ATLANTIS – A Hybrid FPGA/RISC Based Re-configurable System (2009)
O. Brosch, J. Hesser, C. Hinkelbein, K. Kornmesser, T. Kuberka, A. Kugel, ...
Abstract. ATLANTIS is the result of 8 years of experience with large standalone and smaller PCI based FPGA processors. Dedicated FPGA boards for computing and I/O plus a private backplane for a data...
Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics (2008)
Abat, E., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdelalim, A. A., Abdesselam, A., ...
A detailed study is presented of the expected performance of the ATLAS detector. The reconstruction of tracks, leptons, photons, missing energy and jets is investigated, together with the performance...
AUTOMATED HIGH SPEED VOLUME COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY FOR INLINE QUALITY CONTROL (2008)
Abstract: Increasing complexity of innovative products as well as growing requirements on quality and reliability call for more detailed knowledge about internal structures of manufactured components...
Integration of the Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems in ATLAS (2008)
Abolins, M, Adragna, P, Aleksandrov, E, Aleksandrov, I, Amorim, A, Anderson, K, ...
During 2006 and the first half of 2007, the installation, integration and commissioning of trigger and data acquisition (TDAQ) equipment in the ATLAS experimental area have progressed. There have...
ATLANTIS - a modular, hybrid FPGA/CPU processor for the ATLAS (2008)
Readout Systems Kugel, A. Kugel, Ch. Hinkelbein, R. Manner, M. Muller, H. Singpiel
ATLANTIS realizes a hybrid architecture comprising an industry standard PC platform plus different FPGA based modules for high-performance I/O (AIB) and computing (ACB). It is a flexible and modular...
A FPGA-based LVL-2 Supervisor using Enable++ (2007)
H. Högl, A. Kugel, J. Ludvig, R. Männer, K. H. Noffz, S. Rühl, ...
One of the most performance critical components of the ATLAS LVL-2 trigger is the central control instance of the system: the supervisor. Its primary task is the distribution of Regions-of-Interest...
Testing on a Large Scale (2006)
Burckhart-Chromek, Doris, Abolins, M, Adragna, P, Albuquerque-Portes, M, Alexandrov, L, Amorim, A, ...
The ATLAS Data Acquisition (DAQ) and High Level Trigger (HLT) software system will be comprised initially of 2000 PC nodes which take part in the control, event readout, second level trigger and...
Burckhart-Chromek, Doris, Abolins, M, Adragna, P, Alexandrov, L, Amorim, A, Armstrong, S, ...
The ATLAS Data Acquisition (DAQ) and High Level Trigger (HLT) software system will be comprised initially of 2000 PC nodes which take part in the control, event readout, second level trigger and...
Belosloudtsev, D., Bertin, P., Bock, R.K., Boucard, P., Doersing, V., Kammel, P., ...
The future Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be built at CERN, presents among other technological challenges a formidable problem of real-time data analysis. At a primary event rate of 40 MHz, a...
Zoz, R., Kugel, A., Klefenz, F., Männer, Reinhard
The Enable Machine is a systolic 2nd level trigger processor for the transition radiation detector (TRD) of ATLAS/LHC. The task of the processor is to find the best candidate for a lepton track in a...
The final design of the ATLAS Trigger/DAQ Readout-Buffer Input (ROBIN) Device (2004)
Kugel, A, Männer, R, Müller, M, Yu, M, Krause, E, Gorini, B, ...
The ATLAS readout subsystem (ROS) is the main interface between 1600 detector front-end readout links (ROL) and the high level (HLT) trigger farms. Its core device, the readout-buffer input (ROBIN),...
A Robin Prototype for a PCI-Bus based ATLAS Readout-System (2004)
Kugel, A, Gorini, B, Green, B, Joos, M, Kieft, G, Männer, R, ...
The Atlas RobIn Prototype is an FPGA and Processor based PC I device, which receives event data fragments on two HOLA SLink ports, buffers a nd delivers or deletes them on request. Thus it is one of...
The second level trigger of the ATLAS experiment at CERN's LHC (2004)
Dos Anjos, A., Abolins, M., Armstrong, S., T. Baines, J., Barisonzi, M., P. Beck, H., ...
The ATLAS trigger reduces the rate of interesting events to be recorded for off-line analysis in three successive levels from 40 MHz to /spl sim/100 kHz, /spl sim/2 kHz and /spl sim/200 Hz. The high...
The second level trigger of the ATLAS experiment at CERN's LHC (2004)
Dos Anjos, A., Abolins, M., Armstrong, S., T. Baines, J., Barisonzi, M., P. Beck, H., ...
The ATLAS trigger reduces the rate of interesting events to be recorded for off-line analysis in three successive levels from 40 MHz to /spl sim/100 kHz, /spl sim/2 kHz and /spl sim/200 Hz. The high...
The second level trigger of the ATLAS experiment at CERN's LHC (2004)
Dos Anjos, A., Abolins, M., Armstrong, S., T. Baines, J., Barisonzi, M., P. Beck, H., ...
The ATLAS trigger reduces the rate of interesting events to be recorded for off-line analysis in three successive levels from 40 MHz to /spl sim/100 kHz, /spl sim/2 kHz and /spl sim/200 Hz. The high...
The baseline dataflow system of the ATLAS trigger and DAQ (2003)
Vermeulen, J C, Abolins, M, Dos Anjos, A, Barisonzi, M, Beck, H P, Beretta, M, ...
In this paper the baseline design of the ATLAS High Level Trigger and Data Acquisition system with respect to the DataFlow aspects, as presented in the recently submitted ATLAS Trigger/DAQ/Controls...
ATLAS Trigger/DAQ RobIn Prototype (2003)
Green, B, Kieft, G, Kugel, A, Müller, M, Yu, M
The ATLAS Trigger/DAQ (TDAQ) system connects via 1600 Read-Out-Links (ROL) to the ATLAS sub-detectors. Each Read-Out-Buffer (RobIn) prototype attaches to 2 ROLs, buffers the incoming event data...
Collisional Stellar Dynamics, Gas Dynamics and Special Purpose Computing (2002)
Spurzem, R., Makino, J., Fukushige, T., Lienhart, G., Kugel, A., Maenner, R., ...
Challenging stellar dynamical problems, such as the study of gravothermal oscillations in star clusters, have in the past initiated the very successful building of GRAPE special purpose computers. It...
The ATLAS level-2 trigger pilot project (2001)
Blair, R, Dawson, J, Haberichter, W, Schlereth, J, Bock, R, Bogaerts, A, ...
AHA-GRAPE: Adaptive Hydrodynamic Architecture - GRAvity PipE (1999)
Kuberka, T., Kugel, A., Maenner, R., Singpiel, H., Spurzem, R., Klessen, R.
In astrophysics numerical star cluster simulations and hydrodynamical methods like SPH require computational performance in the petaflop range. The GRAPE family of ASIC-based accelerators improves...
Towards the million body problem on the computer - no news since the three-body problem? (1999)
Astrophysical Challenges which demand the solution of the one million (or more) gravitating body problem are briefly discussed for the fields of cosmology, galactic nuclei and globular star clusters....
50 kHz Pattern Recognition on the Large FPGA Processor Enable++ (1998)
A. Kugel, K. Kornmesser, R. Lay, J. Ludvig, R. Männer, ...
FPGA processors are very well suited for the implementation of image processing and pattern recognition tasks. This paper describes a particularly demanding application of this type and Enable++, the...
Options for the ATLAS level 2 trigger (1997)
Blair, R, Dawson, J, Schlereth, J, Bock, R, Dobinson, R, Francis, D, ...
ATLAS calorimeter performance (1996)
ATLAS Collaboration, Airapetian, A, Grabsky, V, Hakopian, H, Vartapetian, A, Fares, F, ...
ATLAS computing technical proposal (1996)
ATLAS Collaboration, Airapetian, A, Grabsky, V, Hakopian, H, Vartapetian, A, Fares, F, ...
ATLAS computing technical proposal (1996)
Airapetian, A., Grabsky, V., Hakopian, H., Vartapetian, A., Fares, F., Moorhead, G.F., ...
ATLAS calorimeter performance (1996)
Airapetian, A., Grabsky, V., Hakopian, H., Vartapetian, A., Fares, F., Moorhead, G.F., ...
ATLAS computing technical proposal (1996)
Airapetian, A., Grabsky, V., Hakopian, H., Vartapetian, A., Fares, F., Moorhead, G.F., ...
ATLAS calorimeter performance (1996)
Airapetian, A., Grabsky, V., Hakopian, H., Vartapetian, A., Fares, F., Moorhead, G.F., ...
Enable++: A second generation FPGA processor (1995)
H. Hogl, A. Kugel, J. Ludvig, R. Manner, K. H. Noffz, R. Zoz, ...
In the computing community field programmable processors are going to fill the niche for special purpose computing devices. A typical example is ultra-fast pattern recognition in experimental...
Status report: Embedded architectures for second level triggering (EAST) (1994)
Vermeulen, J, Constantin, F, Gheorghe, A, Denes, E, Odor, G, Bock, R K, ...