PEP-14 data acquisition system

A real-time software system was developed for the VAX 11/780 which employs ten processes cooperating concurrently in the task of data acquisition and on-line analysis for the Free Quark Search experiment at the new colliding beam storage ring facility (PEP) located at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The system utilizes most of the resources available to the applications programer under VAX 11/780 VMS, including interprocess communication via mailbox, global event flag cluster, and mapped global section, and is written primarily in FORTRAN IV PLUS with time-critical portions in MACRO-11. A discussion of the system architecture, implementation, and performance is given. 6 figures, 1 table.