NEWS:
Steve said the 'flying wire', which was run every an hour to measure beam
position, won't be running any more. This had been a pain for shift crews
and also source of inefficiency since they have to lower down the high
voltages for the COT and Muon system. Hopefully, we do not need this any
more.
He also mentioned that the font size of detector names at the 'CDFGbAlarms'
page needs to be reduced. When the page is reduced, the characters were
chopped off.
SYSTEM:
David said the connection between APACS and iFIX was locked up several times
during the last a few weeks on the CDFTEMP. He thinks it's due to the
anti-virus run activated remotely, which was running everyday since a month
ago. It shut down the pc 3 times completely and caused error for many more
times. JC mentioned that Vnodes also suffered similar symptoms (2 times).
Also the Gamma system failures and the errors at the Voltman might be
linked to the fact.
Since they occured around 2:00AM when the anti-virus run
was scheduled, it's most likely the culprit. Mark said there is
no way to lower priority of the execution. We will plea to the Computing
Division for a better way. For the time being we will be running it
during day time when the experts are available to monitor and recover from
failures.
ICLCLE:
Margherita said that systems: COT, PlugTemp, SVX, Cryo are in produciton
mode while MUON and clorimeters are still in development stage. The Randy
Herber's browser only dumps text. To figure out how to use graphics for
the database data, Mario Spezziga would be good person to consult since
he has some experience this problem with DBANA.
MUON:
Trigger Inhibit is working fine now. The new implementation of the heart beat
checking improved the HVMON performance quite a bit. He needs fine tunning
to complete.
PSM:
Marcin put in new iFIX pages which show power supply locations in the
collision hall. He is now working on the web pages which shows all the
channelsof power supplies for the calorimeters in one page, which was
requested by Mike Lidgren.
CCU:
Oleg said the CCU system is ready to be monitored at the control room.
There would be 6 more subsystems. The 3 systems: CSP, BSU, TSU use the CCU
controller. The other 3 systems: CSW, MSK, CSX use the PISABOX controller.
Heart beat checking for the systems will be about every 20 minutes. Magherita
will help him out for the installation.
CLC:
Andrea said that he is improving the softwares for CLC. He wants the CLC,
BSC, MNP systems to be controlled by the shift crews with CDFHVSummary page.
The standby mode can be set at around 20%.