NEWS:
The shutdown schedule is still holding. The shutdown will end on Nov. 22nd.
The CPR upgrade work is on schedule. ISL and L00 are having some problems
with SRC.
TOF:
Daniele said the old TOF is replaced with a new computer. The new CAENET
card runs on PCI interface. Now the TOF program is running in Visual Basic
environment and much faster than before. He found a bug in the old code
which caused frequent crashes. This problem was known as 'midnight crash'.
It turned out a simple coding error on time difference calculation caused
freezing the computer around midnight. After upgrade it worked fine for 7
days before it froze again. One bad CAEN HV card caused it. He sent it out
for repair. He promised to write new instructions for shift crews before
his departure to Italy this week.
ICICLE:
The Solenoid 2 was upgraded some time ago. Margherita needs to rebuild the
ICICLE excutable soon.
PLUGTEMP:
David said he needs an Oracle Client to write the plug data into the
development area of the Oracle Database. Steve said he sent an e-mail to
Nelly for that. He said people at Brandeis need access previlege to look into
to plots remotely. If we can install VNC it would solve the problem.
CPR:
Mary said the monitoring displays at the CLC computer are not iFix based.
The software package currently used was only a test version and we need to
buy a full version to create CPR monitoring plots. Steve suggested that we
should switch over to iFix.
PSM:
Ben Whitehouse, a Tufts student just arrived at FNAL. He will take
over Dan Ryan's work on PSM. His first task is transfering the PSM files
from the old PC before upgrade starts.
HTRDATA:
Steve said a special computer for historical data, HTRDATA, was also upgraded
recently.