A GPU offloading mechanism for LHCb

The current computational infrastructure at LHCb is designed for sequential execution. It is possible to make use of modern multi-core machines by using multi-threaded algorithms and running multiple instances in parallel, but there is no way to make efficient use of specialized massively parallel h...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 513; no. 5; pp. 1 - 5
Main Authors: Badalov, Alexey, Campora Perez, Daniel Hugo, Zvyagin, Alexander, Neufeld, Niko, Cardona, Xavier Vilasis
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.01.2014
Subjects:
Algorithms
Computation
Graphics processing units
Hardware
Infrastructure
Physics
Running
Servers
ISSN:1742-6588, 1742-6596
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Summary:The current computational infrastructure at LHCb is designed for sequential execution. It is possible to make use of modern multi-core machines by using multi-threaded algorithms and running multiple instances in parallel, but there is no way to make efficient use of specialized massively parallel hardware, such as graphical processing units and Intel Xeon/Phi. We extend the current infrastructure with an out-of-process computational server able to gather data from multiple instances and process them in large batches.
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ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/513/5/052004