Published March 2016 | Version v1
Journal article

NaNet-10: a 10GbE network interface card for the GPU-based low-level trigger of the NA62 RICH detector

  • 1. INFN Sezione di Roma - Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 1 - 00133 Roma (Italy)
  • 2. INFN Sezione di Roma - Sapienza, P.le Aldo Moro, 2 - 00185 Roma (Italy)
  • 3. Università degli Studi di Ferrara and INFN Sezione di Ferrara, Polo Scientifico e Tecnologico, Via Saragat 1 - 44122 Ferrara (Italy)
  • 4. INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Via E. Fermi,40 - 00044 Frascati (Roma) (Italy)
  • 5. INFN Sezione di Pisa, Via F. Buonarroti 2 - 56127 Pisa (Italy)
  • 6. NVIDIA Corp, 2701 San Tomas expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95050 (United States)

Description

A GPU-based low level (L0) trigger is currently integrated in the experimental setup of the RICH detector of the NA62 experiment to assess the feasibility of building more refined physics-related trigger primitives and thus improve the trigger discriminating power. To ensure the real-time operation of the system, a dedicated data transport mechanism has been implemented: an FPGA-based Network Interface Card (NaNet-10) receives data from detectors and forwards them with low, predictable latency to the memory of the GPU performing the trigger algorithms. Results of the ring-shaped hit patterns reconstruction will be reported and discussed

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/11/03/C03030

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Instrumentation
Journal Volume
11
Journal Issue
03
Journal Page Range
p. C03030
ISSN
1748-0221

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
47073406
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
ALGORITHMS; INTERFACES; RADIATION DETECTORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RINGS; TRIGGER CIRCUITS
Descriptors DEC
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PULSE CIRCUITS