Summary: Requests to DAQ group

Required DAQ Functionality

NOW

Core (and maybe a few other) Backend DAQ components

NOW

Framework for reading events from RODs and other modules (in a ``single'' crate)

NOW

Framework for monitoring events

By 2001

Requirement for reading synchronised events from different crates (given mechanisms in the modules to support this)

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Short term requirement is more for functionality rather than performance

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DAQ group to support evolution from DAQ -1 to final DAQ system (eg recent script to aid migration to new backend APIs)

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Agreed set of hardware platforms and operating systems to be supported from now until commissioning of the final system.