgraded LHCb detector

Jan 11, 2022, 2:20 PM
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Speaker

Christina Agapopoulou (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

Description

In 2022 the upgraded LHCb experiment will use a triggerless readout system collecting data at an event rate of 30 MHz. A software-only High Level Trigger will enable unprecedented flexibility for trigger selections. During the first stage (HLT1), a sub-set of the full offline track reconstruction for charged particles is run to select particles of interest. After this first stage, the event rate is reduced by at least a factor 30. Track reconstruction at 30 MHz represents a significant computing challenge, requiring a renovation of current algorithms and the underlying hardware. In this talk, we present the approach of executing the full HLT1 chain on GPUs. This includes decoding the raw data, clustering of hits, pattern recognition, as well as track fitting. We discuss the design of HLT1 algorithms optimized for many-core architectures. Both the computing and physics performance of the full HLT1 chain will be presented.

Author

Sebastian Neubert (University of Bonn (DE))

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