1. Online Data Challenges David Lawrence, JLab Feb. 20, 2014 2/20/14Online Data Challenges

2. Online Data Challenge 2013 Primary participants: Elliott Wolin, Sean Dobbs, David Lawrence When: August 26 – 29, 2013 Where: Hall-D Counting House Objective: Test data flow and monitoring between final stage Event Builder (EB) and tape silo (i.e. neither the DAQ system nor the offline were included) 2/20/14 Online Data Challenges

3. Input Data Pythia-generated events simulated, smeared, and passed through L1 event filter* Events digitized and written in EVIO format – mc2coda library used to write in the new event building scheme specification provided by DAQ group – Translation table derived from Fernando’s spreadsheet detailing the wiring scheme that will be used *event filter may have used uncalibrated BCAL energy units, but resulted in roughly 36% of events being kept. 2/20/14Online Data Challenges

4. Computers systems (many of these on loan) *n.b. all L3 machines connected via InfiniBand 2/20/14 Online Data Challenges

5. L3 Infrastructure Test 10 nodes used to pass events from Event Builder (EB) to Event Recorder (ER) – EB on gluon44, ER on halldraid1 Two “pass-through” modes used: – Simple buffer copy without parsing (40kHz) – Buffer copy with parsing and application of translation table (~13kHz) 2/20/14Online Data Challenges DL3TriggerBDT algorithm from MIT – Unable to run for extended time without crashing – Cause of crashes unknown and under investigation MIT and TMVA code itself have been eliminated as causes – Total rate of ~7.2KHz

6. L3 Prototype Farm 2/20/14Online Data Challenges Fast Computers used for testing (gluon44, gluon45)Computers ordered for L3 infrastructure Max rate estimate for L3-BDT prototype farm: (1.6kHz)(12366/5104)(10 nodes) = ~39kHz 10 Computers ordered and will be shipped next week for L3 prototype farm

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8. Monitoring System (RootSpy) test Histograms produced by several plugins were displayed via the RootSpy GUI Overlay with archive histograms RootSpy archiver (writing summed histograms to file) Integration with CODAObjects Still need to fully implement final histograms mechanism Pre-L3 Monitoring Post-L3 Monitoring 2/20/14Online Data Challenges

9. Other monitoring Ganglia installed and working for monitoring general health of all computer nodes 2/20/14Online Data Challenges JANA built-in monitoring available via cMsg allowing remote: – Probing for rates – Changing number of threads – Pause, resume, quit (either individually or as group)

10. RAID to Silo test Transfer from RAID disk to silo tested – At least 50MB/s achieved, but possibly higher – Certificate and jput set up, but we were informed later that a different mechanism should be used for experimental data from the halls – Will arrange for IT division experts to come run tests and educate us on the proper way we should be transferring to the silo 2/20/14Online Data Challenges

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12. Primary Goals 2/20/14Online Data Challenges 1.Test system integration from L1 trigger to tape using low rate, cosmic trigger 2.Test system integration from ROC to tape using M.C. data at high rate 3.Test calibration event tagging3 secondary goal: Test multiple output streams *Fully installed and calibrated trigger system is not required (only 1 crate needed). *Fully installed controls system is not required (only on/off of some channels needed).

13. Differences from ODC2013 Data will come from crates in hall CODA-component Farm Manager New ROOTSpy features – advanced archiver functions – reference histograms High speed copy from RAID to Tape Library Faster farm CPUs ( 16 core, 2.6GHz Xeon E5-2650 ) 2/20/14Online Data Challenges

14. Schedule 2/20/14Online Data Challenges ODC2014: May 12-16, 2014

15. Summary EB to ER Data flow piece tested – L3 infrastructure tested and works in pass-through mode at 40kHz (mysterious issues with L3 plugin still being tracked down) Monitoring system tested – Identical pre-L3 and post-L3 monitoring systems – RootSpy GUI used with multiple producers – RootSpy archiver RAID to Tape silo tested – Successfully transferred > 1TB from counting house to silo at >= 50MB/s – Rate seemed slower than anticipated by factor of 2, but measurement mechanism not accurate due to staging – Alternate transfer method has been advised and will be pursued 2/20/14Online Data Challenges