[Halld-online] Online meeting Jan 29, 2014

[Chris Cuevas]

Hi,

The 12GeV Trigger meeting was started many years ago with the focus on how to solve trigger requirements for the new 12GeV experiment programs.(All halls) The weekly focus from a small group of EEs and DAQ scientists developed, and produced production hardware, custom firmware, and worked out nicely because the CODA folks were able to keep up with firmware iterations to maintain software libraries.

I am definitely not for more meetings, but I feel that the hall groups should continue regular online meetings, and the hardware/firmware issues of the DAQ/Trigger system will always need to be discussed.  In the near term, especially since the halld DAQ/Trigger system will go through it's initial commissioning phase, it may make sense to highlight issues at the regular ONLine meeting. Once the DAQ/Trigger system is commissioned and stable, then it would merely be a brief status report at the ONLine meeting groups to highlight performance or prioritize critical issues.

I'm delighted to report that the list of topics at the 12GeV Trigger meeting getting smaller because we are very close to fully deploying the new production hardware/firmware, but we will continue to meet periodically to keep track of new requests from all the hall experiments and other groups at the lab.

Regards,
-Chris
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Ito" <marki at jlab.org>
To: halld-online at jlab.org
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 8:21:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Halld-online] Online meeting Jan 29, 2014

I agree that one more Wednesday online meeting is probably a good idea.

On 01/24/2014 11:07 AM, David Lawrence wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
>     I understand what you are saying. I do have a concern though that the communication between
>   the various groups (trigger, DAQ, controls, monitoring) will deteriorate if we do
> decide to give up on the big picture meeting and retreat to small groups with little
> overlap in the people attending them. The bi-weekly collaboration meeting is OK for quick status
> reports, but not appropriate if there is a need for any real discussion.  Breaking things
> apart necessarily creates cracks into which things may fall.
>
>    I don’t want to waste anyone’s time. Let’s have a brief meeting on Wednesday and decide
> then how to move forward. If the Wednesday meeting needs to become something
> more specialized on say DAQ and online monitoring, then we can consider that.
> Perhaps you could also tell us why we need 3 trigger meetings ;)
>
> Regards,
> -David
>
>
> On Jan 24, 2014, at 10:35 AM, Alexander Somov <somov at jlab.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't think that we'll need a global online meeting
>> anymore. At the meeting we had before we were not able
>> to cover all sub-group details (meetings were long and
>> not much helpful for me at least). Status from sub-groups
>> is presented at the GlueX meeting anyway.
>>
>> We already have several sub-group meetings where
>> technical details are discussed, such as:
>>
>> slow control, 3 trigger meetings, data challenge.
>>
>> It would also make sense to have a local DAQ and Monitoring
>> meetings with experts who are working on these
>> projects.
>>
>> Meetings in small groups (where you discuss technical details)
>> are  usually much more efficient....
>>
>> Cheers,
>>         Alex
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 24 Jan 2014, David Lawrence wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Onliners,
>>>
>>> With the unfortunate and sudden departure of Elliott, several of his projects and responsibilities have been left orphaned and will need to be adopted by other people. We can discuss these and how to move forward at the regularly scheduled Online meeting on Wednesday next week. I have put up a wiki page with a preliminary agenda. If you have anything you'd like to report on or discuss please add it to the agenda or send it me and I'll add it.
>>>
>>> https://halldweb1.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/OWG_Meeting_29-Jan-2014
>>>
>>> Also note that I plan to connect ESnet but if anyone needs a different access method (e.g. SeeVough) let me know ahead of time.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> -David
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