Among the many challenges presented by the future ATLAS detector at the LHC
are the high data taking rate and volume and the derivation of a rapid
trigger decision with limited resources. To address this challenge within
the ATLAS second level trigger system, a Region-of-Interest mechanism has
been adopted which dramatically reduces the relevant fiducial volume
necessary to be readout and processed to small regions guided by the
hardware-based first level trigger. Software has been developed to allow
fast translation between arbitrary geometric regions and identifiers of
small collections of the event data. This facilitates on-demand data
retrieval and collection building. The system is optimized to minimize the
amount of data transferred and unnecessary building of complex objects.
Details of the design and implementation are presented along with
preliminary performance results.
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