16–19 Oct 2016
Copenhagen University
Europe/Copenhagen timezone

SwissFEL Beam Synchronous Data Acquisition - A Sneak peek under the hood

18 Oct 2016, 11:00
20m
Marble Hall (Copenhagen University)

Marble Hall

Copenhagen University

Thorvaldsensvej 40
Oral Contribution Contributions 4

Speaker

Mr Simon Gregor Ebner (Paul Scherrer Institute)

Description

A new Data Acquisition system is being developed and commissioned for the upcoming FEL at PSI. This system is based on several novel concepts and technologies, and it targets at immediate data availability and online processing. The system is capable of assembling an overall data view of the whole machine thanks to the distributed and scalable buffering back-end. Load on data sources is reduced by immediately streaming data as soon as it becomes available. The streaming technology used provides load balancing and fail-over by design. Data channels from various sources can be efficiently aggregated and combined into new data streams for immediate online monitoring, data analysis and processing. The system is dynamically configurable, various acquisition frequencies can be enabled and data can be kept for a defined time window. All data will be available and accessible enabling advanced pattern detection and correlation during acquisition time. Accessing the data in a code-agnostic way will also be possible through the same REST API that is used by the web-frontend. Furthermore, data can be automatically reduced, compressed and extracted for later studies and documentation.

Primary author

Mr Simon Gregor Ebner (Paul Scherrer Institute)

Co-authors

Babak Kalantari (Paul Scherrer Institute) Christof Zellweger (Paul Scherrer Institute) Fabian Märki (Paul Scherrer Institute) Helge Brands (Paul Scherrer Institute) Leonardo Sala (Paul Scherrer Insitute)

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