Data archiving and distribution of the Virgo antenna for gravitational wave detection

Author

Barone, F. ; Eleuteri, A. ; Garufi, F. ; Milano, L.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Sci. Fisiche, Naples Univ., Italy

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

450

Lastpage

454

Abstract

We describe the architecture of the Data Archiving and Distribution of the Virgo antenna for gravitational wave detection. The main characteristic of this system is the modularity of the architecture, which allows to upgrade it following the progress of the technology without dramatic changes in the hardware and software components. Its main performances are: 1. raw data archiving at a maximum sustained data flow of 10 Mbyte/s on DLT tapes (35/70 Gbyte); 2. data archiving capacity on disk up to 1 Tbyte at a maximum sustained data flow of 25 Mbyte/s for the online data distribution; 3. data retrieval for on-line distribution up to 10 Mbyte/s. The basic architecture of the system consists of two sections: an acquisition and storage section and a data management section. The former is a LynxOS based system with the disks directly connected to the CPU slave boards, the latter is a DEC-Unix Alpha Server (Data Server), which NFS mounts the LynxOS disks through a Fast Ethernet network

Keywords

astronomy computing; data acquisition; gravitational wave detectors; CPU slave boards; DEC-Unix Alpha Server; Fast Ethernet network; LynxOS based system; Virgo antenna; data acquisition; data archiving; data distribution; data management section; gravitational wave detection; modularity; storage section; Computer architecture; Detectors; Earth; Extraterrestrial measurements; Frequency; Hardware; Interferometers; Network servers; Object detection; Sampling methods;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference, 1999. Santa Fe 1999. 11th IEEE NPSS

Conference_Location

Sante Fe, NM

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5463-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTCON.1999.842665

Filename

842665