OWG Meeting 31-Mar-2010
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Contents
Agenda
- Announcements
- CNU student
- Review of minutes from 17-Mar-2010 meeting
- Emerson visit - Dave A, Elliott
- cMsg and SSH tunnels - Carl T, David L, Elliott
- JANA/CLARA - Dave L
- DANAEVIO and EVIO improvements - Elliott
- Trigger test stand - Alex S
- Coil test update - Elliott, Yi
- Other electronics and trigger status reports - Fernando, Chris, Ben, Ed, Alex, Dave, William, Bryan
Time/Location
1:30 PM Wed 31-Mar-2010 CC F326
Announcements
Next Meeting
Tentative: 1:30 PM Wed 14-Apr-2010
New Action Items from this Meeting
Minutes
Attendees: Elliott W, Simon T, Beni Z, Dave A, Carl T, William G, Dave L, Bryan M, Yi Q, Alex S.
Emerson Technical Sales personnel visit
- Emerson purchased the division of Motorolla that supplied VME single board processors.
- They continue to design new PPC boards and have just introduced an Intel-based board (Core i7).
- All boards run Linux and VxWorks. The Intel-based boards can run Windows (sorry, Beni...).
- Dave Abbott wants to move everyone to Intel-based boards, although VxWorks will be around for a while.
- Dave will purchase Emerson, GE-Fanuc and other boards, test them, and make recommendations to the halls.
- Full order from JLab for 12 GeV will be large, perhaps as many as 150 boards (maybe more!).
- Order will involve staged delivery and payment, back-end loaded as much as possible.
- Hall D needs around 70 boards, maybe more for spares and test setups.
- Hall D owns two GE-Fanuc boards; one is at IU and Dave has the other (for software development).
- Embedded processors use less power, but are less powerful.
- Emerson expects seven year processor family lifetime from Intel.
- New boards have lots of on-board memory, can boot from local memory instead of network if desired.