Switchless event building farm for the belle data acquisition system
M. Nakao, R. Itoh, Soh Yamagata Suzuki, M. Yamauchi, Eunil Won, H.-W. Kim, S.-H. Roh, H.-W. Kim, H.-W. Kim, S. Yanaka · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science · 2001
We designed a switchless event building farm for the Belle experiment at the KEKB e/sup +/e/sup -/ collider, as a replacement of the existing event builder and the online farm systems. In the new system, PCs are directly interconnected with multiple point-to-point Fast and Gigabit Ethernet connections. The PCs build the detector data in two steps to perform distributed event processing. We set up a test system and confirmed the event building performance meets our new requirements using a realistic prototype software. The system is being installed as scheduled using the summer shutdown time in 2001.