Title : 
A management system of a multi-CPU based data acquisition system
         
        
            Author : 
Nagasaka, Y. ; Higuchi, T. ; Igarashi, Y. ; Nakao, M. ; Suzuki, S.Y. ; Tanaka, M. ; Uchida, T.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Hiroshima Inst. of Technol., Japan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A data acquisition system in almost all the high energy physics experiments is now requires high performance, i.e. a high speed data transfer, a high speed calculation for a data reduction, and so on. In order to achieve these requirements, a DAQ system based on multi-CPU will be applied. Several kinds of systems have lots of CPUs in not only an event building part but also a front-end one to reduce data. The number of CPUs will be more than 1,000 for such systems. However, it is not so easy to manage such a large number of CPUs. We have developed a management system for a multi-CPU based DAQ system. This system manages to boot up CPUs and to control and monitor them in the DAQ system. The management system consists of one root-server and several co-servers, which are connected with a cascade topology for a high scalability of the system. The system enables us to manage the multi-CPU based DAQ system easily.
         
        
            Keywords : 
data acquisition; data reduction; high energy physics instrumentation computing; DAQ system; cascade topology; coservers; data reduction; data transfer; high energy physics experiments; management system; multiCPU based data acquisition system; root-server; Control systems; Data acquisition; Detectors; Filtering; Hardware; Monitoring; Operating systems; Particle accelerators; Scalability; Topology;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2004 IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Rome
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-8700-7
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
1082-3654
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1462610