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“Iconic” tracking algorithms for high energy physics using the trax-I massively parallel processor

✍ Scribed by G. Vesztergombi

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1989
Tongue: English
Weight: 576 KB
Volume: 57
Category: Article
ISSN: 0010-4655
DOI: 10.1016/0010-4655(89)90230-0

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✦ Synopsis

TRAX-I, a cost-effective parallel microcomputer, applying associative string processor (ASP) architecture with 16 K parallel processing elements, is being built by Aspex Microsystems Ltd. (UK). When applied to the tracking problem of very complex events with several hundred tracks, the large number of processors allows one to dedicate one or more processors to each wire (in MWPC), each pixel (in digitized images from streamer chambers or other visual detectors), or each pad (in TPC) to perform very efficient pattern recognition. Some linear tracking algorithms based on this "iconic" representation are presented.