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Revision as of 12:18, 13 June 2014

The Data Acquisition System (DAQ)

GlueX DAQ system is based on CODA software toolkit.

DAQ consists of ~50 embedded hardware readout controllers known as ROCs running LINIX OS, communicating with many other (data transfer, control and monitoring) processes. Data is transported between processors using standard network protocols (TCP/IP).

Routine Operation

Starting and stopping the DAQ System

Steps to start DAQ processes in case of all HW is powered up:

1. Login as hdops user on any gluonXX computer and execute:

HDOPS gluon47:~> cd CDAQ/ 
HDOPS gluon47:~/CDAQ> source online_setup.cshrc
HDOPS gluon47:~/CDAQ> rcm.sh

This will bring up the screen for DAQ configuration:

Fig. 1.

Run Control operation

DAQ for standalone run of subdetector can be started in interactive mode, when all processes open x-terminal window. Running whole system in this mode is impractical, due to a large number of windows (50+), and in this case most of processes should be strted in backgroung, keeping only run control window.

Fig. 2.