Results from an ATM-based event builder demonstrator

Author

Costa, M. ; Dufey, J.P. ; Letheren, M. ; Marchioro, A. ; McLaren, R. ; Paillard, C. ; Gustafsson, L. ; Manabe, A. ; Nomachi, M. ; Calvet, D. ; Djidi, K. ; Du, P. Le ; Mandjavidze, I. ; Lazrak, T. ; Lindblad, Th ; Tenunen, H. ; De Prycker, M. ; Pauwels, B.

Author_Institution

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Volume

43

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1814

Lastpage

1820

Abstract

ATM switching fabrics are good candidates to implement high performance parallel event builders for the future data acquisition systems in particle physics experiments. We are studying their feasibility through simulations and implementation of event builder demonstrators. We present results from performance measurements made with a demonstrator based on a commercial ATM switch and on network interfaces that we have developed. The measurements are compared with the simulation studies and their scalability is discussed

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; computer interfaces; data acquisition; high energy physics instrumentation computing; network interfaces; network operating systems; parallel machines; ATM switching fabrics; ATM-based event builder demonstrator; data acquisition systems; high performance parallel event builders; network interfaces; particle physics experiments; performance measurements; scalability; Asynchronous transfer mode; Computational modeling; Cyclic redundancy check; Discrete event simulation; Laboratories; Packet switching; Scalability; Switches; Traffic control; Virtual colonoscopy;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.507228

Filename

507228