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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks Brian, </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This sounds a lot better. It will also be good to have some feeling how much labor will be involved to adjust the program to the new operating system with the new support modules, assuming they work well. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I will ask Eugene about the money for the controller. I am not sure we are allowed at this time to buy expensive items that are not needed immediately. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hovanes. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:beng@jlab.org">Brian Eng</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, April 28, 2022 10:45 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:hovanes@jlab.org">Hovanes Egiyan</a>; <a href="mailto:halld-controls@jlab.org">halld-controls@jlab.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Halld-controls] Hall D controls meeting on Thursday, April 28, 2022</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Here's the roadmap regarding the Phar Lap end of life on the PXI controllers.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ni.com_content_dam_web_pdfs_phar-2Dlap-2Drt-2Deol-2Droadmap.pdf&d=DwMFaQ&c=CJqEzB1piLOyyvZjb8YUQw&r=eoxvZg5bS13rnpkn_Mg5S-6Hb4tuVfEALyexPhu9AdE&m=_kTgwdtHtl6nmJMmrwiOLv4E1xcfrOSkfB_UoFHVMuUH1pSjDQ3u8Gy2SJrUsbbb&s=GK53WQMYZzBUbWPG0-bGC2mToO1XETAQfQSujiykV-E&e=">https://www.ni.com/content/dam/web/pdfs/phar-lap-rt-eol-roadmap.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>The biggest issue is that they're removing hardware and software support from all the NI software and we can't stay at older versions of LabVIEW indefinitely.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Fortunately things have improved on the software front since the last time I looked at using Linux on the newest controller we have, it seems both EPICS and Ethernet/IP support has been added. I'll need to install the latest NI software to verify, but this seems promising.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I think we'll need to order a new controller as a spare even if we have to end up using the old OS as they're still available this year. In a quick search I can't seem to find the exact model that we have, but a similarly spec'd one is $8390 with a lead time of 2-3 months.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=694 height=2 style='width:7.2291in;height:.0208in' id="Horizontal_x0020_Line_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D85B15.F64C8380"><o:p></o:p></p><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='color:black'> Halld-controls <halld-controls-bounces@jlab.org> on behalf of Hovanes Egiyan <hovanes@jlab.org><br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 27, 2022 2:19 PM<br><b>To:</b> halld-controls@jlab.org <halld-controls@jlab.org><br><b>Subject:</b> [Halld-controls] Hall D controls meeting on Thursday, April 28, 2022</span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=xmsonormal>Hi,</p><p class=xmsonormal> </p><p class=xmsonormal>Let's have a Hall D controls meeting on Thursday, April 28 at 10:00am. </p><p class=xmsonormal>I posted the preliminary agenda on the wiki page:</p><p class=xmsonormal> </p><p class=xmsonormal><a href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Controls_Meeting_28-Apr-2022">https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Controls_Meeting_28-Apr-2022</a></p><p class=xmsonormal> </p><p class=xmsonormal>Feel free to add more discussion topics to the agenda.</p><p class=xmsonormal> </p><p class=xmsonormal>You will need to use Zoom for Government app to join the meeting. 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