Prototype DAQ System (2)

ROOT

• Started playing with ROOT on NT and HP platforms. (ROOT is an OO histogramming package from Rene Brun).
• Aim to show that it can be used (as advertised) in a distributed environment. Fill, exchange and display histograms in multiple processes on several nodes.
• (Almost?) everything we wanted has been successfully demonstrated.

Prototype DAQ System

• We would like to develop a prototype of the final DAQ system to accompany the forthcoming round of prototype modules.
• Partly to test ideas on configuration, calibration, monitoring, etc for the final system.
• Partly to provide an environment for testing the ROD and the prototype modules, on their own and as part of joint tests with other systems (eg CTP, level 2, DAQ).
• Many of the required components of a DAQ system are available and have been evaluated (at some level). Until the DAQ -1 ``Dataflow'' solution is extended to the ROD crate environment, we will have to develop that aspect of the system ourselves.