Published November 1992 | Version v1
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The E791 parallel architecture data acquisition system

Creators

  • 1. Fermilab, Batavia, IL (United States)
  • 2. Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
  • 3. Univ. of Mississippi, Oxford (United States)

Description

A high speed data acquisition system has been built for use with the E791 magnetic spectrometer at Fermilab. Events were accepted at the rate of 9,000 per second. Events were built, formatted and written to tape using 54 processors operating in parallel, housed in 6 VME crates. The data was written continuously to 42 Exabyte drives at a rate of 9.6 Mb/second. A 50 Terabyte data set was collected on 24,000 8mm tapes

Part of:
Proceedings of B Factories, the state of the art in accelerators, detectors and physics

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Proceedings of B Factories, the state of the art in accelerators, detectors and physics
Imprint Pagination
669 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 539-542.
Report number
SLAC--400

Conference

Title
state of the art in accelerators, detectors, and physics.
Acronym
B factories
Dates
6-10 Apr 1992.
Place
Stanford, CA (United States).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
24059766
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S99: GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ACCELERATORS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; FERMILAB ACCELERATOR; MAGNETIC SPECTROMETERS; PARALLEL PROCESSING
Descriptors DEC
CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PROGRAMMING; SPECTROMETERS; SYNCHROTRONS

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
CONF-9204126--.