Abstract

The data acquisition system (DAQ) of the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) assembles events at a rate of 100 kHz, transporting event data at an aggregate throughput of 100GB/s to the high-level trigger (HLT) farm. The DAQ system has been redesigned during the LHC shutdown in 2013/14. The new DAQ architecture is based on state-of-the-art network technologies for the event building. For the data concentration, 10/40 Gbps Ethernet technologies are used together with a reduced TCP/IP protocol implemented in FPGA for a reliable transport between custom electronics and commercial computing hardware. A 56 Gbps Infiniband FDR CLOS network has been chosen for the event builder. This paper discusses the software design, protocols, and optimizations for exploiting the hardware capabilities. We present performance measurements from small-scale prototypes and from the full-scale production system.

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Title
A New Event Builder for CMS Run II
Author
Albertsson, K 1 ; J-M, Andre 2 ; Andronidis, A 1 ; Behrens, U 3 ; Branson, J 4 ; Chaze, O 1 ; Cittolin, S 4 ; G-L Darlea 5 ; Deldicque, C 1 ; Dobson, M 1 ; Dupont, A 1 ; Erhan, S 6 ; Gigi, D 1 ; Glege, F 1 ; Gomez-Ceballos, G 5 ; Hegeman, J 1 ; Holzner, A 4 ; Jimenez-Estupiñán, R 1 ; Masetti, L 1 ; Meijers, F 1 ; Meschi, E 1 ; Mommsen, R K 2 ; Morovic, S 1 ; Nunez-Barranco-Fernandez, C 1 ; O'Dell, V 2 ; Orsini, L 1 ; Paus, C 5 ; Petrucci, A 1 ; Pieri, M 4 ; Racz, A 1 ; Roberts, P 1 ; Sakulin, H 1 ; Schwick, C 1 ; Stieger, B 1 ; Sumorok, K 5 ; Veverka, J 5 ; Zaza, S 1 ; Zejdl, P 1 

 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 
 FNAL, Chicago, Illinois, USA 
 DESY, Hamburg, Germany 
 University of California, San Diego, California, USA 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 
 University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA 
Publication year
2015
Publication date
Dec 2015
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17426588
e-ISSN
17426596
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2576452484
Copyright
© 2015. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.