LinuxbasednetworkedPCsclustersarereplacingboththeVMEnonuniformdirectmemoryaccesssystemsandSMPsharedmemorysystemsusedpreviouslyfortheonlineeventfilteringandreconstrucion.ToallowanoptimaluseofthedistributedresourcesofPCclustersanopensoftwareframeworkispresentlybeingdevelopedbasedonadataflowparadigmforeventprocessing.Thisframeworkallowsforthedistributionofthedataofphysicseventsandassociatedcalibrationdatatomultiplecomputersfrommultipleinputsourcesforprocessingandthesubsequentcollectionoftheprocessedeventsatmultipleoutputs.Thebasisofthesystemistheeventrepository,basicallyafirst-infirst-outeventstorewhichmaybereadandwritteninamannersimilartosequentialfileaccess.Eventsarestoredinandtransferredbetweenrepositoriesassuitablylargesequencestoenablehighthroughput.Multiplereaderscanreadsimultaneouslyfromasinglerepositorytoreceiveeventsequencesandmultiplewriterscaninserteventsequencestoarepository,Hencerepositoriesareusedforeventdistributionandcollection.Tosupportsynchronisationoftheeventfolowtherepositoryimplementsbaaiers.Abarriermustbewrittenbyallthewritersofarepositorybeforeanyreadercanreadthebarrier,Areadermustreadabarrierbeforeitmayreceivedatafrombehindit.Onlyafterallreadershavereadthebarrieristhebarrieremovedfromtherepository.Abarriermayalsohaveattacheddata,Inthiswaycalibrationdatacanbedistributedtoallproessuingunits.Therepositoriesareimplementedasmulti-threadedCORBAobjectsinC++andCORMAisusedforalldatatransfers,JobsetupscriptsarewritteninpythonandinteractivestatusandhistogramdisplayisprovidedbyaJavaprogram.JobsrununderthePBSbatchsystemprovidingshareduseofresourcesforonlinetriggering,offlinemassreporcessinganduseranalysisjobs.
