OWG Meeting 22-Oct-2014

Location and Time

Room: CC F326-327

Time: 1:30pm-2:30pm

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Agenda

1. Announcements
2. Control room consoles
   • Control Room Station Assignments (Dave L.)
   • Proposal for console assignments (Hovanes)
3. Major systems reports
   • Trigger
   • DAQ
   • Monitoring
   • Controls
4. Mantis Task Tracker
5. Pedestal Discussion

Previous Meeting

• Previous Meeting (08-Oct-2014)

Minutes

Attendees

Sergey F., Simon T., Alex B., Eric P., Beni Z., Bryan M., David L. (chair), Dave A., Will M., Michael S., Curtis M., Justin, Sean D., Hovanes, Mark D., Alex. S., Sergeui P., Aristeides T.

Announcments

• fADC125 firmware bug may be fixed. Cody and Beni are currently testing

Console assignments

Hovanes proposed a layout for what windows would appear on what consoles.

Trigger

• BCAL trigger tested (cosmic and self)
  • Still need threshold scans and rate studies
• FCAL trigger debugged last week
  • Some issues identified
    • Latency measurements bad on a couple of crates
  • Possible source of problem is CTP
• PS trigger is running using coincidences from left and right
• CTP scalers implemented in firmware
• ST cosmic self trigger working in stand-alone mode

DAQ

• System tested with “all” crates up to 27kHz but without VME readout
• Discussed Firmware versions
• RAID to tape tested.
• New tape volume is set up, but cron job not yet updated (will do today or tomorrow)

Monitoring

• Training done yesterday
• Monitoring plugins well under development
• Need to copy ROOT files to work disk for publishing to web
• RootSpy features being added and bugs fixed

Controls

• Tying up loose ends

 * profiler bugs
 * Nerses an Vanik are gone so emergency bug fixes will have to be done by Hovanes