<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div> Minutes from yesterday’s online meeting can be found at the following wiki page and copied below for convenience.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://halldweb1.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/OWG_Meeting_4-Nov-2015">https://halldweb1.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/OWG_Meeting_4-Nov-2015</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>-David</div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 24px; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.049999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Minutes">Minutes</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://halldweb1.jlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=OWG_Meeting_4-Nov-2015&action=edit§ion=5" title="Edit section: Minutes" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(90, 54, 150); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h1><div style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.049999237060547px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Attendees: David L. (chair), Simon T., Sergey F., Bryan M., Dave A., Curtis M., Sean D., Vardan G., Beni Z., Mark I.</div><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.049999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Cyber_Security">Cyber Security</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://halldweb1.jlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=OWG_Meeting_4-Nov-2015&action=edit§ion=6" title="Edit section: Cyber Security" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(90, 54, 150); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><ul style="line-height: 19.049999237060547px; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBQANAIAAAGOMnP///yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAAFAA0AAAIJjI+pu+APo4SpADs=); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">No news on network scans since cyber security team became under (wo)manned. </li></ul><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.049999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Gluon_work_disk.3F">Gluon work disk?</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://halldweb1.jlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=OWG_Meeting_4-Nov-2015&action=edit§ion=7" title="Edit section: Gluon work disk?" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(90, 54, 150); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><ul style="line-height: 19.049999237060547px; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBQANAIAAAGOMnP///yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAAFAA0AAAIJjI+pu+APo4SpADs=); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Following the recent filling of the home disk on gluonfs1, it was observed that this was due mainly to files that might otherwise live on a work disk. These were being placed in people's home directories.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">It was suggested that we install a dedicated work disk for these types of files. This would be a relatively cheap RAID disk that does not have snapshot backups.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">We do not want to use the existing RAID disks for DAQ to avoid potential resource contention while running and so we don't have to delete the contents while running</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dave will discuss with Eugene</li></ul><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.049999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Run_Preparations">Run Preparations</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://halldweb1.jlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=OWG_Meeting_4-Nov-2015&action=edit§ion=8" title="Edit section: Run Preparations" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(90, 54, 150); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><ul style="line-height: 19.049999237060547px; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBQANAIAAAGOMnP///yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAAFAA0AAAIJjI+pu+APo4SpADs=); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A new Run Period (2015-11) will be set up next week</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">RCDB<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBQANAIAAAGOMnP///yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAAFAA0AAAIJjI+pu+APo4SpADs=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dmitry R. will be coming on either Friday or Monday. Among other things, he will finish up deployment of RCDB</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sean may have some requests. He was advised to send them directly to Dmitry so that they could be incorporated into his overall work schedule during this visit.</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Beginning of Run (BOR) record<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBQANAIAAAGOMnP///yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAAFAA0AAAIJjI+pu+APo4SpADs=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">CODA 3.05 now supports a flag indicating a special event that the ER will maintain and write to the beginning of every file it opens</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">It is currently left to us (the users) to form this event and insert it into the data stream</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Writing another event with this flag will replace it in the ER.</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">fADC125 firmware has new data formats that need to be implemented in sim-recon parsing<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBQANAIAAAGOMnP///yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAAFAA0AAAIJjI+pu+APo4SpADs=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dave will contact Mike S. to make sure he hasn't started on this and, if not, will implement it</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i>sim-recon</i> has been updated on the CUE to the latest git version</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">cMsg server now started automatically on gluon46 for use with ROOTSpy<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBQANAIAAAGOMnP///yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAAFAA0AAAIJjI+pu+APo4SpADs=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">uses CODA 3.05 cMsg server</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">existing cMsg server on gluondb1 updated to also use CODA 3.05</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dave A. noted that newest cMsg server supports multicast so we could run server anywhere and clients could find it</li></ul></li></ul><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.049999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="DAQ_system_development">DAQ system development</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://halldweb1.jlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=OWG_Meeting_4-Nov-2015&action=edit§ion=9" title="Edit section: DAQ system development" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(90, 54, 150); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><ul style="line-height: 19.049999237060547px; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBQANAIAAAGOMnP///yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAAFAA0AAAIJjI+pu+APo4SpADs=); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sergey's contribution to GlueX performance document has been incorporated by Curtis.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">fADC125 has now been tested up to 32kHz using 5μs. Sergey believes it will be sufficient for any data taking this Fall</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">There was some discussion on using the BUSY signal from the module or preprogrammed holdoffs in the TS. Dave. A. was going to get together with Cody and Sergey offline to help debug the issue further.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">We are now running the TOF CAEN1290 TDC modules differently than before. The ROL has been modified to set additional registers needed for running in this mode. These settings need to be incorporated into Alex's configuration system.</li></ul><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.049999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="ROL_modifications">ROL modifications</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://halldweb1.jlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=OWG_Meeting_4-Nov-2015&action=edit§ion=10" title="Edit section: ROL modifications" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(90, 54, 150); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><ul style="line-height: 19.049999237060547px; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBQANAIAAAGOMnP///yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAAFAA0AAAIJjI+pu+APo4SpADs=); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Alex S. was not at the lab this week but conveyed to David just before he left that the SYNC event building was essentially complete, but he didn't want to install code as a default just before leaving town in case some issue comes up when others start to use it. This will be done once he returns.</li></ul><div><br></div></div></body></html>