The CERN Host Interface

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Authors

R. A. McLaren · European Organization for Nuclear Research

Tim Berners‐Lee · European Organization for Nuclear Research

D. Chromek-Burckhart · European Organization for Nuclear Research

R. Divià · European Organization for Nuclear Research

B. Heurley · European Organization for Nuclear Research

K. Hollingworth · European Organization for Nuclear Research

D. Jacobs

Abstract

The authors discuss the CERN Host Interface Project, which aims to provide modular interfaces between Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX series computers and two popular high-energy physics buses, the VMEbus and FASTBUS. These user-programmable interfaces contain a powerful central processing unit, large data memories, and ports that allow the user to configure the interface for the required host computer and target bus. The software support and the optical data connection are described.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>

Topics & Keywords

Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Advanced Data Storage Technologies Scientific Computing and Data Management

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Affordable and clean energy

Publication Details

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volume 35, Issue 1, pp. 321-323

DOI: 10.1109/23.12734

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