Schwemmer, Rainer Neufeld, Niko A 32 Terabit/s Data Acquisition from Mostly COTS Components IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 1747-1751 62 The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) data acquisition after 2019 will need to perform event-building at an aggregated band-width of 32 Tbit/s. Apart from the technological challenges described in various papers also at this conference, the key challenge is to come up with an architecture which minimises the cost, while providing a system which can be maintained by a small team for a long time and which scales well. In this paper we present the analyses we have been doing to minimise the cost, the R&D; topics we derived from that and how we combined all this into a coherent proposal which allows us to come up with a system which not only today fits the budgetary constraints of LHCb, but also will allow profiting from any main-stream technological development. We achieve this by aligning our system needs as much as possible to data-centre mass-market commercial of the shelf (COTS) products; by minimising the number of optical interconnects and by optimising the physical layout of the system. This system requires only one piece of custom-made hardware, and even this could, for a smaller setup be replaced by a commercially available item. We believe that the reasoning behind this design can be beneficial to any large, high-rate data acquisition system. eng data acquisition; high energy physics instrumentation computing; linear accelerators; optical interconnections; COTS components; Large Hadron Collider beauty data acquisition; high-rate data acquisition system; optical interconnects; Bandwidth; Buildings; Data acquisition; Detectors; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Servers; multiprocessor interconnection networks; network topology; next generation networking; real-time systems;; IEEE 2015

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