OWG Meeting 12-Mar-2014

Location and Time

Room: CC F326-327

Time: 1:30pm-2:30pm

Remote Connection

ESNet: 8542553

(if problems, call phone in conference room: 757-269-6460)

Previous Meeting

• Previous Meeting (26-Feb-2014)

Agenda

• Announcements
• Major systems reports
  • Trigger
  • DAQ
  • Monitoring
  • Controls
• E-log logbooks
• Mantis Task Tracker

Minutes

Attendees: David L. (chair), Hovanes E., Eugene C., Vardan G., Graham H., Bryan M., Mark I., Yi Q., Dave A., Sergey F., Simon T., Alex S., Sean D., Curtis M., Beni Z., Dmitry R., Sergey P.

Announcements

Mark I. regarding DB re-organization:

• Not too much interest in modifying existing DB schemes
• Dropping efforts to reorganize for now

Trigger

• The FCAL North and South independent DAQ systems are now able to:
  • Use internal pulser for triggers
  • Use LED pulser
  • readout at ~10Hz level (full waveforms for all channels)
• The BCAL North and South are also independent DAQ systems
  • The south 6 crates are connected to the TS
  • Able to read out all South crates
  • We are short on optical transceivers (need 12 more for BCAL)
    • unclear when order will arrive
    • need 2 transceivers per crate so they can have TS controlled and TI controller DAQ systems wired up simultaneously (although they can't be run simultaneously)
• 8 TDs have been installed
• Currently in process of checking timing calibration of trigger distribution system
• Configuration file implementation nearly complete. Only a few things to finish, but other priorities have superseded completion of that project for the moment.
• Hai has finished implementing code needed for the cosmic trigger in the flash 250.
• SSPs are not yet connected

DAQ

• Sergey F.: Work has started on looking at overall organization of software directories and scripts
• CODA & Linux VME drivers are currently being developed and released independently
  • CODA uses svn
  • Linux VME drivers use GIT
  • DAQ group willing to discuss tying the release of versions of the two together
• CODA statistics are currently recorded to a file that Dmitry can (and does) read to store in DB

Next Meeting

Next meeting is scheduled for March 26th