Ike
2/8/2006, 04:26 PM
I like posting these because I like thinking that I am keeping you f'in hillbillies at least a little informed about some of the cool things coming down the pike in cutting edge science.
anyway, this article deals with an experiment that will be very much like the one I am working on (and one I could very well be working on after graduation), except that their machine hasn't turned on yet, and when it does it will pretty much blow ours out of the water.
anyway, this is about just one little piece of this experiment, a subsystem of what is known as the trigger system that tells you if an 'event' is interesting enough to record. anyway, this particular subsystem has to examine many millions of 'channels' in each event (which will occur once ever 25 nanoseconds), and be part of a decision making process that must occur at unthinkable speeds. This article is calling it The worlds fastest image processor (http://www.news.wisc.edu/12105.html), which I suppose is an apt enough name for it.
anyway, this article deals with an experiment that will be very much like the one I am working on (and one I could very well be working on after graduation), except that their machine hasn't turned on yet, and when it does it will pretty much blow ours out of the water.
anyway, this is about just one little piece of this experiment, a subsystem of what is known as the trigger system that tells you if an 'event' is interesting enough to record. anyway, this particular subsystem has to examine many millions of 'channels' in each event (which will occur once ever 25 nanoseconds), and be part of a decision making process that must occur at unthinkable speeds. This article is calling it The worlds fastest image processor (http://www.news.wisc.edu/12105.html), which I suppose is an apt enough name for it.