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The CERN experiment NA48 is actively using a 64-processor Meiko CS-2 machine provided by the ESPRIT project GP-MIMD2, running, as part of their day-to-day work, simulation and analysis programs parallelized in the framework of the project. The CS-2 is also used as a data warehouse for NA48: data coming at high rate from the experiment are processed in real-time and written to DEC DLTs using the Meiko Parallel File System (PFS) as a high-speed I/O buffer.
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Apostolakis, J. et al. (1996). General-purpose parallel computing in a high-energy physics experiment at CERN. In: Liddell, H., Colbrook, A., Hertzberger, B., Sloot, P. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1067. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61142-8_555
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