OWG Meeting 11-Sep-2013

Agenda

• *** Turn on conference equipment ***
• Announcements
  • Must be done by 3pm to accommodate another meeting in the same room
• Review of minutes from 14-Aug-2013 meeting
• Collaboration Agenda
• Online data challenge update - Dave L
• Next data challenge - Dave L, Elliott
• Farm Manager - Vardan, Dave L, Elliott
• Networking update - Elliott
• Status of DAQ testing and development - Dave A, Mark D
• Counting House update - Elliott
• JInventory database update - Serguei P.
• Solenoid test update - Elliott
• EPICS update - Nerses, Vanik
• Controls update - Elliott
• DAQ group project status - Bryan, Dave A, Graham, Carl, Vardan
  • EVIO, cMsg, CODA3, ECS/CSS, disentangler, readout list, Java/cMsg GUI
• Electronics, trigger and DAQ status reports - Chris, Alex, Dave, Fernando, Ben, Ed, William, Bryan
• Mantis Task Tracker
• Midas Elog

• Upcoming topics
  • Translation table
  • raw data, compressed vs uncompressed
  • Calibration/Alignment issues?
  • Status of processing uncompressed and compressed simulated raw data and monitoring/L3 farm - Dave L, Elliott
  • What online projects can other groups take over? - Elliott
  • Status and schedule of Hall D projects proposed to be done by DAQ group - Graham
    • Linux SBC configuration, installation, booting - by Bryan
    • InfiniBand hardware specification, purchase, installation - by Dave A
    • Farm manager CODA component - by Vardan
  • Ed to talk more on FPGA programming

Time/Location

1:30 PM Wed 11-Sep-2013 CC F326

Next Meeting

Not for a while, I'll be out of town and the collaboration meeting is coming up!

Minutes

Present: Elliott W, Dave L, William G, Beni Z, Sean D, Justin S, Curtis M, Vardan G, Carl T, Yi Q.

Online Data Challenge

• Dave, Sean and Elliott are working on a draft report, should be ready by collaboration meeting.
• Report will be part of software review in Nov.
• L3 crashes still being investigated, Dave is working on logging facility to capture error output from L3 processes.
• Some improvements to build system implemented.
• Experienced an hdops account "hijack" when .cshrc file got inadvertently superceded by .tcshrc!
• Paul is looking into actual achieved rates to silo.
• Next data challenge will start at ROC level.

Farm Manager

• Vardan will create this.
• Farm processes will use codaObject library to implement communication with farm manager.
• Farm manager will be coda component, farm processes will not.
• Supervisor agent state machine needs to be defined, including error states.
• Will use kill/restart model instead of prestart/go/end.
• How to end run problematic.

Computers and Networks

• Computers should be ready by end of Oct.
• Networks need fiber installation contract, plans in place for interim networking.
• Need system software configuration and update strategy.

DAQ