OWG Meeting 19-Dec-2012

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Agenda

  • Announcements
    • Still need to arrange for Ed to talk more on FPGA programming
  • Review of minutes from 5-Dec-2012 meeting
  • Infiniband testing - Elliott
  • Farm manager - Vardan, Dave, Elliott
  • State of the Online - All
  • EPICS - Hovanes
  • Controls - Elliott, Hovanes
  • JInventory database - Elliott
  • DAQ group projects- Bryan, Dave A, Graham, Carl, Vardan, Elliott
    • CODA3, EVIO, cMsg, 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]]


  • Calibration/Alignment issues?


Time/Location

1:30 PM Wed 19-Dec-2012 CC F326


Announcements

Next Meeting

1:30 PM Wed 2-Jan-2013 CC F326


Minutes

Present: Elliott W, Dave L, Mark I, Bryan M, Carl T, Simon T, Hovanes E, Beni Z.


(Caveat: I am writing these minutes way after the fact. Despite having notes I likely will forget something...Elliott)


Infiniband Testing

See link above for full information, including some odd scaling behaviour. This work is ongoing.


Farm and Farm Manager

  • Will mc2coda conventions be implemented in the DAQ board FPGA's?
  • Need to tune TCP over IB, currently optimized for TCP over IP.
  • Need to speed up EVIO buffer I/O, implement stream functions in Java and C++.
  • Still plan that farm manager is a CODA component, farm processes NOT.
  • Current plan is to develop farm process using CodaObject framework.


Counting House

  • Have proposals for console and meeting room designs from Facilities Mgmt.
  • They will develop initial design and furniture specification.


EPICS

  • Hovanes is working on FADC and other scalers.
  • No showstoppers connecting PXI to EPICS.
  • Beni is struggling with CSS for FDC HV control, goal is to allow for dynamic GUI configuration.


JInventory

  • Hall A and other groups are interested.
  • May coordinate through Graham H.


DAQ

  • First order of ROCs should arrive early Jan, ~6 for us, larger number in May.
  • Full crate FADC250 acceptance tests in progress (Fernando).
  • FADC250 board tests ongoing in UMass.