The ATLAS Multi-threaded Trigger Selection Framework

13 Jul 2021, 14:30
15m
Track E (Zoom)

Track E

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talk Computation, Machine Learning, and AI Computation, Machine Learning, and AI

Speaker

Werner Wiedenmann (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

Description

Athena is the software framework used in the ATLAS experiment throughout the data processing path, from the software trigger system through offline event reconstruction to physics analysis. The shift from high-power single-core CPUs to multi-core systems in the computing market means that the throughput capabilities of the framework have become limited by the available memory per process. For Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ATLAS has exploited a multi-process forking approach with the copy-on-write mechanism to reduce the memory use. To better match the increasing CPU core count and the, therefore, decreasing available memory per core, a multi-threaded framework, AthenaMT, has been designed and is now being implemented. The ATLAS High Level Trigger (HLT) system has been remodelled to fit the new framework and to rely on common solutions between online and offline software to a greater extent than in Run 2.

We present the implementation of the new HLT system within AthenaMT, which is being commissioned now for ATLAS data-taking during LHC Run 3.

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Primary author

Werner Wiedenmann (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

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