Innovations in trigger and data acquisition systems for next-generation physics facilities

Understand

Data-intensive physics facilities are increasingly reliant on heterogeneous and large-scale data processing and computational systems in order to collect, distribute, process, filter, and analyze the ever increasing huge volumes of data being collected.

• Moreover, these tasks are often performed in hard real-time or quasi real-time processing pipelines that place extreme constraints on various parameters and design choices for those systems.
• Consequently, a large number and variety of challenges are faced to design, construct, and operate such facilities.
• This is especially true at the energy and intensity frontiers of particle physics where bandwidths of raw data can exceed 100 TB/s of heterogeneous, high-dimensional data sourced from 300M+ individual sensors.