G0 Data Acquisition Hardware and Software

This area of the G0 software effort will intimately interface with both electronics and Hall C Infrastructure groups and the Slow Controls and Analysis Computation sub-groups. Its responsibilities involve first insuring that the computer hardware required by G0 will be present and working. This includes items such as terminals, monitors for slow controls output, processors for on-line analysis and data acquisition, disk space, tape backup (including the tape), network hardware, front-end (VME) computers etc.. It does not include DAQ electronics (ADC's, scalers, associated interconnecting cables etc,) which is the responsibility of the electronics group. Nor does it include crates (VME, Camac, fastbus) or HV hardware which is the responsibility of the Hall C infrastructure group. This sub-group must, certify that the computer hardware is capable of absorbing the data stream produced by the electronics the slow controls hardware and software, i.e. that the rate and volume of data produced by G0 can be accommodated by the on-line analysis processing power and the storage media.

The CODA software necessary for reading out the electronics to produce a data stream, for storing that data stream, for backing up that storage to tape and for providing hooks for on-line analysis of the data stream are also the responsibility of this sub-group. Additionally an interface to the slow controls software must be maintained by this sub-group to allow slow controls parameters to be inserted into and stored along with the data stream.

Additional information concerning data acquisition for G0 is available below:

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Steven Williamson.