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C252

The HERA-B Database Management for Detector Configuration, Calibration, Alignment, Slow Control and Data Classification

Antonio Amorim1, Vasco Amaral2, Umberto Marconi3, Tome Pessegueiro2, Stefan Steinbeck4, Antonio Tome5, Vincenzo Vagnoni3, Helmut Wolters6
  1. DESY and LIP/ Univ. Lisboa
  2. LIP
  3. INFN Bologna
  4. Univ. of Hamburg
  5. LIP/Univ. Beira Interior
  6. LIP Coimbra / UCP

Speaker: Antonio Amorim

  The measurement of the CP violation angles at HERA-B, together with an acceptable event storage rate implies complex trigger processing and online reconstruction. The developed system broadcasts the configuration, calibration and alignment information simultaneously to large numbers of machines while simultaneously making it available through a tree of cache database servers. The online calibration and alignment processes store data on active servers, which propagate update messages notifying the event stream. The scheme for correlating event data and information in the databases accommodates several versions of offline reprocessing associated with improved calibration and alignment data. Offline access to the databases is achieved by a replication mechanism that isolates the online servers from the load fluctuations induced by offline processing. To avoid the presence of too many small objects in the slow-control databases, the system allows storage of changes in individual control data with time. Upon request, the history of sets of values is re-clustered on the database servers before it is sent to the clients. The system relies on the Berkeley DB (Sleepycat Soft), and includes a data definition layer (MIZZI) developed for the experiment while we implemented the associated client/server layers together with and object interface. We have set a database schema improving process, in close contact with the sub-detector experts, by making use of UML design. With an event rate that prevents the efficient use of event tag databases, and the runs extending for periods in which conditions can change, we have introduced, in the data quality databases, the concept of tagged data sets that are managed by a relational database system. After some prototyping projects, we have defined the performance requirements of the database GUI’s and are implementing the JAVA and TCL/Tk interfaces, optimizing the CPU intensive data manipulating methods using the C/C++ native interface.

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