OWG Meeting 27-Apr-2011

Agenda

• Announcements
  • New controls meeting Thurs 9:30am, mail list "halld-controls", and Controls wiki page
• Review of minutes from 30-Mar-2011 meeting

• Counting house UPS and Telecom - Elliott
  • VOIP only, use fibers instead of copper to connect to telecom room
  • UPS outlets in hall, telecom room
  • what to connect, how long will it run, when to use portable UPS's?

• P3E Online tasks - Elliott
  • Possible tasks for DAQ group and others
    • self-configuring readout list with database storage of crate configuration
    • farm manager CODA component
    • top-level AFECS experiment control supervisor and GUI
    • CLARA-enable DANA framework
    • convert Hall D facilities into CLARA services
    • readout/control libraries for Hall D specific modules (do we have any?)
    • implement EPICS driver using ASYN framework, e.g. for Anagate CAN gateway (Nerses?)
    • implement EPICS JavaIOC and driver using Port Driver framework (Nerses?)
    • design and prototype conditions database (Dmitry?)
    • other tasks that do not need DAQ expertise, just good programming skills
  • list of tasks and outside group expertise
  • Excel spreadsheet
  • Mantis tasks

• Online database strategy - Mark, Dave, Elliott
  • unlike calibration database, conditions database needs many searchable columns
  • should it be run-based or time-based?
  • should we use MySql replication or clustering?
  • how to interoperate with other databases, esp. EPICS archiver database, elog, etc?
  • Proposal for an online conditions database

• Coil test update - Elliott, Yi
  • schedule
  • VME fast DAQ system
  • Auxiliary tests

• Other Tests - Chris, Beni
  • Multi-crate trigger test
  • FDC cosmic ray test

• Controlling CAN systems - Elliott, Hovanes
  • FCAL bases - Anagate gateway
  • c-based IOC, JavaIOC, PCAS, ASYN framework, separate controller task?

• Raw event format - Dave, Carl
• Event display - Elliott, Andrew
• Java coda object framework - Elliott
• Controls test station - Elliott, Hovanes
• Electronics, trigger and DAQ status reports - Chris, Alex, Dave, Fernando, Ben, Ed, William, Bryan
• Mantis Task Tracker
• wallet card

Time/Location

1:30 PM Wed 27-Apr-2011 CC F326

Next Meeting

1:30 PM Wed 25-May-2011 CC F326

Skipping a meeting due to collaboration meeting