FRIB Data Acquisition Working Group

2016 LECM Satellite meeting

Jordan Science Hall, University of Notre Dame

Thursday August 11, 2016

Issues and topics for discussion

The FRIB DAQ working group will be hosting a satellite meeting on Thursday August 11, 2016 to precede the Low Energy Community Meeting. The satellite meeting is open to all and participation is encouraged as we will discuss topics relevant for reading out detector systems and analyzing data in the FRIB era. We plan to have remote conferencing available for those who cannot be present in person. Topics and some questions that will be addressed and discussed are:

Operation of the working group

Understand the data acquisition and analysis needs of the FRIB user community using meetings and topical panels, promoting the development of standards and implementations to meet those needs.

Input from the community

• Review of 2015 workshop at Argonne National Laboratory
• 2016 Questionnaire responses

Topical Panels of the community

• Interfaces of experiments with the accelerator slow controls
• Timing and synchronization of FRIB detector systems
• Additional panel topics
  • Trigger construction and exchange
  • Event building
  • Run Control
  • Data analysis - online and offline

Computational, network and storage resources required and desired by FRIB systems and researchers

• Network Bandwidth; internal and external connectivity (access)
• Large-scale storage needs
• Large-scale Computational resources

Data analysis in the era of FRIB

Should there be a permanent subcommittee about this?

• Are there general concepts, problems, issues in data analysis that benefit from community-wide collaboration?
• Specialized workshops planned by collaborations, e.g. TPC software workshop, GRETINA signal decomposition workshop
• Frameworks : Are ROOT and SpecTCL sufficient?
• What are the cross-cutting requirements and tools for analysis?
  • Parallel processing
  • Data storage and retrieval
  • Online and Offline processing
• How to make analysis efficient -
  • Using distributed resources
  • Using commercial resources, e.g. Amazon Web Services
• Data Security concerns
  • Policy concerns about moving data off-site
  • US DOE, NSF Policy on public sharing of data

Connections with the Nuclear Electronics Industry

• SBIR topics: What we can expect from SBIR, what we have suggested
• Planning by vendors; Recommendations to vendors/reps

Community contributed presentations

Contributions are welcome