High-throughput x-ray microtomography at FaXToR: a survey towards high performance image reconstruction

With the advent of new detector technologies, on-the-fly 3D data reconstruction became an important requirement at synchrotron-based micro-tomography beamlines to follow dynamics processes inside the samples. FaXToR beamline of the Spanish synchrotron ALBA will provide a high data throughput, making use of state-of-the-art CMOS fast detectors. Therefore, particular care is required in order to cope with the computing needs. The IT infrastructure will accomplish 3D data reconstruction, distributed processing and PB-sized data storage. Herein, the infrastructure and data workflow implemented at FaXToR are described, reaching a data throughput of 7.5GB/s and an on-the-fly 3D data reconstruction and visualization of more than three volumes per second.