OWG Meeting 11-Sep-2013
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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
Announcements
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- Experienced an hdops account "hijack" when .cshrc file got inadvertently superceded by .tcshrc!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