PC's as Graphics Stations for the New TRIUMF Vax-Based Data Acquisition and Analysis System

The requirements of fast graphics display and low impact on the data acquisition and analysis system (DAAS) VAX host prompted TRIUMF to adopt PC's on an ethernet as graphics workstations for the new VAX-based DAAS. This multiprocessor solution provides for high speed host to workstation data transfer for image display, and independence of the host's CPU loading for the provision of advanced graphics services such as image storage, replotting, image-data transformations, peak fitting, statistics calculations, comparison of stored images etc.