Difference between revisions of "Online Projects"

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Contact Elliott Wolin (wolin@jlab.org) for more details.

12GeV (High Priority) Projects Suitable for Outside Groups

• Event display
  • Fully develop online event display using bCNU, EVE or other framework.
  • estimate 22 man-weeks effort.
  • Status:
    • Have working (preliminary) version using bCNU framework (CNU students).
    • Have proof of concept using EVE (Dmitry).

• Event monitoring
  • Develop JANA framework for RootSpy-enabled online monitoring, collect detector histogram plugins from detector groups.
  • estimate 8 man-weeks effort.
  • Status:
    • Elliott W has plugin templates.
    • Northwestern Univ. interested.

• RootSpy Histogram archive/retrieval
  • Develop histogram archive/retrieval system for the RootSpy system.
  • estimate 5 man-weeks effort.
  • Status:
    • Prototype RootSpy system exists.
    • Northwestern University interested.

• Process monitoring
  • Develop process monitoring system.
  • estimate 4 man-weeks effort.
  • Status:
    • Have example from CLAS.

• Hardware monitoring
  • Develop computer hardware monitoring system.
  • estimate 6 man-weeks effort.
  • Status:
    • Vardan has many ideas.

• EPICS gui's using Control System Studio
  • Develop many EPICS gui's.
  • estimate 8 man-weeks effort.
  • Status:
    • A few developed by Hovanes, Nerses, Vanik and Beni.

• SNS EPICS alarm system (BEAST)
  • Test and make recommendation for implementation.
  • estimate 4 man-weeks effort.
  • Status:

• SCONS ("make" replacement)
  • Develop online build system using SCONS.
  • estimate 4 man-weeks effort.
  • Status:
    • Start with Maurizio's system for CLAS12.

12GeV (High Priority) Projects Suitable for Local Groups

• Computer monitoring/alarm system
  • Learn about Ganglia, NAGIOS and similar systems, choose one and implement.
  • estimate 4 man-weeks effort
  • Status:
    • Paul Letta will probably do this.

• Conditions database
  • Develop conditions database.
  • estimate 4 man-weeks effort
  • Status:
    • Mark has design, Dmitry will probably implement this.

• Farm manager CODA component
  • Develop CODA component capable of managing monitoring of level 3 farm system.
  • estimate 7 man-weeks effort
  • Status:
    • Vardan will probably do this.

• Front end readout lists
  • Develop a generic readout list scheme capable of detecting which boards are in a crate and reading them out efficiently.
  • Must implement only those boards listed in operator-chosen trigger configuration.
  • Must also document configuration in Hall D database.
  • estimate 6 man-week effort.
  • Status:
    • Bryan developed crate scan software.

• Alarm system
  • Implement experiment alarm system based on recommendations (earlier task).
  • estimate 8 man-weeks effort.
  • Status:
    • Current best choice seems to be BEAST from SNS.

• Run bookkeeping scripts
  • Develop scripts to store pre- and post-run information in online databases.
  • estimate 4 man-week effort
  • Status:
    • Most if not all can be stored in the to-be-developed conditions database.

• Out of band events
  • Develop server to insert out-of-band events into the event stream.
  • estimate 6 man-week effort.
  • Status:
    • Same idea as was done for CLAS.

• Translation table
  • Implement translation table in JANA.
  • estimate 3 man-week effort
  • Status:
    • Prototype translation table exists.

Other (Low Priority) Projects Suitable for Outside Groups

• Remote monitoring of experiment
  • Develop system to allow remote monitoring of histograms, EPICS data, etc.
  • May be different mechanism for EPICS data, hist, etc.
  • estimate 12 man-weeks effort.
  • Status:

• Info Server for generic information storage and retreival
  • Investigate and define role for generic cMsg-based info server (a la CLAS), implement if useful.
  • estimate 2 man-weeks effort design, 6 man-weeks implement.
  • Status:

• Level 3 algorithm
  • Develop L3 rejection algorithm for use in JANA online framework.
  • estimate 26 man-weeks effort.
  • Status:
    • MIT group is interested and has experience from LHCb.

• RootSpy development
  • Further develop RootSpy package, including mini-HBook feature.
  • estimate 6 man-weeks effort.
  • Status:
    • See Dave L's note for suggested improvements.
    • Summer student worked on mini-HBook.
    • Northwestern Univ. interested.

Other (Low Priority) Projects Suitable for Local Groups

• Top-level experiment control control system and gui
  • Develop top-level experiment control configuration and associated gui.
  • Combines run control and slow controls into one interface.
  • estimate 6 man-week effort.
  • Status:
    • Vardan best suited to do this, not needed unti after 2015.

• Event stream reorderer
  • Develop code to reorder events after monitoring or level 3 farm.
  • estimate 4 man-week effort.
  • Status:
    • Not sure this is needed.

In progress

• Event disentangler
  • Develop Hall D specific event disentangler capable of handling full luminosity.
  • Determine where it should run (ROC, EB, both?).
  • estimate 6 man-week effort.
  • Status:
    • Carl best choice, he's done some work on this already.