NEWS:
The summer shutdown starts next Mondy, September 8 for 10 to 12 weeks.
It starts with brief power outage at 7 AM. The major efforts for the
MCS group is to replace 7 old PC's.
Steve showed transparancies on the iFix shutdown
plan.
PISABOX:
Irina said she now has a pc but somehow the Visual Studio was omitted during
the initial software installation.
ICICLE:
Margherita said the Gamma supplies were included in the Icicle since a few
weeks ago. During the shutdown, she will be working on the PSM and the Muon
Scintillators.
PSM:
Dan said he wanted to remind people that we could improve the problem of
a stuck bit at the muon chain. He calls for ideas for this. Steve said we
could split up the East and the West.
SVXIICON:
Andy said he needs a new video card for the monitor. Some of the upper
part of the screen is all jumbled. Also he concerned about the only spare of
Simens PLC not working.
CLC:
Mary Convery is replacing Andrea Bocci for the CLC. The CLC trigger inhibits
were fired during HV ramping and it irritates operators. Since the
CLC softwares were inherited from the PLUG softwares, most likely we can
fix it by adding a time out statement into the codes as we did for the PLUG.
VNODE:
JC is planning to install a new version of the heartbeat checking scheduler,
HB_scheduler_vnode.evs, during the shutdown. The new scheduler will have
only one timer by combining 13 timers. This will prevent any individual
timer failures from being unnoticed. He also hopes the new version is more
efficient than the old one.