A Performance Analysis Plugin for DAQPIPE

In 2020 the Data Acquisition (DAQ) of the LHCb experiment will be updated to feature a trigger-free readout. This requires an event builder network consisting of about 500 nodes with a total network capacity of 4TBytes=s[1]. DAQPIPE (Data Acquisition Protocol Independent Performance Evaluator) is a tool to simulate and evaluate the performance of such a DAQ system. The current implementation of DAQPIPE only gives rough feedback about the event building rate. The aim of this 10-week summer student project was to implement network monitoring for a more detailed performance evaluation of dierent transport protocols and to spot potential bottlenecks.