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<p>Folks,</p>
<p>Please find the notes below and at</p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_June_11,_2018">https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_June_11,_2018</a></p>
<p> -- Mark</p>
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<p>Present: Alexander Austregesilo, Eugene Chudakov (chair),
Mark Dalton, Alexandre Deur, Hovanes Egiyan, Mark Ito, David
Lawrence, Lubomir Pentchev, Patrizia Rossi, Elton Smith,
Sascha Somov, Simon Taylor, Tim Whitlatch, Beni Zihlmann
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<li> Announcements (Eugene)
<ul>
<li> Budget
<ul>
<li> Promised extra funds have not arrived, budget
is getting tight, new big items a problem right
now</li>
<li> We are spending 100 k$ on tapes this year</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Lubomir has been promoted. Congratulations Lubomir!</li>
<li> Open house: 3-5 k guests</li>
<li> Software Review scheduled for Nov. 27-28</li>
<li> GlueX II Readiness Review will be June 25
<ul>
<li> speakers: Tim, Justin, David</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Summer Activities
<ul>
<li> DIRC (Tim)
<ul>
<li> all bar boxes here, 2 installed already</li>
<li> optical box due mid-July</li>
<li> plan: system operational Aug. 24</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> CDC need not be removed (Beni, Lubomir)
<ul>
<li> apparent leak was a false reading from a mass
flow controller</li>
<li> CDC itself is nominally gas tight</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Counting House Computing Upgrade (David)
<ul>
<li> DAQ going to 40 gigabit ethernet</li>
<li> file server with 10 gigabit interface being
installed</li>
<li> suspect cables getting replaced, rack room cabling
getting rationalized</li>
<li> node location in racks getting rationalized as well</li>
<li> desktop nodes will be upgraded to RHEL7, local
disks will be wiped in the process</li>
<li> plan: system back up Wednesday</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Hall D Safety Walk-Through (Elton)
<ul>
<li> two students need it, scheduled for next week</li>
<li> if others are interested, contact Elton</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Run Documentation (Eugene, Beni, Elton)
<ul>
<li> RSAD: for Fall, same as Spring, for commissioning
period discussion needed</li>
<li> ESAD, Hall Operations, etc. for GlueX II needed
before review this month</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> J/ψ paper (Lubomir)
<ul>
<li> compiling results and systematics for old vs. new
analysis, 2016 vs. 2017 data</li>
<li> now at 30% level on normalization systematic error</li>
<li> plan to use future reconstruction launches with new
software for both 2016 and 2017 data</li>
<li> time scale: write paper Sep.-Nov.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Simulation Launch on OSG (Mark)
<ul>
<li> generation, detector simulation, and reconstruction</li>
<li> ~2500 jobs running now</li>
<li> should be at 1 billion events by end of week</li>
</ul>
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Mark Ito, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:marki@jlab.org">marki@jlab.org</a>, (757)269-5295
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