White Rabbit Project

<p>White Rabbit is the name of a collaborative project including <a href="/facts/CERN/y1gwRchm">CERN</a>, <a href="/facts/GSI_Helmholtz_Centre_for_Heavy_Ion_Research/KeCJHKP0">GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research</a> and other partners from universities and industry to develop a fully deterministic <a href="/facts/Ethernet/nMfhU8tU">Ethernet</a>-based network for general purpose data transfer and sub-nanosecond accuracy <a href="/facts/Time_transfer/uFU4DKtJ">time transfer</a>. Its initial use was as a timing distribution network for control and data acquisition timing of the accelerator sites at CERN as well as in GSI's <a href="/facts/Facility_for_Antiproton_and_Ion_Research/XzduN4ys">Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research</a> (FAIR) project. The hardware designs as well as the source code are publicly available. The name of the project is a reference to the <a href="/facts/White_Rabbit/DWCacRAA">White Rabbit</a> appearing in <a href="/facts/Lewis_Carroll/UnDExrlu">Lewis Carroll</a>'s novel <i><a href="/facts/Alice%2527s_Adventures_in_Wonderland/xIcypuRd">Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</a></i>.
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White Rabbit Project