In a Three-Year Arrangement, IDT’s Low-Latency RapidIO Interconnect
Technology Will Be Used for More Efficient and Effective Analysis of
Massive Data at CERN
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- (Business Wire)
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT®)
(NASDAQ:IDTI) announced today that it has entered a three-year
collaboration with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
to use IDT’s
RapidIO technology to help improve data acquisition and analysis in
some of the world’s most advanced fundamental physics research. Massive
volumes of data are collected by the experiments on CERN’s Large Hadron
Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle
accelerator. Teams from IDT and CERN will use the IDT technology to
improve the quality and timeliness of this data collection, as well as
the initial analysis and reconstruction work at the experiments’ data
farms and the CERN Data Centre.
The LHC produces millions of collisions every second in each detector,
generating approximately one petabyte of data per second. This data is
vital to CERN’s quest to answer fundamental questions about the
universe. The RapidIO technology provides a low-latency connection
between clusters of computer processors, dramatically speeding the
movement of data. Widely used for 4G base stations, IDT’s low-latency
RapidIO products can also enable real-time data analytics and data
management for high-performance computing (HPC) and data centers.
As part of the mandate for the fifth phase of the CERN openlab
partnership, several of the LHC experiments are exploring the
possibility of moving from custom-built hardware and backplanes to fully
programmable heterogeneous computing with low-latency interconnect
between large clusters of processors. IDT’s current RapidIO 20 Gbps
interconnect products will be used in the first stage of the
collaboration with an upgrade path to RapidIO 10xN 40 Gbps technology in
the future as research at CERN progresses.
"This CERN collaboration is about enabling programmable real-time
mission critical data analytics,” said Sailesh Chittipeddi, IDT's vice
president of Global Operations and chief technology officer. “Since the
job spans multiple processors, the interconnect between them has to be
ultra-low latency, and our technology—already used across 4G wireless
base station deployments worldwide—is ideally suited to CERN’s real-time
interconnect needs."
Because of the volume of real-time data CERN collects, current
implementations are done in custom-built ASIC hardware. Using algorithms
implemented in hardware, the data is sampled, and only 1 percent is
selected for further analysis.
“The bottleneck for better data acquisition, selection and analytics is
superior real-time interconnect,” said Alberto Di Meglio, head of CERN
openlab. “Our collaboration with IDT to develop a RapidIO-based
computing architecture should help solve CERN’s real-time data filtering
problem, enabling us to select and utilize more meaningful events from
the LHC and improve efficiency of analytics in our data center
monitoring and operations.”
The collaboration is based on industry standard IT form factor solutions
suitable for deployment in HPC clusters and data centers. Engineers will
use heterogeneous servers based on specifications from RapidIO.org that
are targeted towards the Open Compute Project High Performance Computing
initiative that IDT co-chairs.
“We established the HPC initiative to service the unique needs of those
end users with the highest compute-centric workloads in the industry,”
said Corey Bell, CEO of the Open Compute Project. “CERN has some of the
most stringent workloads for low-latency computing, so this
collaboration is a great opportunity to see the benefits of RapidIO in
action.”
The computing platform used for the collaboration is based on
commercially available RapidIO-enabled 1U heterogeneous servers capable
of supporting industry-standard servers, GPU, FPGA and low-power 64-bit
SoCs, as well as top-of-rack RapidIO switches available from Prodrive
Technologies.
About CERN openlab
CERN openlab, which is now entering its fifth three-year phase, is a
unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading ICT
companies. Its mission is to accelerate the development of innovative
new solutions to be used by the worldwide LHC community. CERN openlab
provides companies with a framework to test and validate cutting-edge
information technologies and services in partnership with CERN.
About CERN
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's
leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in
Geneva. At CERN, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental
structure of the universe. They use the world's largest and most complex
scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter – the
fundamental particles.
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Integrated Device Technology, Inc. develops system-level solutions that
optimize its customers’ applications. IDT uses its market leadership in
timing, serial switching and interfaces, and adds analog and system
expertise to provide complete application-optimized, mixed-signal
solutions for the communications, computing and consumer segments.
Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., IDT has design, manufacturing, sales
facilities and distribution partners throughout the world. IDT stock is
traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market® under the symbol
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