| Event Building in the ATLAS DAQ/EF Prototype “-1” (2007) | |||||||||||||||
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| In the framework of the ATLAS DAQ/EF prototype “-1 ” a stand-alone smallscale event building prototype has been developed in order to study the issues of switch-based parallel event building as needed for experiments at LHC. The event building prototype is designed in two layers: the technology-independent layer defines a high-level event building model, while the technology dependent layer uses commercially available interfaces and switches for a choice of three technologies: ATM, Fast Ethernet and Fibre Channel. The decoupling of the two layers is achieved by the means of a connection-oriented message passing library. The prototype has been implemented using PowerPC-based VME processors running a real-time UNIX operating system and works successfully with emulated input and output. The performance in terms of total throughput and protocol overhead for all three technologies has been measured. 1 | |||||||||||||||
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