DAQ and ECS system for TPC commissioning at
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DAQ and ECS system for TPC commissioning at Point 2 Klaus Schossmaier CERN PH-AID ALICE TPC Meeting 22 November 2005
Hardware installed RCU RCU SIU SIU RCU SIU 20 fibers tested: - Round-trip att. < 4 d. B - one way 176 metres PC PC (Control) HLT Farm 4 x DRORC 2 x DRORC LDC LDC Event Building Network (Gigabit Ethernet) Server GDC SXL 2 General Purpose Network (GPN) RCU PX 24/CR 2 PX 24/CR 1 Gateway (DATE, ECS) TDS 10/25/2021 2 TB Disk array (RAID 5) 2
Software installed ® Scientific Linux CERN (SLC 3) ® Kernel, drivers, services, accounts, … ® DAQ software: DATE V 5. 12 ® ® ® DDL readout with CDH processing (event ID, SOD/EOD events) RCU control/configuration via DDL (Fe. C 2 scripts) Sub event-building (LDC), full event-building (GDC) HLT interplay (copy data stream, handle decision/data stream) Recording to local storage (support for raw and ROOT format) Configuration via database, message logging, … ® Experiment Control System (ECS) ® Required for combined run with ≥ 2 systems (TRG, DAQ, DCS, HLT) ® On-line Monitoring ® Performance with the web-based tool AFFAIR ® Data quality with the pad monitor MOOD the decoder can handle RCU zero-suppressed data files ® User’s guide ® Complete documentation for DATE, ECS, AFFAIR, MOOD ® TPC contact person for the DAQ? 10/25/2021 3
PX 24/CR 1 DDL patch panel PDU Switch LDCs GDC Storage Gateway 10/25/2021 Server 4
