Commodity multi-processor systems in the ATLAS level-2 trigger

Low cost SMP (symmetric multi-processor) systems provide substantial CPU and I/O capacity. These features together with the ease of system integration make them an attractive and cost effective solution for a number of real-time applications in event selection. In ATLAS we consider them as intellige...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Abolins, M, Blair, R, Bock, R, Bogaerts, J A C, Dawson, J, Ermoline, Y, Hauser, R, Kugel, A, Lay, R, Müller, M, Noffz, K H, Pope, B, Schlereth, J L, Werner, P
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2000
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Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/560388
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Sumario:Low cost SMP (symmetric multi-processor) systems provide substantial CPU and I/O capacity. These features together with the ease of system integration make them an attractive and cost effective solution for a number of real-time applications in event selection. In ATLAS we consider them as intelligent input buffers (an "active" ROB complex), as event flow supervisors or as powerful processing nodes. Measurements of the performance of one off-the-shelf commercial 4- processor PC with two PCI buses, equipped with commercial FPGA based data source cards (microEnable) and running commercial software are presented and mapped on such applications together with a long-term programme of work. The SMP systems may be considered as an important building block in future data acquisition systems. (9 refs).

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