A Persistent Back-End for the ATLAS Online Information Service (P-BEAST)

This poster describes P-BEAST, a highly scalable, highly available and durable system for archiving monitoring information of the trigger and data acquisition (TDAQ) system of the ATLAS experiment. Currently this consists of 20,000 applications running on 2,400 interconnected computers but it is foreseen to grow further in the near future. P-BEAST stores considerable amounts of monitoring information which would otherwise be lost. Making this data accessible, facilitates long term analysis and faster debugging. The novelty of this research consists of using a modern key-value storage technology (Cassandra) to satisfy the large time series data rates, flexibility and scalability requirements entailed by the project. The loose schema allows the stored data to evolve seamlessly with the information flowing within the Information Service. An architectural overview of P-BEAST is presented together with a discussion on the arguments which ultimately lead to choosing Cassandra as the storage technology. Measurements taken during operation in production environment illustrate the data volume absorbed by the system

The ATLAS Trigger/DAQ Authorlist

This is the ATLAS Trigger/DAQ Authorlist, version 11.09 (September 28, 2011)

The ATLAS Trigger/DAQ Authorlist

This is the ATLAS Trigger/DAQ Authorlist, version 13.05 (May 30, 2013)

ATLAS

% ATLAS \\ \\ ATLAS is a general-purpose experiment for recording proton-proton collisions at LHC. The ATLAS collaboration consists of 144 participating institutions (June 1998) with more than 1750~physicists and engineers (700 from non-Member States). The detector design has been optimized to cover the largest possible range of LHC physics: searches for Higgs bosons and alternative schemes for the spontaneous symmetry-breaking mechanism; searches for supersymmetric particles, new gauge bosons, leptoquarks, and quark and lepton compositeness indicating extensions to the Standard Model and new physics beyond it; studies of the origin of CP violation via high-precision measurements of CP-violating B-decays; high-precision measurements of the third quark family such as the top-quark mass and decay properties, rare decays of B-hadrons, spectroscopy of rare B-hadrons, and $B ^0 _{s}$-mixing. \\ \\The ATLAS dectector, shown in the Figure includes an inner tracking detector inside a 2~T~solenoid providing an axial field, electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters outside the solenoid and in the forward regions, and barrel and end-cap air-core-toroid muon spectrometers. The precision measurements for photons, electrons, muons and hadrons, and identification of photons, electrons, muons, $\tau$-leptons and b-quark jets are performed over $| \eta |$ < 2.5. The complete hadronic energy measurement extends over $| \eta |$ < 4.7. \\ \\The inner tracking detector consists of straw drift tubes interleaved with transition radiators for robust pattern recognition and electron identification, and several layers of semiconductor strip and pixel detectors providing high-precision space points. \\ \\The e.m. calorimeter is a lead-Liquid Argon sampling calorimeter with an integrated preshower detector and a presampler layer immediately behind the cryostat wall for energy recovery. The end-cap hadronic calorimeters also use Liquid Argon technology, with copper absorber plates. The end-cap cryostats house the e.m., hadronic and forward calorimeters (tungsten-Liquid Argon sampling). The barrel hadronic calorimeter is an iron-scintillating tile sampling calorimeter with longitudinal tile geometry. \\ \\Air-core toroids are used for the muon spectrometer. Eight superconducting coils with warm voussoirs are used in the barrel region complemented with superconducting end-cap toroids in the forward regions. The toroids will be instrumented with Monitored Drift Tubes (Cathode Strip Chambers at large rapidity where there are high radiation levels). The muon trigger and second coordinate measurement for muon tracks are provide