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The Argo YBJ daq system and the GRID based data transfer
Antonio BudanoAlberto AloisioP. CretiP. CelioF. RuggieriF. GaleazziCristian StanescuP. BranchiniS. MastroianniS. CatalanottiR. GarganaG. Marsellasubject
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsEngineeringbusiness.industryGigabit Ethernetcomputer.software_genreGridData flow diagramData acquisitionNuclear Energy and EngineeringGrid computingNuclear electronicsData acquisition data mover GRID RPCElectrical and Electronic EngineeringbusinessThroughput (business)computerComputer hardwareData transmissiondescription
The Argo-YBJ experiment has now reached itsfinal design configuration. The detector system consists of a fullcoverage array (about 5800 square meters) of Resistive PlateChambers (RPCs). The throughput depends on the trigger rateand threshold. The DAQ system must be able to sustain a max-imum transfer rate of the order of 15 MB/s and a high peakdata flow. Data are read out using a typical front-end acquisitionchain built around a custom bus. Specialized electronics have beendesigned and dedicated software has been written to perform thistask. Data are sent to the online farm through a switch exploitinga gigabit ethernet protocol. A solution to transfer data from theYBJ laboratory to the laboratories belonging to the Argo-YBJcollaboration exploiting the GRID middleware has also beenimplemented. In this paper we describe the daq and the datamover main characteristics and performance.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-01-01 |