High-speed, multi-input, multi-output control using GPU processing in the HBT-EP tokamak

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1895-1899

  Rath, N ^a   Bialek, J ^a   Byrne, P J ^a   Debono, B ^a   Levesque, J P ^a   Li, B ^a   Mauel, M E ^a   Maurer, D A ^a   Navratil, G A ^a   Shiraki, D ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

GPU; High speed; MIMO; Perturbed equilibria; Plasma control; Tokamak

Indexed keywords

CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; CONTROL CYCLES; CONTROL INPUTS; CYCLE TIME; DIGITIZERS; EQUILIBRIUM STATE; GPU; GPU PROCESSING; GRAPHICAL PROCESSING UNITS; HARDWARE RESOURCES; I/O LATENCY; MAGNETIC DIAGNOSTIC; MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING; MULTI-OUTPUT; MULTIINPUT; NUMBER OF STATE; PCI EXPRESS; PEER TO PEER; PERTURBED EQUILIBRIA; PLASMA CONTROL; PLASMA CONTROL SYSTEMS; REAL-TIME EXTENSION; TIME CONSTRAINTS; TOKAMAK;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MIMO SYSTEMS; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

MAGNETOPLASMA;

EID: 84870731159     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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