P. VANDE VYVRE – CERN/PH
ALICE CERN team - CERN 04 December 2008
DAQ & ECSHighlights in 2008
DAQ & ECSHighlights in 2008
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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
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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
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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
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DAQ – ECS Software
2006-82008
• ECS 10 k stable runs
• eLogbook1 M entries• InfoLogger 34 M
messageseLogbook
Data Quality MonitoringAMORE
16 releases in 2008
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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
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Data Taking
Stable data taking• Data 3 PB readout
350 TB recorded& archived CASTOR
• Data taking 515 days