Real-time high-energy physics applications on DECPeRLe-1 programmable active memory

Abstract

Abstract. The future Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to be built at CERN 1 , 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 2 (RD-11) group and DEC-PRL PAM 3 team. We present implementations of the four foremost LHC algorithms on DECPeRLe-1 [1]. Our machine is the only one which presently meets the requirements from CERN (100 kHz event rate), except for another dedicated FPGA-based machine built for just one of the algorithms [2]. 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.