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15th biennial IEEE NPSS Real Time Computing Conference, chaired
by Margaret Votava of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, will
be held at the Laboratory in Batavia, IL USA during the week of
April 29th. This is the CANPS TC’s 2007 highlight. Topics
include:
• real time system architectures,
• front-end signal processing,
• high speed synchronous control, trigger and DAQ,
• event building and fast networks,
• online processing farms and databases,
• controls and monitoring,
• medical systems and data processing,
• and emerging real time technologies including the concept
of reconfigurable computing.
Several adaptations of this conference are foreseen for the 2007
edition. In addition to the traditional Plasma, Particle and Nuclear
Physics real time aspects, we want to promote new fields. For example,
Biomedical imaging real time data acquisition and processing is
becoming a real challenge for the future. A few presentations in
this field were made at the RT2003 and RT2005 conferences, and the
synergy with our traditional activities was greatly appreciated.
Also, the decision to build ITER, the next generation of experimental
fusion reactors, will generate new challenges in real time control
systems. These two examples show how rich and exciting the Real
Time field will be in the near future.
An exciting component of this year’s conference is a one-day
workshop on the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture
(ATCA). The workshop is planned to explore the merits of the ATCA
for use by the real-time science community. Our goal is to provide
information that will assist attendees in making design decisions
about utilizing ATCA hardware and associated software to achieve
high availability in large projects like the ILC. The morning session
consists of two tutorials on ATCA hardware and software offered
by experts in the telecommunications field. The afternoon will include
example projects from the NPSS community, a panel discussion of
ATCA suitability and alternatives, and a question and answer period
with informal demos.
The ATCA workshop will be held on Sunday, April 29th, with the regular
program to follow on Monday April 30th through Friday, May 4th.
The format of the program will primarily be the same as in previous
conferences with strictly plenary talks and poster sessions, with
poster presenters afforded the opportunity to “plug”
their posters with a 5 minute talk.
Margaret Votava, Chair of Real Time 2007, can be reached at
Fermilab, P.O. Box 500 MS 369, Batavia, IL 605110-0500; Phone: +1
630 840-2625; Fax: +11 630 840-6345; E-mail: votava@fnal.gov.
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