SCI based data acquisition architectures

Conference · Wed Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1992 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:7206694

Bogaerts, J A.C.; Divia, R ^[1]; Renardy, J F ^[2]

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1. CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (CH)
2. CEN-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex (FR)

This paper discusses the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI), an IEEE proposed standard (P1596) for interconnecting multiprocessor systems. The standard defines point to point connections between nodes, which can be processors, memories or I/O devices. Networks containing a maximum of 64K nodes with a bandwidth of one Gbyte/s between nodes, may be constructed. SCI is an attractive candidate to serve as a backbone for high speed, large volume data acquisition systems such as required by future experiments at the proposed Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Work has started to simulate SCI based architectures for data acquisition systems. The simulation program proved to be a useful tool to study SCI systems. First results are reported on a model of a large LHC experiment containing over 1000 nodes.

• OSTI ID: 7206694
• Report Number(s): CONF-9106122--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States) Journal Volume: 39:2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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