High-energy physics on DECPeRLe-1 programmable active memory

  • Authors:
  • Laurent Moll;Jean Vuillemin;Philippe Boucard

  • Affiliations:
  • Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France;Pôle Universitaire Léonard-de-Vinci, La Défense, France;Matra-Harris Semiconductors, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France

  • Venue:
  • FPGA '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM third international symposium on Field-programmable gate arrays
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

The future Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to be built at CERN, by the turn of the millenium, provides an ample source of challenging real-time computational problems. We report here some results from a collaboration between CERN EAST (RD-11) group and DEC-PRL PAM team. We present the implementations of the three foremost LHC algorithms on DECPeRLe-1 [2]. Our machine is the only one which presently meets the requirements from CERN (100 kHz event rate), except for another dedicated FPGA-based board built for just one of the algorithm. All other implementations based on single and multiprocessor general purpose computing systems fall short either of computing power, or of I/O resources or both.