Online Projects
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Projects Suitable for Outside Groups (in no particular order)
Contact Elliott Wolin (wolin@jlab.org) for more details.
- Event display
- Fully develop online event display using bCNU, EVE or other framework.
- estimate 26 man-weeks effort.
- Status:
- Have working (preliminary) version using bCNU framework (CNU students).
- Have proof of concept using EVE (Dmitry).
- 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:
- RootSpy
- Fully develop distributed Root histogram creation, viewing and archiving package.
- Need plugin, gui, gateway, aggregator, archiver, finish mini-HBook facility, etc.
- estimate 12 man-weeks effort.
- Status:
- Dave Lawrence wrote initial version.
- Have working prototype developed by students.
- 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 recommendations.
- 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.
- Info Server for generic information storage and retreival
- Investigate and define role for generic info server (as in CLAS), either based on cMsg or something else.
- estimate 4 man-weeks effort.
- 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.
Projects Suitable for Local Groups (in no particular order)
- Computer monitoring/alarm systems
- Learn about Ganglia, NAGIOS and similar systems, choose and implement one.
- estimate 4 man-weeks effort
- Status:
- Paul Letta will probably do this.
- Condidtions database
- Develop conditions database.
- estimate 6 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.
- Self-configuring front end readout list
- Develop readout list capable of detecting which boards are in a crate and reading them out efficiently.
- Must implement only those boards in operator-chosen trigger configuration.
- Should also document configuration in Hall D database.
- estimate 6 man-week effort.
- Status:
- Bryan developed crate scan software.
- 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 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.
- 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.