Title :
Farming in the HERA-B experiment
Author :
Hernandez, Jose M.
Author_Institution :
DESY, Zeuthen
Abstract :
The HERA-B data acquisition and triggering systems make use of Linux PC farms for triggering and online event reconstruction. We present in this paper the requirements, implementation and performance of both PC farms. They have been fully working during the 2000 detector and trigger commissioning run
Keywords :
data acquisition; high energy physics instrumentation computing; local area networks; position sensitive particle detectors; trigger circuits; Ethernet; HERA-B experiment; Linux PC farms; SHARC; SLT-SLB protocol; data acquisition; online event reconstruction; trigger commissioning; Buffer storage; Data acquisition; Delay; Detectors; Event detection; Filters; Hardware; Linux; Mesons; Target tracking;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2000 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Lyon
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6503-8
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2000.949423
