Possible Meeting Topics

(Note...if you suggest a topic put your name in parenthesis at the end so I can contact you...EJW)

Trigger and Electronics

• New simulation and study of energy sum trigger - Dave D, new group from China, Alex S, Eugene C.
• Status of event size study - Elliott W, David L, Fernando B, Alex S, Eugene C.
• Status of timing and trigger distribution hardware development - Chris C.
• Progress on front-end drivers - Dave A.
• Full trigger design - Chinese group, Chris C.
• New TI card, timing and trigger distribution, etc. - Ed J.
• Front-end trigger bits - how many are possible, and what will we use them for - Ed J.

Controls

• Alarm system - EJW
• Operator environment - EJW
• MonAlisa for SCADA layer - EJW
• Intro to SNMP - Vardan G.
• Report on controls test stand - Vardan G, EJW
• DCS, SCADA, and ECS layers - EJW

DAQ Software

• ROC status - Dave A.
• EMU status - Graham H.
• Level 3 farm architecture - Graham H.
• Coda object framework - EJW
• Run Control - Vardan G.
• cMsg communications system - Carl T. and EJW
• ET distribution system - Carl T.

Other Software

• BOOST and new C++ standard - EJW
• JANA/DANA for online monitoring and level 3 farm - David L.
• Relationship between online and offline code development efforts - David L and EJW
• Online code management: Make vs Scons - ???
• Online logbook requirements and review of existing packages - do we need to write our own? - ???
• Bug tracking system: integrated into elog, Mantis, something else? - ???

Misc

• Role of other JLab groups: computer center, scientific computing group, accelerator, etc. - by Andy, Chip, etc.
• Report from Hall B - Serguei Boiarinov