Title :
Flash memory-based data acquisition system with NOBLE
Author :
Nagasaka, Y. ; Miyamoto, S. ; Obata, T. ; Sakamoto, Y. ; Asai, M. ; Tamura, N. ; Kato, Y. ; Saskamoto, H. ; Ishihara, N.
Author_Institution :
Hiroshima Inst. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
Several types of board computers, such as VME, CompactPCI, and so on, are used in high energy physics experiments. They are usually used as a diskless system booted through a network. Such an architecture is easy to use once the setup is completed. However, if the network goes down, the system can no longer be started up. One of the solutions for this problem is to use an on-board flash memory device as a boot device. As the basic architecture of a flash memory-based data acquisition system, we have developed a networked on-board Linux environment (NOBLE) distribution package in order to ensure easy installation of an operating system on a flash memory device.
Keywords :
Unix; computer maintenance; data acquisition; flash memories; high energy physics instrumentation computing; system buses; Compact PCI; NOBLE; VME; board computers; boot device; computer maintenance; diskless system; distributed computing; distribution package; flash memory-based data acquisition system; high energy physics experiments; networked on-board Linux environment; on-board flash memory device; operating system; Central Processing Unit; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Data acquisition; Flash memory; Kernel; Linux; Operating systems; Packaging; Physics computing; Computer maintenance; data acquisition; distributed computing; operating system;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.2004.832320
