The Control Unit of the KM3NeT Data Acquisition System

Aiello S, Ameli F, Domi A, Kalekin O, Andre M, Androulakis G, Anghinolfi M, Anton G, Ardid M, Aublin J, Bagatelas C, Barbarino G, Baret B, du Pree SB, Bendahman M, Berbee E, van den Berg AM, Bertin V, van Beveren V, Biagi S, Biagioni A, Bissinger M, Boumaaza J, Bourret S, Bouta M, Bouvet G, Bouwhuis M, Bozza C, Brânzaş H, Bruchner M, Bruijn R, Brunner J, Buis E, Buompane R, Busto J, Calvo D, Capone A, Celli S, Chabab M, Chau N, Cherubini S, Chiarella V, Chiarusi T, Circella M, Cocimano R, Coelho JA, Coleiro A, Molla MC, Colonges S, Coniglione R, Coyle P, Creusot A, Cuttone G, D'Onofrio A, Dallier R, De Palma M, Di Palma I, Díaz AF, Diego-Tortosa D, Distefano C, Domi A, Donà R, Donzaud C, Dornic D, Dörr M, Durocher M, Eberl T, El Bojaddaini I, Eljarrari H, Elsaesser D, Enzenhöfer A, Fermani P, Ferrara G, Filipović MD, Franco A, Fusco LA, Gal T, Soto AG, Garufi F, Gialanella L, Giorgio E, Gozzini SR, Gracia R, Graf K, Grasso D, Grégoire T, Grella G, Guderian D, Guidi C, Hallmann S, Hamdaoui H, van Haren H, Heijboer A, Hekalo A, Hernández-Rey JJ, Hofestädt J, Huang F, Illuminati G, James CW, Jansweijer P, de Jong M, de Jong P, Kadler M, Kalaczyński P, Kalekin O, Katz UF, Chowdhury NR, van der Knaap F, Koffeman EN, Kooijman P, Kouchner A, Kulikovskiy V, Lahmann R, Larosa G, Le Breton R, Leone F, Leonora E, Levi G, Lincetto M, Clark ML, Lonardo A, Longhitano F, Lopez-Coto D, Maggi G, Mańczak J, Mannheim K, Margiotta A, Marinelli A, Markou C, Martignac G, Martin L, Martínez-Mora JA, Martini A, Marzaioli F, Mazzou S, Mele R, Melis KW, Migliozzi P, Migneco E, Mijakowski P, Miranda LS, Mollo CM, Morganti M, Moser M, Moussa A, Muller R, Musumeci M, Nauta L, Navas S, Nicolau CA, Nielsen C, Ó Fearraigh B, Organokov M, Orlando A, Panagopoulos V, Papalashvili G, Papaleo R, Pastore C, Păvălaş GE, Pellegrino C, Perrin-Terrin M, Piattelli P, Pieterse C, Pikounis K, Pisanti O, Poirè C, Polydefki G, Popa V, Post M, Pradier T, Pühlhofer G, Pulvirenti S, Quinn L, Raffaelli F, Randazzo N, Rapicavoli A, Razzaque S, Real D, Reck S, Reubelt J, Riccobene G, Richer M, Rigalleau L, Rovelli A, Salvadori I, Samtleben DF, Sánchez Losa A, Sanguineti M, Santangelo A, Santonocito D, Sapienza P, Schnabel J, Sciacca V, Seneca J, Sgura I, Shanidze R, Sharma A, Simeone F, Sinopoulou A, Spisso B, Spurio M, Stavropoulos D, Steijger J, Stellacci SM, Strandberg B, Stransky D, Taiuti M, Tayalati Y, Tenllado E, Thakore T, Tingay S, Tzamariudaki E, Tzanetatos D, Van Elewyck V, Vannoye G, Versari F, Viola S, Vivolo D, de Wasseige G, Wilms J, Wojaczyński R, de Wolf E, Zaborov D, Zegarelli A, Zornoza JD, Zúñiga J (2020)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2020

Journal

Book Volume: 256

Article Number: 107433

DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107433

Abstract

The KM3NeT Collaboration runs a multi-site neutrino observatory in the Mediterranean Sea. Water Cherenkov particle detectors, deep in the sea and far off the coasts of France and Italy, are already taking data while incremental construction progresses. Data Acquisition Control software is operating off-shore detectors as well as testing and qualification stations for their components. The software, named Control Unit, is highly modular. It can undergo upgrades and reconfiguration with the acquisition running. Interplay with the central database of the Collaboration is obtained in a way that allows for data taking even if Internet links fail. In order to simplify the management of computing resources in the long term, and to cope with possible hardware failures of one or more computers, the KM3NeT Control Unit software features a custom dynamic resource provisioning and failover technology, which is especially important for ensuring continuity in case of rare transient events in multi-messenger astronomy. The software architecture relies on ubiquitous tools and broadly adopted technologies and has been successfully tested on several operating systems.

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Aiello, S., Ameli, F., Domi, A., Kalekin, O., Andre, M., Androulakis, G.,... Zúñiga, J. (2020). The Control Unit of the KM3NeT Data Acquisition System. Computer Physics Communications, 256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107433

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Aiello, S., et al. "The Control Unit of the KM3NeT Data Acquisition System." Computer Physics Communications 256 (2020).

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