1 / 27

The ALICE DAQ: Current Status and Future Challenges P. VANDE VYVRE CERN-EP/AID

The ALICE DAQ: Current Status and Future Challenges P. VANDE VYVRE CERN-EP/AID. ALICE DAQ. The original and updated requirements The original requirements The updated requirements: higher multiplicity, addition of detector Future challenges The Region-Of-Interest readout

kasen
Download Presentation

The ALICE DAQ: Current Status and Future Challenges P. VANDE VYVRE CERN-EP/AID

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The ALICE DAQ:Current Status and Future ChallengesP. VANDE VYVRE CERN-EP/AID

  2. ALICE DAQ • The original and updated requirements • The original requirements • The updated requirements: higher multiplicity, addition of detector • Future challenges • The Region-Of-Interest readout • Online filtering • Enhanced data compression • The new architecture • Current prototyping status • The ALICE DATE • Data transfer, Sub-event building and event building • Mass Storage System and Permanent Data Storage • The ALICE Data Challenge The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  3. ALICE DAQ • The original and updated requirements • The original requirements • The updated requirements: higher multiplicity, addition of detector • Future challenges • The Region-Of-Interest readout • Online filtering • Enhanced data compression • The new architecture • Current prototyping status • The ALICE DATE • Data transfer, Sub-event building and event building • Mass Storage System and Permanent Data Storage • The ALICE Data Challenge The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  4. Original requirements: event size The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  5. Updated requirements: event size Higher multiplicity: increased TPC event size Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) added to ALICE The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  6. Original requirements: data throughput Conservative data compression to reduce the data throughput to 1.25 GBytes/s. The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  7. Updated requirements: data throughput Conservative data compression and event rate reduction insufficient The TRD allows new types of online processing The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  8. ALICE DAQ • The original and updated requirements • The original requirements • The updated requirements: higher multiplicity, addition of detector • Future challenges • The Region-Of-Interest readout • Online filtering • Enhanced data compression • The new architecture • Current prototyping status • The ALICE DATE • Data transfer, Sub-event building and event building • Mass Storage System and Permanent Data Storage • The ALICE Data Challenge The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  9. Future Challenges 1 • For dielectron events • Region-Of-Interest identified by the TRD • Could be used for • Region-Of-Interest readout Electron tracks in the TPC and TRD detectors Target: Reduce the event size from 80 to 5 MBytes • Online Filtering Refine dielectron L1 trigger by a software filter Target: Reduce the event rate from 200 to 20 Hz • Requires limited CPU power. Current estimate done with STAR data: 40 kCU • Physics simulation and DAQ prototyping are starting The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  10. Future Challenges 2 • For central and min. bias events Enhanced data compression for the TPC data Data compressed by applying to the raw data the following conversion: • Clusters finder • Local tracking • Raw data converted into: • Parameters of a local track model • Distances of the raw data clusters with the local track model • Requires massive CPU power. Current estimate done with STAR data: 400 kCU The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  11. Updated requirements: data throughput Partial readout for dielectron triggers Online filtering The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  12. Architecture upgrade The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  13. ALICE DAQ • The original and updated requirements • The original requirements • The updated requirements: higher multiplicity, addition of detector • Future challenges • The Region-Of-Interest readout • Online filtering • Enhanced data compression • The new architecture • Current prototyping status • The ALICE DATE • Data transfer, Sub-event building and event building • Mass Storage System and Permanent Data Storage • The ALICE Data Challenge The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  14. The ALICE DATE • DATE: Data Acquisition and Test Environment Software framework for the ALICE DAQ development & prototyping • Cover multiple needs with one common DAQ system • Need for a system to develop the DAQ • Need for a system for detector tests (lab and test beams) • Need for a framework to develop readout and monitoring programs • ALICE DATE • Data flow: multiple LDCs, multiple GDCs • Run control, error reporting, bookeeping • Common software interfaces for readout, online monitoring with ROOT • Independent from physical layers: LDC I/O bus, event building network, GDC machine • Used by ALICE test beams, NA57 and COMPASS The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  15. Source Interface Unit Destination Interface Unit Read Out Receiver Card Local Data Concentrator Data transfer Front-end electronics P2 Cavern DDL SIU Optical Fibre 200 meters Detector Data Links DDL DIU RORC P2 Access shaft Front- End Digital Crate/Computer LDC The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  16. Detector Data Link (DDL) • One-to-one data communication link (FEE and DAQ) • Main Requirements • Common interface between detector front-end electronics and DAQ • Single hardware & software to develop and maintain • Define interface soon to allow all the teams to work in parallel • Raw data transfer to DAQ • Data blocks download to FEE • Cover the distance from the detector in the cavern to the ALICE computing room in the access shaft (200 m.) • Implementation • Optical link • Off-The-Shelf components Gbit/s opto-electronic • Prototypes integrated with DATE. • Tests with detectors will start this year The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  17. DDL SIU prototype The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  18. DDL DIU prototype The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  19. RORC prototype The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  20. Sub-event building • Many-to-one data collection inside a crate or a computer • Collect data from several data sources over computer I/O bus • Assemble these data as one sub-event from a fraction of detector • Can work as a standalone DAQ system • Data sources • Current data sources are electronics cards in VME or Camac • Current sub-event building done in software by a DATE program (Readout) running in on the processor in a VME board • In the future: data sources will be DDL links • First RORC prototypes done in VME form-factor (1 VME board) • Second RORC prototype will be in PCI form-factor (1 PC adapter) • Following closely the industry evolution (PCI, PCIX, NGIO, FIO, SIO) The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  21. Event building • Event building network was initially a specially demanding application • Today’s dominant trends in computing and networking industry: • Internet is the strongest incentive for always higher bandwidth • Commodity computing and networking is driving the industry • Switches replace shared media • Ethernet is the standard LAN media, TCP/IP is the standard protocol • Ethernet’s successors have the advantage of the existing installed base • Event building network is similar to the backbone of a site like CERN: Ports: 15000 on Eth10, 2000 sur Eth 100, 30 on Eth 1000, Switches: 100 Eth100 or Eth1000, central bw 60 Gbps • Work focus: can we use standard LAN media and protocol and how ? The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  22. Mass Storage System ALICE DAQ GDC GDC GDC Disk Arrays MSS core server Network Main Data Servers MSS Meta data Tape Arrays MSS Secondary Data Servers Client System Client System NFS Servers DFS Servers The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  23. Mass Storage System • Isolate the DAQ and computing architecture from • the problems of physical data recording, CDR, volume handling etc • the technology evolution in the storage area (magnetic/optical, robotic etc) • Provide a logical structure to the storage infrastructure • For example a file system: /hpss/alice/2005/pbpb_run/run00001.raw /hpss/alice/2005/pbpb_run/run00002.raw ... • The MSS currently used by ALICE is HPSS but HPSS expensive and supported on a limited set of platforms, but MSS market is small • Other systems used in future prototypes: CASTOR, EUROSTORE The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  24. Permanent Data Storage • Multiple parallel streams of magnetic tapes • By LHC startup: • Standard drive should achieve 30-50 MBytes/s • Standard capacity should be 100-200 GBytes • 40 drives with 80 (dis)mounts/hour in total • Current CERN installation • Drive bandwidth 10 MBytes/s • Tape capacity 50 GBytes • 45 drives • 6 silos of 6000 cartridges of 50 GB: 1.8 PBytes capacity • Feasible but expensive solution. Ratio disk storage cost/tape storage cost decreasing rapidly By LHC time, online disk storage and offline archiving could be cost effective The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  25. Prototyping • Development and prototyping progressing in parallel • Prototyping with the ALICE Data Challenge (ADC) • Combined activity of the ALICE DAQ/ALICE Offline/IT teams • ADC1: 6 days at 14 MB/s (7 TB ROOT dataset) • ADC2: Large DATE system • Data sources (18 LDCs) • 9 Motorola VME + 2 IBM WS (Test beam area - Hall 887 on Prevessin site) • 7 Motorola VME + DDL prototypes (DAQ Lab - Bld 53 on Meyrin site) • Network: Fast Ethernet switches, gigabit ethernet backbone • Data destinations (computing center) • 20 PC/Linux for event building, ROOT I/O formatting, L3 filter • Central data recording (Target 100 MB/s) The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  26. ALICE Data Challenge II The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

  27. Conclusion • The requirements of the ALICE DAQ have evolved a lot • New ways to reduce the huge data volume will be investigated • Region-Of-Interest readout • Online filtering • Enhanced data compression scheme • Development progressing (almost according to schedule) The prototypes are tested during the ALICE Data Challenges • Future milestones: • Integration of DDL with detectors • ALICE Data Challenge II: from DDL to MSS @ 100MB/s • Computing and communication technology evolution positive • Area of concerns: Storage cost and Mass Storage System The ALICE DAQ : Current Status and Future Challenges 07-Feb-2000

More Related