Published 1996 | Version v1
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The processor farm for online triggering and full event reconstruction of the HERA-B experiment at HERA

  • 1. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)

Description

The main goal of the HERA-B experiment which start taking data in 1988 is to study CP violation in B decays. This article describes the concept and the planned implementation of a multi-processor system, called processor farm,as the last part of the data acquisition and trigger system of the HERAB experiment. The third level trigger task and a full online event reconstruction will be performed on this processor farm, consisting of more then 100 powerful RISC processors which are based on commercial hardware boards. The controlling will be done by a real-time operating system which provides a software development environment, including FORTRAN and C compilers. (author)

Part of:
Computing in high energy physics '95

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
World Scientific
Imprint Place
Singapore (Singapore)
ISBN
981-02-2783-3
Imprint Title
Computing in high energy physics '95
Imprint Pagination
1002 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 897-901

Conference

Title
Computing in high energy physics
Acronym
CHEP95
Dates
18-22 Sep 1995
Place
Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)

Optional Information

Notes
2 refs., 3 figs., 1 tab.