The Control Unit of the KM3NeT Data Acquisition System
Abstract
The KM3NeT Collaboration runs a multi-site neutrino observatory in the Mediterranean Sea. Water Cherenkov particle detectors, deep in the sea and far off the coasts of France and Italy, are already taking data while incremental construction progresses. Data Acquisition Control software is operating off-shore detectors as well as testing and qualification stations for their components. The software, named Control Unit, is highly modular. It can undergo upgrades and reconfiguration with the acquisition running. Interplay with the central database of the Collaboration is obtained in a way that allows for data taking even if Internet links fail. In order to simplify the management of computing resources in the long term, and to cope with possible hardware failures of one or more computers, the KM3NeT Control Unit software features a custom dynamic resource provisioning and failover technology, which is especially important for ensuring continuity in case of rare transient events in multi-messenger astronomy. The software architecture relies on ubiquitous tools and broadly adopted technologies and has been successfully tested on several operating systems.
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@article{arxiv.1910.00112,
title = {The Control Unit of the KM3NeT Data Acquisition System},
author = {S. Aiello and F. Ameli and M. Andre and G. Androulakis and M. Anghinolfi and G. Anton and M. Ardid and J. Aublin and C. Bagatelas and G. Barbarino and B. Baret and S. Basegmez du Pree and M. Bendahman and E. Berbee and A. M. van den Berg and V. Bertin and S. Biagi and A. Biagioni and M. Bissinger and J. Boumaaza and S. Bourret and M. Bouta and G. Bouvet and M. Bouwhuis and C. Bozza and H. Branzas and M. Bruchner and R. Bruijn and J. Brunner and E. Buis and R. Buompane and J. Busto and D. Calvo and A. Capone and S. Celli and M. Chabab and N. Chau and S. Cherubini and V. Chiarella and T. Chiarusi and M. Circella and R. Cocimano and J. A. B. Coelho and A. Coleiro and M. Colomer Molla and R. Coniglione and P. Coyle and A. Creusot and G. Cuttone and A. D'Onofrio and R. Dallier and M. De Palma and I. Di Palma and A. F. Díaz and D. Diego-Tortosa and C. Distefano and A. Domi and R. Donà and C. Donzaud and D. Dornic and M. Dörr and M. Durocher and T. Eberl and I. El Bojaddaini and H. Eljarrari and D. Elsaesser and A. Enzenhöfer and P. Fermani and G. Ferrara and M. D. Filipovic and A. Franco and L. A. Fusco and T. Gal and A. Garcia Soto and F. Garufi and L. Gialanella and E. Giorgio and S. R. Gozzini and R. Gracia and K. Graf and D. Grasso and T. Grégoire and G. Grella and D. Guderian and C. Guidi and S. Hallmann and H. Hamdaoui and H. van Haren and A. Heijboer and A. Hekalo and J. J. Hernández-Rey and J. Hofestädt and F. Huang and G. Illuminati and C. W. James and M. de Jong and P. de Jong and M. Kadler and P. Kalaczynski and O. Kalekin and U. F. Katz and N. R. Khan Chowdhury and F. van der Knaap and E. N. Koffeman and P. Kooijman and A. Kouchner and V. Kulikovskiy and R. Lahmann and G. Larosa and R. Le Breton and F. Leone and E. Leonora and G. Levi and M. Lincetto and A. Lonardo and F. Longhitano and D. Lopez-Coto and G. Maggi and J. Manczak and K. Mannheim and A. Margiotta and A. Marinelli and C. Markou and G. Martignac and L. Martin and J. A. Martínez-Mora and A. Martini and F. Marzaioli and S. Mazzou and R. Mele and K. W. Melis and P. Migliozzi and E. Migneco and P. Mijakowski and L. S. Miranda and C. M. Mollo and M. Morganti and M. Moser and A. Moussa and R. Muller and M. Musumeci and L. Nauta and S. Navas and C. A. Nicolau and C. Nielsen and B. O' Fearraigh and M. Organokov and A. Orlando and V. Panagopoulos and G. Papalashvili and R. Papaleo and C. Pastore and G. E. Pavalas and C. Pellegrino and M. Perrin-Terrin and P. Piattelli and C. Pieterse and K. Pikounis and O. Pisanti and C. Poirè and G. Polydefki and V. Popa and M. Post and T. Pradier and G. Puhlhofer and S. Pulvirenti and L. Quinn and F. Raffaelli and N. Randazzo and A. Rapicavoli and S. Razzaque and D. Real and S. Reck and J. Reubelt and G. Riccobene and M. Richer and L. Rigalleau and A. Rovelli and I. Salvadori and D. F. E. Samtleben and A. Sánchez Losa and M. Sanguineti and A. Santangelo and D. Santonocito and P. Sapienza and J. Schnabel and V. Sciacca and J. Seneca and I. Sgura and R. Shanidze and A. Sharma and F. Simeone and A. Sinopoulou and B. Spisso and M. Spurio and D. Stavropoulos and J. Steijger and S. M. Stellacci and B. Strandberg and D. Stransky and M. Taiuti and Y. Tayalati and E. Tenllado and T. Thakore and S. Tingay and E. Tzamariudaki and D. Tzanetatos and V. Van Elewyck and G. Vannoye and F. Versari and S. Viola and D. Vivolo and G. de Wasseige and J. Wilms and R. Wojaczynski and E. de Wolf and D. Zaborov and A. Zegarelli and J. D. Zornoza and J. Zúñiga},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.00112},
year = {2020}
}