Minutes of DAQ/Online Calibration Meeting 02/04/00
Meeting Held Friday, February 4, 9:00 am, B0 Theater
Minutes of last meeting Jack/Cranshaw/Rick St. Denis 5
(see below for corrections so far)
Follow up from last meeting
News
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Rick outlined a few outstanding issues and responses are indicated:
o Changes in scripting
Jim said that they have an initial plan and are thinking about it
o Communication back to DAQ from Consumers
Jim said that Kaori is going to talk about that when she gets
off cabling shift
o The 1260 COT words
see below under the COT/Muon discussion
Round Table (5 minutes each) - names not confirmed.
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SVX: Steve Nahn
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Igor Steve and Maurice exchanged a number of emails concerning calibration.
Steve said there are a couple of suggestions to be implemented and that much
overlapped with his own discussions with Bob Ely. They need a slightly
different algorithm to handle pedestals with value of -2 when dynamic pedestal
subtraction is used.
The discussion also included the level of correction -- the one to two count
level is difficult online and the question remains whether it is needed
offline. Steve has asked for MC studies (in a general way, no one assigned)
for what is relevant for tracking resolution. He would like to see some
simulation.
It was pointed out that information in consumers about cell number and beam
crossing are missing but Stan Thompson is working with Rick Snider to solve
this.
The cables are ready to go soon.
Steve was really worried about changing the layer numbering to reflect the
inclusion of layer 00. Note: in the tracking meeting it was decided not
to change the raw data format that includes an HDI bit and a L00 as well as
ISL bit. Thus, the bit means HDI, but for SvxII, it means SvxLayer. There
will always be some confusion because so many people are used to the layer
0-4 numbering in SvxII.
Steve got 39 fibs plugged in, but ran out of cables at 36. He has 12 DEM's
for use in testing. FIBS are on the 2nd floor and need to go to the assembly
hall on the time scale of "early spring". Cables coming soon.
Steve got x-mode working: Has the pedestals from the DEM. It takes 5ms/event.
Soon to come: Software event builder, Hardware restructured.
There is no way to ship the x-mode just now. need an x-mode bank definition.
COT/Muon: Ashutosh Kotwal
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Email:
I have informed Kevin Burkett of our decision to
apply the 1260 numbers to the calib data in the consumer, and store the
final t0 in the database.
Database: Jack Cranshaw
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There is now code in the offline packages for SVX, COT and Calorimeter.
Dennis is fixing some bugs in the API. They were introduced when some changes
were made, so Dennis will also implement the "make test" procedures.
Access Methods: Rick Vidal
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The Sun was shipped the day before the meeting. Setup is coming
in the next week. We need to decide what to do with it.
Rick defines
Production database:- Data we want to save
There is also a concept of a stable data schema but data that are not
final
Finally there is unstable schema.
The categories of Production, Integration and Development exist.
The development database will stay for now on B0DAU30
There are headaches in keeping the schema up to date on these various
databases.
The code is coupled to the database as well. So we need to keep the database
in march with the offline code as well.
Calorimeter/DBana: Vaia Papadimitriou
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o Success with hardware database!
o Not able to look at detector because it is not possible to put things
into the database. This is true since the end of last week. Something
happened in the framework that the code does not recognize the old edm.
The Calib manager is having a problem.
o Tried pedestals. changed QIE to do CEMP too. Working in xmode, but fails
and also connected with edm1/2 problems.
o Abandoning Hardware event builder for now -- can get a run number from
Software event builder now.
CLC: Alexei Safonov
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Absent
Consumer: Kaori Maeshima
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Kaori was absent for cabling, but sent the following Email contribution:
There is a consumer web page (linked from "cdf upgrade page" via "online
daq") linked to consumer-framework and consumers.
http://home.fnal.gov/~maeshima/consumer/consumer/consumer_home.html
Please take a look and send us your comments.
Also if you have a web page started with your consumer, please
let me know. I like to link it from the consumers' page.
We have a consumer template, description of 'how to get started', etc
in the consumer-framework page. Also, very shortly, there will be
a single script available which makes easy to get a new monitor module
started.
(it exists, and is in an experimental stage right now).
We modified the consumer template program last week and updated in cvs.
Changes include: some clean up (mainly clean up to do with the old edm),
changes to follow cdf code convention, modification to allow more flexibility
for the analsys, etc....
Information how to access and run the consumer example code are on
in the consumer framework web page.
Any feed-back to us are quite welcome.
ShowerMax: Steve Kuhlmann
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Had contacted Jack and was ready to start coding
Presentations
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CalibConsumer Base Class
Progress Jack Cranshaw 10
Common dbana-consumer code Jack Cranshaw 5
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Olga looked at the COT and CAL consumers. She is using commonalities in code
to condense work to fewer methods. She is working on an intermediate class.