Technical workshop on InfiniBand for Trigger/DAQ

Europe/Zurich
13/2-005 (CERN)

13/2-005

CERN

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Lorne Levinson (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)), Niko Neufeld (CERN)
Description
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.
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Participants
  • Monday 14 January
    • 1
      Welcome 13/2-005

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      Speaker: Niko Neufeld (CERN)
      Slides
    • Afternoon session 13/2-005

      13/2-005

      CERN

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      • 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
      • 5
        InfiniBand Protocol and layer
        Speaker: Benny Koren (Mellanox)
      • 6
        Q & A
    • 19:30
      Workshop Dinner Restaurant - Pizzeria de la Place

      Restaurant - Pizzeria de la Place

      286, rte de Meyrin Meyrin Switzerland

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

  • Tuesday 15 January
    • Morning session 13/2-005

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      • 7
        InfiniBand for the CBM DAQ
        Speaker: Dr Sergey Linev (GSI DARMSTADT)
        Slides
      • 8
        InifiniBand in CMS
        Speaker: Frans Meijers (CERN)
        Slides
      • 9
        Experience with IB and Ethernet from Mellanox
        Speaker: Andrea Petrucci (CERN)
        Slides
      • 10:15
        Break
      • 10
        InfiniBand on custom electronics - LHCb ideas
        Speaker: Niko Neufeld (CERN)
        Slides
      • 11
        InfiniBand SW stack and API
        Speaker: Benny Koren (Mellanox)
      • 12
        InfiniBand fabrics and topologies
        Speaker: Benny Koren (Mellanox)
    • 13:00
      Lunch 13/2-005

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    • 13
      One-on-one discussions with Mellanox 13/2-005

      13/2-005

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