Abstract
The DAQ/HLT system of the ATLAS experiment at CERN, Switzerland, is being commissioned for first collisions in 2009. Presently, the system is composed of an already very large farm of computers that accounts for about one-third of its final event processing capacity. Event selection is conducted in two steps after the hardware-based Level-1 Trigger: a Level-2 Trigger processes detector data based on regions of interest (RoI) and an Event Filter operates on the full event data assembled by the Event Building system. The detector read out is fully commissioned and can be operated at its full design capacity. This places the responsibility on the High-Level Triggers system to select only events of highest physics interest that will finally reach the offline reconstruction farms. This paper brings an overview of the current ATLAS DAQ/HLT implementation and performance based on studies originated from its operation with simulated, cosmic particles and first-beam data. Its built-in event processing parallelism is presented and discussed.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 044 |
Journal | Proceedings of Science |
Volume | 70 |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2008 |
Event | 12th Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, ACAT 2008 - Erice, Italy Duration: 3 Nov 2008 → 7 Nov 2008 |
Funding
Funders | Funder number |
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I.N.F.N. | |
National Institute for Subatomic Physics | |
Nuclear Physics Institute | |
University of Copenhagen | |
New York University | |
University of Pennsylvania | |
University of Michigan | |
Michigan State University | |
McGill University | |
Lancaster University | |
Indiana University Bloomington | |
Hemophilia of Iowa | |
Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri | |
University of Manchester | |
University of London | |
University of Liverpool | |
Universidad Nacional de La Plata | |
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare | |
The University of Osaka | |
Nagoya University | |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa | |
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization | |
Università di Pisa | |
Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules |