ALICE HLT high speed tracking on GPU

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 4 PART 1, 2011, Pages 1845-1851

  Gorbunov, Sergey ^a   Rohr, David ^b   Aamodt, Kenneth ^c   Alt, Torsten ^a   Appelshäuser, Harald ^e   Arend, Andreas ^e   Bach, Matthias ^a   Becker, Bruce ^f   Böttger, Stefan ^b   Breitner, Timo ^b   Büsching, Henner ^e   Chattopadhyay, Sukalyan ^h   Cleymans, Jean ^g   Cicalo, Corrado ^f   Das, Indranil ^h   Djuvsland, Øystein ^d   Engel, Heikofname ^b   Erdal, Hege Austrheim ^d   Fearick, Roger ^g   Haaland, Øystein Senneset ^d   Hille, Per Thomas ^k   Kalcher, Sebastian ^a   Kanaki, Kalliopi ^d   Kebschull, Udo Wolfgang ^b   Kisel, Ivan ^l   Kretz, Matthias ^a   Lara, Camilo ^b   Lindal, Svein ^c   Lindenstruth, Volker ^a   Masoodi, Arshad Ahmad ^j   Øvrebekk, Gaute ^d   Panse, Ralf ^b   Peschek, Jörg ^b   Ploskon, Mateusz ⁱ   Pocheptsov, Timur ^c   Ram, Dinesh ^a   Rascanu, Theodor ^e   Richter, Matthias ^c   Röhrich, Dieter ^d   Ronchetti, Federico ^m   Skaali, Bernhard ^c   Smørholm, Olav ^a   Stokkevåg, Camilla ^d   Steinbeck, Timm Morten ^a   Szostak, Artur ^d   Thäder, Jochen ^l   Tveter, Trine ^c   Ullaland, Kjetil ^d   Vilakazi, Zeblon ^g   Weis, Robert ^b   Yin, Zhongbao ⁿ   Zelnicek, Pierre ^b   more..

^a FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f SEZIONE DI CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^h SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

ⁱ LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^k Yale University   (United States)

^l GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^m INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

ⁿ CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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Author keywords

Data processing; high energy physics instrumentation computing; parallel algorithms; reconstruction algorithms

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATON METHOD; COMPUTE UNIFIED DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; DMA TRANSFERS; DYNAMIC SCHEDULERS; EVENT RECONSTRUCTION; FAST PATTERN RECOGNITION; GRAPHICS CARD; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS; HIGH-LEVEL TRIGGERS; INPUT DATAS; ITS EFFICIENCIES; PROCESSOR CORES; PROTON PROTON COLLISIONS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SPEED-TRACKING; TIME REQUIREMENTS; TRACKING ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATA THEORY; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COLLIDING BEAM ACCELERATORS; DATA HANDLING; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; PROTONS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84860399478     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2157702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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