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The GPU-accelerated track finding method is investigated to track electrons from neutrinoless muon decay in the COMET Phase-I experiment. Inside the cylindrical drift chamber, one third of the signal electron trajectories are composed of…
We present the current development status and progress of traccc, a GPU track reconstruction library developed in the context of the A Common Tracking Software (ACTS) project. traccc implements tracking algorithms used in high energy…
iPIC3D is a widely used massively parallel Particle-in-Cell code for the simulation of space plasmas. However, its current implementation does not support execution on multiple GPUs. In this paper, we describe the porting of iPIC3D particle…
The main b-physics trigger algorithm used by the LHCb experiment is the so-called topological trigger. The topological trigger selects vertices which are a) detached from the primary proton-proton collision and b) compatible with coming…
Interest in parallel architectures applied to real time selections is growing in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. In this paper we describe performance measurements of Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) and Intel Many Integrated Core…
The LHC trigger and data acquisition systems will need significant modifications to operate at the HL-LHC. Due to the increased occupancy of each crossing, Level-1 trigger systems would experience degraded performance of the LHC algorithms…
The LHCb detector is a forward spectrometer at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The experiment is designed for precision measurements of CP violation and rare decays of beauty and charm hadrons. In this paper the performance of the…
With the current increase in the data produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, it becomes important to process this data in a corresponding manner. To begin with, to efficiently select events that contain relevant information…
A new FPGA-based low-level trigger processor has been installed at the NA62 experiment. It is intended to extend the features of its predecessor due to a faster interconnection technology and additional logic resources available on the new…
A signature often found in non-minimal Higgs sectors is Higgs decay to a new gauge-singlet scalar, followed by decays of the singlets into Standard Model fermions through small mixing angles. The scalar decay can naturally be displaced from…
The planned high-luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will bring much higher data rates that are far above the capabilities of currently installed software-based data processing systems. Therefore, new methods must…
The Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (PCG) method is widely used for solving linear systems of equations with sparse matrices. A recent version of PCG, Pipelined PCG, eliminates the dependencies in the computations of the PCG algorithm so…
In modern High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments, triggers perform the important task of selecting, in real time, the data to be recorded and saved for physics analyses. As a result, trigger strategies play a key role in extracting relevant…
Future experiments in high-energy physics will pose stringent requirements to computing, in particular to real-time data processing. As an example, the CBM experiment at FAIR Germany intends to perform online data selection exclusively in…
ATLAS detector at the LHC will undergo a major Phase-II upgrade for the High Luminosity LHC. The upgrade affects all major ATLAS systems, including the Trigger and Data Acquisition systems. As part of the Level-0 Trigger System, the Global…
LHCb is one of the major experiments operating at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The richness of the physics program and the increasing precision of the measurements in LHCb lead to the need of ever larger simulated samples. This need…
Estimations of trigger efficiencies are essential to modern particle physics analyses. A data-driven method provides a framework in which to estimate these efficiencies from the properties of reconstructed candidates, described in this…
The calibration and performance of the LHCb Calorimeter system in Run 1 and 2 at the LHC are described. After a brief description of the sub-detectors and of their role in the trigger, the calibration methods used for each part of the…
The performance of the three-level ATLAS muon trigger as evaluated by using LHC data is presented. Events have been selected by using only the hardware-based Level-1 trigger in order to commission and to subsequently enable the…
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become the standard in accelerating scientific applications on heterogeneous systems. However, as GPUs are getting faster, one potential performance bottleneck with GPU-accelerated applications is the…