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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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          <ul>
            <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>
            </li>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Mark Ito, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:marki@jlab.org">marki@jlab.org</a>, (757)269-5295
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