CODA performance in the real world
Abstract
The most ambitious implementation of the Jefferson Lab data acquisition system (CODA) to date is for the CLAS spectrometer in Experimental Hall B. CLAS has over 40,000 instrumented channels and uses up to 30 front-end (FASTBUS/VME) crates in the DAQ subsystem. During the initial experiments the authors found that performance of the fully instrumented DAQ system did not scale as expected based on single point to point benchmarks. Over the past year the authors have been able to study various performance bottlenecks in the CLAS DAQ system including front-end real time performance, switched 100BaseT Ethernet data transport, and online data distribution and recording. Performance tuning was necessary for components on both real time (VxWorks) and UNIX (Solaris) operating systems. In addition, a new efficient Event Transfer System (ET) was developed to provide faster online monitoring while having minimal impact on data throughput to storage. They discuss these issues and efforts to overcome the real world problems associated with running a high performance DAQ system on a variety of commercial hardware and software.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (US)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 754036
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER-40150-1343; JLAB-PHY-99-12
TRN: US0002180
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84ER40150
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Real Time '99, Santa Fe, NM (US), 06/14/1999--06/18/1999; Other Information: PBD: 1 Jun 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; CEBAF ACCELERATOR; MAGNETIC SPECTROMETERS; DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; DATA TRANSMISSION; SPECTROMETER
Citation Formats
Abbott, D J, Heyes, W G, Jastrzembski, E, MacLeod, R W, Timmer, C, and Wolin, E. CODA performance in the real world. United States: N. p., 1999.
Web.
Abbott, D J, Heyes, W G, Jastrzembski, E, MacLeod, R W, Timmer, C, & Wolin, E. CODA performance in the real world. United States.
Abbott, D J, Heyes, W G, Jastrzembski, E, MacLeod, R W, Timmer, C, and Wolin, E. Tue .
"CODA performance in the real world". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/754036.
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abstractNote = {The most ambitious implementation of the Jefferson Lab data acquisition system (CODA) to date is for the CLAS spectrometer in Experimental Hall B. CLAS has over 40,000 instrumented channels and uses up to 30 front-end (FASTBUS/VME) crates in the DAQ subsystem. During the initial experiments the authors found that performance of the fully instrumented DAQ system did not scale as expected based on single point to point benchmarks. Over the past year the authors have been able to study various performance bottlenecks in the CLAS DAQ system including front-end real time performance, switched 100BaseT Ethernet data transport, and online data distribution and recording. Performance tuning was necessary for components on both real time (VxWorks) and UNIX (Solaris) operating systems. In addition, a new efficient Event Transfer System (ET) was developed to provide faster online monitoring while having minimal impact on data throughput to storage. They discuss these issues and efforts to overcome the real world problems associated with running a high performance DAQ system on a variety of commercial hardware and software.},
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