DAQ Coordination Meeting

Monday 10 Jun 2024, 08:00 → 09:30 America/Chicago

 https://fnal.zoom.us/j/369714575

08:00 → 08:05 General news

Speakers: Alessandro Thea (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Asher Kaboth (RHUL), Roland Sipos (CERN)

08:05 → 08:20 Actions from previous meetings

Speakers: Alessandro Thea (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Asher Kaboth (RHUL), Roland Sipos (CERN), Wesley Ketchum (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

08:20 → 08:30 Run Coordination news

Speaker: Wesley Ketchum (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

• EHN1 activities (in some version of priority for readiness for beam next week)
  • Configuration management
    • Creating SSH+K8s configs together
      • Scripts from Tiago available, starting to integrate now into 'cleaner' management of configs
    • Providing cleaner management of configs for shifters / experts to create
      • Wes working on now
  • Performance at higher trigger rates
    • Kernel isolation on readout servers
      • Matthew Man and performance team looking into this
    • Use of new storage server / understanding network bandwidth and performance limitations
      • Should revisit once kernel isolation pieces complete
    • Tuning of timeouts / operational parameters, trigger config
      • Wes to work on this later this week, targeting some '12 hour' data challenge toward end of week
      • Likely need to tune TPG to not interfere with beam triggering.
  • DQM for shifters
    • Script to transfer data to rscratch 'analysis' location
      • PDS group took interest, may be working on this in coming days
    • automated analysis scripts
    • automated plotting scripts
  • Timing commands as triggers for PDS calibration on APA1
    • Dennis and Diana working on this ... supporting as I can from remote
  • Operations preparation
    • Expert training and documentation
      • Wes aiming for expert training at CERN for Thursday morning
    • Configurations for the beam trigger
      • Work with Penn team early next week as part of beam commissioning
    • Shifter documentation review and DAQ checklist
      • Wes started this for some things, will be trying to roll something out by Wednesday
  • CRT readout
    • Still in need of serious debugging

08:30 → 08:45 Working groups round table

Speakers: Adam Barcock (UKRI STFC), Alec Habig (Univ. of Minnesota Duluth), Alexander Tapper (Imperial College London), Artur Sztuc (University College London), Bonnie King (FNAL), David Cussans (University of Bristol), Jonathan Hays (Queen Mary University of London), Joshua Klein, Kurt Biery (Fermilab), Pierre Lasorak (Imperial College London), Roland Sipos (CERN), Stoyan Trilov, Wesley Ketchum (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

2024_06_10_readout_daq_ct.txt

CCM_update_240610.txt

08:45 → 09:00 Activity coordination round table

Release coordination
Iceberg
ND test setups
EHN1 integration
SW coordination

Speakers: Bonnie King (FNAL), John Freeman, Kurt Biery (Fermilab), Patrick Dunne (Imperial College London), Wesley Ketchum (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

John, Software Coordination:
 

• Wrapping up the fddaq-v4.4.2 release today (i.e., the work that comes after getting the builds on cvmfs). Release-wide tags are in; documentation needs to be released, merges into production/v4 will be done given the go-ahead, and "setup_dbt fddaq-v4.4.2" will get aliased to "setup_dbt latest_v4" (itself an alias to "setup_dbt v8.3.0").
• The first ever public Software Coordination meeting will be held this Thursday at 9:30. I'll send out an official email. 

09:00 → 09:05 Actions