Software and Computing

STAR Grid Activities

2009-01-29 13:00
2009-01-29 14:00
Etc/GMT-4
Thursday, 29 January 2009
1-189 and phone conference, at 18:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00
Site reports:
	-BNL
	-PDSF
	-WSU

EC2 / Virtualization status

KISTI/networking news
	-Network reshape status

OSG News and meeting reports


Phone / bridge information:
In the US, call 1-605-475-8500

Enter Conference Room Number : 5343115
Skype +99008275343115


-Wayne Betts

 

HOW-TO: compile RunLogDb daemon

  1. Login to root@onldb.starp.bnl.gov
  2. Copy latest "/online/production/database/Run_[N]/" directory contents to "/online/production/database/Run_[N+1]/"
  3. Grep eve

200901

Topics included

STAR Electronic Shiftlog (ESL) Administrator Manual

STAR Electronic Shiftlog (ESL) Administration guide

The STAR (ESL) Electronic Shiftlog is written in JSP (Java server pages) and requires a web server that can render JSP content.

Server list and various parameters

Here will be a server list (only those servers participating in various replication scenarios)

FUSE & SSHFS - Overview and example in STAR online environment

FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace)

Fixing Slave Replication In A STAR Offline Database Mirror

Mike's trick for fixing an offline database slave when it won't sync with the master is to be carried out as follows:

cd /var/run/mysqld

ls -lh | grep "mysqld-relay-bin"

2008 TOF Software review

2008-11-10 00:00
2008-11-10 18:00
Etc/GMT-5
Monday, 10 November 2008
2-78 / 510, at 05:00 (GMT), duration : 18:00

The review will take place on November the 10th and will be held in room 2-78 in Building 510 (Physics). For EVO booking - click here (short summary follows, EVO booking information (ICS, TXT)):

Title:        TOF Software review
Description:	2008 review of the STAR/TOF sub-system project.
Community:	STAR

Eastern Standard Time (-0500)
	Start	2008-11-10  09:00
	End  	2008-11-10  18:00

 

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00Closed session ( 00:10 ) 0 filesReview commitee (All)
09:10Introduction & TOF Event Structure ( 00:50 ) 1 fileXin Dong (LBNL)
10:00Online monitoring and Offline Reader ( 00:30 ) 1 fileJing Liu (Rice)
10:30Break ( 00:15 ) 0 files---
10:45Offline QA and calibration production chain ( 00:30 ) 0 filesXin Dong (LBNL)
11:15Offline calibration ( 01:00 ) 2 filesJing Liu / Zebo Tang (Rice / USTC)
12:15Lunch ( 01:45 ) 0 files---
14:00Physics production chain ( 00:30 ) 0 filesXin Dong (LBNL)
14:30TOF Geometry ( 00:30 ) 1 fileBill Llope (Rice)
15:00Simulation/embedding chain ( 00:30 ) 1 fileDylan Thein (UTA)
15:30Break ( 00:15 ) 0 files---
15:45PID strategy ( 00:20 ) 1 fileMasayuki Wada (UTA)
16:05DB tables ( 00:30 ) 0 filesXin Dong (LBNL)
16:35Offline analysis tools ( 00:20 ) 0 filesXin Dong (LBNL)
16:55VPD vertexing ( 00:20 ) 1 fileXiaoping Zhang (LBNL)
17:15Q&A ( 00:15 ) 0 files---
17:30Closed Committe Meeting ( 00:30 ) 0 files---

S&C Infrastructure Servers

 

2008 - EMC calibration workshop

The EMC calibration workshop was launched as with a start up Email to starmail on 9/4/2008 10:31. A copy resides below. The review report was requested to be delivered by October the 29th 2008.

2008 - TOF software review

The Time Of Flight sub-system was called for a software readiness and integration review in the Fall of 2008. The commitee's charges are available below in the related documents section.

Recommended settings for key nodes

The following set of recommendations applies to mission critical systems in use in STAR.

Run IX

General

This tree will contain information pertaining to run 9.

TPC Pt and DCA resolution

[Update on 2010-06-21: global track momentum resolution has now also been studied using Cosmic rays study, version 2, with some as yet unexplained good performance at very high pT

TPC performance

 Documentation on performance of the TPC
 

List of STAR Conduits

List of conduits

  • Grayed items are historical records

2008 documents

This page will have security related documents and policy previews.

The current list is:

Software and Computing phone meeting

2008-07-16 12:00
2008-07-16 13:00
Etc/GMT-5
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
1-189, HighSpeed conference bridge, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00
TimeTalkPresenter
12:00Overview of simulation opened requests ( 00:15 ) 0 filesVictor Perevoztchikov (BNL)
12:15SSD opened issues ( 00:20 ) 1 fileJonathan Bouchet (KSU)
12:35Database synchronization, problem, path forward ( 00:15 ) 1 fileMicheal DePhillips (BNL)
12:50Summary of production readiness ( 00:10 ) 0 filesAll (All)

2008-06-18

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Run 8 (200 GeV dAu and pp)