Technical workshop on InfiniBand for Trigger/DAQ

14 Jan 2013, 14:00 → 15 Jan 2013, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

13/2-005 (CERN)

Lorne Levinson (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)), Niko Neufeld (CERN)

A technical workshop with experts from Mellanox targeted at understanding the potential of InfiniBand in HEP Trigger & DAQ systems.

Please register for the workshop (on left).

Workshop home page: https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=218156

The workshop will have presentations and discussions on:

• Introduction to Infiniband
• Status of Infiniband technology (including relative to Ethernet) and what's coming in the next 3 years
• The challenge of future DAQ systems
• Current plans or use of Infiniband for DAQ in CBM (@Fair), CMS, LHCb and ALICE
• InfinBand Technical topics:
  • InfinBand concepts and architectural details
  • Quality-of-Service, virtual lanes, and service levels
  • Flow control and congestion management
  • Software APIs
  • Network topologies and scalability in large systems, mixed IB and Ethernet systems
  • Network monitoring

There will be a workshop dinner Monday evening.

Blog http://thegeekinthecorner.wordpress.com/category/infiniband-verbs-rdma/

Paper Intro_to_IB_for_End_Users.pdf RDMA_Aware_Programming_user_manual.pdf

Poster 9_OFED_SW_stack.pdf

Slides Intro_to_InfiniBand.pdf

Monday 14 January

1 Welcome

Speaker: Niko Neufeld (CERN)

Slides introductionwelcome.pdf introductionwelcome.pptx

Afternoon session

2 Introduction

Speaker: Martin Roosen (Mellanox)

3 InfiniBand introduction

Speaker: Benny Koren (Mellanox)

15:00 Break

4 InfiniBand in ALICE HLT

Speaker: Timo Gunther Breitner (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

Slides IBinALICEHLT.pdf

5 InfiniBand Protocol and layer

Speaker: Benny Koren (Mellanox)

6 Q & A

19:30 Workshop Dinner

286, rte de Meyrin, Meyrin, Switzerland
Tramstop "Meyrin Village" - Tram #18

Tuesday 15 January

Morning session

7 InfiniBand for the CBM DAQ

Speaker: Dr Sergey Linev (GSI DARMSTADT)

Slides CBM-IB.pdf CBM-IB.ppt

8 InifiniBand in CMS

Speaker: Frans Meijers (CERN)

Slides fm-130115-ib-ws.pptx.pdf

9 Experience with IB and Ethernet from Mellanox

Speaker: Andrea Petrucci (CERN)

Slides 2013_01_15_AP-CMS.pdf

10:15 Break

10 InfiniBand on custom electronics - LHCb ideas

Speaker: Niko Neufeld (CERN)

Slides ib-lhcb-fpga.pdf ib-lhcb-fpga.pptx

11 InfiniBand SW stack and API

Speaker: Benny Koren (Mellanox)

12 InfiniBand fabrics and topologies

Speaker: Benny Koren (Mellanox)

13:00 Lunch

13 One-on-one discussions with Mellanox