OWG meeting 12-Nov-2008

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Agenda

  • Announcements - room uncertain for the next few meetings
  • Review of minutes from 3-Oct-2008 meeting (29-Oct meeting was canceled)
  • Report from EPICS collaboration meeting (Padua) and PCaPAC conference (Ljubljana) - Elliott
  • Update on fiber test, electronics, trigger, DAQ, etc - Many people


Time/Location

Note different room

Wed 12-Nov-2008 1:30pm CC L207


Announcements

Next Meeting

26-Nov-2008 room TBD

(unless everyone is gone for Thanksgiving!)


New Action Items from this Meeting

Minutes

Attendees: Elliott W, Dave D, Chris C, Carl T, Dave A, Graham H, Dave L, Simon T, Fernando B, Alex S, Jim S.


Report from EPICS Collaboration Meeting and PCaPAC Conference

Elliott presented results from the two meetings plus pictures of Padua, Venice and Ljubljana. See slides for more details.

  • EPICS meeting included a two-day tutorial.




Progress Reports

  • Fiber test stand - Beni reported no DAQ problems since typo fixed in startup file a number of weeks ago.
  • Electronics
  • DAQ
    • Dave A reported on progress with the GE FANUC Core-Duo Intel-based VME single board computer. He recently received driver source from GE and can now customize the board to run any way he wants.
    • Graham reported EMU progress - EB now logs via cMsg, handles recovery better, and the ER is coming soon.
    • Vardan is almost done modifying AFECS to no longer use the external package JADE, i.e. all agent management software is written at JLab.