The page is being maintained to keep the far-flung and local members of the group area of progress in this area, and to serve as a reference for those who might have to make use of this software now or in future. Comments may be addressed to the author, Arthur La Porta . A roadmap describing what components are needed to make the system run and how to use them. For each frame the profile of the light intensity is read out from charge collection 512 strips. Currently two data acquisition computers are used, allowing two detectors to be read out simultaneously.
Plans call for four detectors to be used in the next generation of experiments.
Each set of 512 lines is divided into four groups of 128. The arrangment is illustrated in the sketch below. The data acquisition hardware must therefore read 8 simultaneous channels of data at 10 MHz, perform significant on-line data reduction, and write the data to disk. Design of the Cluster As mentioned above, four digital oscilliscope boards must be read simultaneously at a high throughput. The computers will be networked together using 100Mbs ethernet.