Run control techniques for the Fermilab DART data acquisition system
- and others
DART is the high speed, Unix based data acquisition system being developed by the Fermilab Computing Division in collaboration with eight High Energy Physics Experiments. This paper describes DART run-control which implements flexible, distributed, extensible and portable paradigms for the control and monitoring of data acquisition systems. We discuss the unique and interesting aspects of the run-control - why we chose the concepts we did, the benefits we have seen from the choices we made, as well as our experiences in deploying and supporting it for experiments during their commissioning and sub-system testing phases. We emphasize the software and techniques we believe are extensible to future use, and potential future modifications and extensions for those we feel are not.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03000
- OSTI ID:
- 135122
- Report Number(s):
- FNAL/C-95/324; CONF-9509237-3; ON: DE96002546; TRN: 96:001233
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: CHEP `95: computing in high energy physics, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 18-22 Sep 1995; Other Information: PBD: Oct 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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