Investigation of the networking performance of remote real-time computing farms for ATLAS trigger DAQ

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2150-2155

  Caron, B ^a   Hughes Jones, R ^b   Korsyl, K ^c   Meirosu, C ^d,e   Neilsen, J L ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Protocols; Real time systems; TCP; Wide area networks

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA TRANSFER; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

REMOTE FARMS; STANDARD PRODUCTION NETWORK; TCP; VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 33748358172     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.878895     Document Type: Conference Paper

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