The DZERO Level 3 data acquisition system

R. Angstadt, G. Brooijmans, D. Chapin, M. Clements, D. Cutts, A. Haas, R. Hauser, M. Johnson, A. Kulyavtsev, S. E.K. Mattingly, M. Mulders, P. Padley, D. Petravick, R. Rechenmacher, S. Snyder, G. Watts

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Abstract

The DZERO experiment began RunII datataking operation at Fermilab in spring 2001. The physics program of the experiment requires the Level 3 data acquisition (DAQ) system system to handle average event sizes of 250 kilobytes at a rate of 1 kHz. The system routes and transfers event fragments of approximately 1-20 kilobytes from 63 VME crate sources to any of approximately 100 processing nodes. It is built upon a Cisco 6509 Ethernet switch, standard PCs, and commodity VME single board computers (SBCs). The system has been in full operation since spring 2002.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)445-450
Number of pages6
JournalIEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume51
Issue number3 I
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2004
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Computer networks
  • Data acquisition
  • Monitoring
  • Physics
  • Triggering

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Nuclear Energy and Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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