[Halld-online] Online Meeting Minutes

[David Lawrence]

Hi All,

  Minutes from today’s Online Meeting can be found at the meeting page and copied below.

https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/OWG_Meeting_29-Jun-2016 <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/OWG_Meeting_29-Jun-2016>

Regards,
-David


Minutes[edit <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=OWG_Meeting_29-Jun-2016&action=edit&section=5>]

Attendees: David L., Simon T., Sergey F., Bryan M., Beni Z., Dave A., Vardan G., Naomi J., Sean D., William G., Carl T.
Announcements[edit <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=OWG_Meeting_29-Jun-2016&action=edit&section=6>]

/gluex disk filled earlier in week due to log files from FCAL. These have been growing since the FCAL was turned off due to error messages
Removing log files doesn't immediately free disk space due to snapshot maintaining hard links
Paul L. added some space to partition to get us through next several days until snapshot links are deleted
Problem may reoccur if someone doesn't remember to watch log files
May need more robust system for managing logs to ensure they don't overwrite disk. (David will discuss with Hovanes et al.)
DAQ[edit <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=OWG_Meeting_29-Jun-2016&action=edit&section=7>]

Crates are on, but new feature in ROL prevents DAQ from starting if pedestals in trigger related crates are not correct.
With HV/LV off, the pedestals in BCAL are not correct so error flag is set to prevent DAQ from starting
Sergey spoke with Alex S. and Alex will implement a configuration parameter that allows the feature to be disabled for special testing
In meantime, Sergey will disable in ROL for DAQ testing that doesn't require normal L1 trigger to be working properly
Front-end Firmware Status[edit <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=OWG_Meeting_29-Jun-2016&action=edit&section=8>]

Some crates have had firmware updated (e.g. 2 fADC250 crates) but not all
New firmware requires ROL be linked with corresponding library. Currently all ROCs use same ROL so using mixed firmware versions is ugly to implement.
Will ask Alex S. about accelerating schedule to get all crates updated so we can do full set of crates to test CODA 3.06
Some interest in getting new cosmic data
L3 Status[edit <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=OWG_Meeting_29-Jun-2016&action=edit&section=9>]

Dave shared some results presented at last L3 meeting. Specifically, that there appears to be an optimal configuration of parsing and processing threads when doing "parsing only"
AOT: Trigger Monitoring[edit <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=OWG_Meeting_29-Jun-2016&action=edit&section=10>]

Beni noted that the trigger monitor program he put together during the last run was limited in its ability to calculate trigger rates for pulser events that happen rarely since his program only sees a fraction of events
Several suggestions made on how this could be improved
Set up blocking ET station on monitoring ET system to force more (all?) events through trigger monitor
TS scalers already in sync events. Set up station to get only sync events
Send TS scalers to Jflux system and make them available via web browser.
Beni will consider these options

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