nipscern

NIPS-CERN

NIPS-CERN is a research and development group working at the intersection of High Energy Physics, scientific computing, and high-performance hardware and software systems, in collaboration with CERN.

We operate from two bases:

Route Salam, Geneva, Switzerland
Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering (PPEE), Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Minas Gerais, Brazil

We design and build processor architectures, compilers, graphical interfaces, FPGA-based instrumentation, and research support tools, including:

SAPHO, Scalable-Architecture Processor for Hardware Optimization
YANC, Yet Another NIPS-CERN Compiler, the compiler toolchain of the SAPHO ecosystem
AURORA, the IDE for SAPHO: write C±, compile, simulate and inspect, with Aurora Intelligence
HITS, Hardware Impulse Train Synthesizer, a real-time FPGA simulator of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter readout
CGV, Calorimeter Geometry Viewer, 3D calorimeter event visualisation in any browser
nipscernweb, our institutional website at nipscern.com
surfer-aurora, the Surfer fork we maintain for AURORA, on GitLab

Beyond software, our work includes system architecture design, hardware and software co-design, educational tools, and computational support for scientific experiments.

A defining feature of NIPS-CERN is the direct involvement of undergraduate students, who contribute to real research projects in High Energy Physics and scientific computing, in collaboration with CERN and its experiments.

Our mission is to integrate engineering, software development, particle physics, art and logic into concrete tools, architectures, and systems that support scientific research and experimentation.

People

The people who work in the laboratory, kept in sync with data/team.json, the same source as nipscern.com/about.

Coordinator

Luciano Manhães de Andrade Filho.

Co-advisors

Eder Barboza Kapisch, Tiago Motta Quirino, Gustavo Barbosa Libotte, Bernardo Sotto-Maior Peralva.

Researchers

Chrysthofer Arthur Amaro Afonso, Fábio Cardani Luna, Melissa Santos Aguiar, Dabson Ferreira dos Santos, Leandro da Graça Ribeiro, Tiago Aparecido Teixeira, Ualison Rodrigo Ferreira Dias, Mateus Hufnagel Maranha de Faria, Nelson Cevidanes Nascimento de Assis, Kinn Belarmino Batista Dias, Thiago Campos Acácio Paschoalin.