The RTES project: BTeV, and beyond

  • Authors:
  • Michael J. Haney;Shikha Ahuja;Ted Bapty;Harry Cheung;Zbigniew Kalbarczyk;Akhilesh Khanna;Jim Kowalkowski;Derek Messie;Daniel Mossé;Sandeep Neema;Steve Nordstrom;Jae Oh;Paul Sheldon;Shweta Shetty;Dmitri Volper;Long Wang;Di Yao

  • Affiliations:
  • High Energy Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN;Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN;Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL;Electrical and Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;Electrical and Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL;Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY;Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA;Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN;Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN;Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY;Physics and Astronomy Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN;Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN;Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY;Electrical and Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

  • Venue:
  • RTC'05 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE-NPSS conference on Real time
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The Real Time Embedded Systems (RTES) project was created to study the design and implementation of high-performance, heterogeneous, and fault-adaptive real time embedded systems. The driving application for this research was the proposed BTeV high energy physics experiment, which called for large farms of embedded computational elements (DSPs), as well as a large farm of conventional high-performance processors to implement its Level 1 and Level 2/3 triggers. At the time of BTeV's termination early in 2005, the RTES project was within days of completing a prototype implementation for providing a reliable and fault-adaptive infrastructure to the L2/3 farm; a prototype for the L1 farm had been completed in 2003. This paper documents the conclusion of the RTES focus on BTeV, and provides an evaluation of the applicability of the RTES concepts to other systems.