A GPU-based architecture for real-time data assessment at synchrotron experiments

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 4 PART 1, 2011, Pages 1447-1455

  Chilingaryan, Suren ^a   Mirone, Alessandro ^b   Hammersley, Andrew ^b   Ferrero, Claudio ^b   Helfen, Lukas ^a   Kopmann, Andreas ^a   Dos Santos Rolo, Tomy ^a   Vagovic, Patrik ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; GPU computing; high performance computing; image reconstruction; parallel programming; performance evaluation; software; synchrotrons

Indexed keywords

BEAM-LINES; CO-PROCESSORS; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA RATES; DATA SETS; DIGITAL DETECTOR; GPU COMPUTING; GRAPHIC CARDS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; IMAGING EXPERIMENTS; MICRO-TOMOGRAPHY; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PHOTON FLUX; PIPELINED ARCHITECTURE; REAL TIME VISUALIZATION; REAL-TIME DATA; RECONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE; SYNCHROTRON SOURCE; SYSTEM RESOURCES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DETECTORS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SMART CARDS; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION;

SYNCHROTRONS;

EID: 84860389228     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2141686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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