DAQ & ECS Highlights in 2008

P. VANDE VYVRE – CERN/PH

ALICE CERN team - CERN 04 December 2008

DAQ & ECSHighlights in 2008

DAQ & ECSHighlights in 2008

04 December 2008 2 P. VANDE VYVRE CERN-PH

CERN People

• Valerio ALTINI (Aug. =>)

• Franco CARENA

• Wisla CARENA

• Sylvain CHAPELAND

• Vasco CHIBANTE BARROSO

• Filippo COSTA

• Roberto DIVIA

• March FRAUMANN (Sep =>)

• Ulrich FUCHS

• Irina MAKHLYUEVA (=> Dec)

• David RODRIGUEZ NAVARRO (Nov. =>)

• Filimon ROUKOUTAKIS (=> Oct.)

• Csaba SOOS

• Adriana TELESCA (Nov. =>)

• Pierre VANDE VYVRE

• Barthelemy VON HALLER (Apr. =>)

• Hardware and software design and development

• Packaging and installation

• Operation and support


Continuous 24/7 operation24/7 24/7

ALICE Year 1

Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct2007 2008

1st global run2 weeks

10-21 Dec

2nd global run5 weeks

4 Feb-9 Mar

3rd global run22 weeks

5 May – 12 Oct

1st beam10 Sep

1st particles 15 Jun

Injection tests8 Aug, 24 Aug

DAQ transition to continuous operation


Hardware upgrade: 40% nominal performances

Hardware

• 332 optical links from detectors273 optical links to HLT

• 130 PCs for data flow

• 45 TB of transient data storage

• 18 servers(configuration, control, & services)

• 50 desktop PCs and 120 screens for interactive work at Point 2

http://ph-dep-aid.web.cern.ch/ph-dep-aid/Developers/Attic/2007_07_19/InstallPt.2/photos/IMG_7275.jpg


DAQ – ECS Software

2006-82008

• ECS 10 k stable runs

• eLogbook1 M entries• InfoLogger 34 M

messageseLogbook

Data Quality MonitoringAMORE

16 releases in 2008


Detector/DAQ integration

SPD

SSD

SDD

TPC

TRD

TOF

MUON

TK

MUON

TG

HMPID

PHOSCP

FMD

T0

V0

ZDC

PMD

ACORDE

EMCAL

Final electronics with DDL & DATE

Trigger with LTU and TTC

Common Data Header (TRG info)

Data format check

Start/End of data

Detector algorithms

Commissioning with detectors


Data Taking

Stable data taking• Data 3 PB readout

350 TB recorded& archived CASTOR

• Data taking 515 days


Global Partition

1,0E+00

1,0E+01

1,0E+02

1,0E+03

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Time (Hours)

2007

2008

Number of detectors in the global partition

• ALICE: 18 detectors, 5 online systems• Run it as a single experiment !

DAQ & ECS Highlights in 2008

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