Data compaction system for E821 (g-2) experiment

Paper: 146
Session: C (poster)
Presenter: Chertovskikh, Andrey, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk
Keywords: algorithms, communication, data acquisition systems, event building, parallelization


Data compaction system for E821 (g-2) experiment.


Yu.I.Merzlyakov, A.G.Chertovskikh, I.V.Sorokin, A.V.Klishin

Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

P.Cushman, C.Timmermans

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN55455, USA


Abstract

The E821 (g-2) experiment is due to start in 1997. It's second
phase, including muon injection will be producing a huge flow of data
demanding on-line lossless data compaction before storing it on magnetic
media. A hardware/software data compaction system is described including
software algorithms and parallel data handling multicomputer VME system