NOvA Event Building, Buffering and Data-Driven Triggering From Within the DAQ System
- Fermilab
To make its core measurements, the NOvA experiment needs to make real-time data-driven decisions involving beam-spill time correlation and other triggering issues. NOvA-DDT is a prototype Data-Driven Triggering system, built using the Fermilab artdaq generic DAQ/Event-building tools set. This provides the advantages of sharing online software infrastructure with other Intensity Frontier experiments, and of being able to use any offline analysis module--unchanged--as a component of the online triggering decisions. The NOvA-artdaq architecture chosen has significant advantages, including graceful degradation if the triggering decision software fails or cannot be done quickly enough for some fraction of the time-slice ``events.'' We have tested and measured the performance and overhead of NOvA-DDT using an actual Hough transform based trigger decision module taken from the NOvA offline software. The results of these tests--98 ms mean time per event on only 1/16 of th e available processing power of a node, and overheads of about 2 ms per event--provide a proof of concept: NOvA-DDT is a viable strategy for data acquisition, event building, and trigger processing at the NOvA far detector.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1423267
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-CONF-12-302-CD; 1119636
- Journal Information:
- J.Phys.Conf.Ser., Vol. 396; Conference: 19th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, New York, USA, 05/21-05/25/2012
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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