EVO: Title: STAR Management Meeting // Community:  STAR // Password:  star

                                                  Phone Bridge: +1 626 395 2112 (CA) / +1 631 344 6100 (NY) // ID: 82633 // Password: 0952

                                                                                                       Time:  9 - 10 AM EST

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I. Agenda:

             1) Run11 Status - Bill / All

             2) Run 11 shifts - Nu

             3) Goals for 200 GeV Au+Au collisions - Nu

             4) TBD

*--===================================================================--*

II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

              0) Attendency:

              1)    
            

III. Note:

► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu XU

► STAR FMS Review: Sept. 1-2, BNL. P. Jacobs (chair). Review Report

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IV. Future Meetings and Reviews:

► APS Spring Meeting, Anaheim, April 30 - May 3, 2011.

► STAR Collaboration Meeting, Prague, May 15 - 20, 2011. Chair: Jaroslav Bielcik.

► QM2011, Annecy, May 23 - 28, 2011. Deadline for abstract submission: April 18th, 2011.

► RHIC PAC meeting, June 6 - 8, 2011, BNL.

► RHIC S&T Review, June 27 - 30, 2011, BNL.

► PANIC2011, MIT, July 24 - 29, 2011.

                                                        EVO: Title: STAR Management Meeting // Community:  STAR // Password:  star

                                                  Phone Bridge: +1 626 395 2112 (CA) / +1 631 344 6100 (NY) // ID: 82633 // Password: 0952

                                                                                                       Time:  9 - 10 AM EST

 *--===================================================================--*

I. Agenda:

             1) Run11 Status - Bill / All

             2) Run11 shifts singnup - Nu

             3) HFT reviews - Flemming

             4) QM11 talks - Nu

             5) TBD

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II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

              0) Attendency: Olga, Jamie, Gene, Bendanga, Nu, Jerome, Helen, Bill,

              1) Shift singup:

              2) QM2011 talks: (a) suggested plenary talk list from STAR, end of this week;  (b) parallel talks, ~20, PWGc list will be 

                  be ready by the end of this week; (c) DK abstract, may be good submit as a few authors talk. Data has been shown

                  many times in conference proceedigns. Data is not new.

              3) Run11: CAD is tunning the beams, adjusting orbits, luminosity is low at STAR ... CAD is thinking about 18 GeV AuAu 

                  collisions.  Ask spin folks about what to do after 20 pb-1 has been collected with the FMS transverse pp.

III. Note:

► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu XU

► STAR FMS Review: Sept. 1-2, BNL. P. Jacobs (chair). Review Report

*--===================================================================--*

IV. Future Meetings and Reviews:

► DIS2011, Newport News, April 11 - 15, 2011.

► APS Spring Meeting, Anaheim, April 30 - May 3, 2011.

► STAR Collaboration Meeting, Prague, May 15 - 20, 2011. Chair: Jaroslav Bielcik.

► QM2011, Annecy, May 23 - 28, 2011. Deadline for abstract submission: April 8th, 2011.

► RHIC S&T Review, June 27 - 30, 2011, BNL.

► PANIC2011, MIT, July 24 - 29, 2011.

                                                           EVO: Title: STAR Management Meeting // Community:  STAR // Password:  star

                                                  Phone Bridge: +1 626 395 2112 (CA) / +1 631 344 6100 (NY) // ID: 82633 // Password: 0952

                                                                                                       Time:  9 - 10 AM EST

 *--===================================================================--*

I. Agenda:

             1) Run11 Status - Bill / All

             2) QM11 abstract status - Bedanga

             3) TBD

*--===================================================================--*

II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

              0) Attendency: Olga, Flemming, Jamie, Jerome, Bedanga, Nu, Gene

              1) Run11: STAR is ready for Au+Au. However, Steve wants to continue on pp 500 GeV longitudinal till ....

              2) QM2011: two additional QM plenary talks: i) Jets; ii) BES // Parallel abstracts: 1) Inform those who's abstract is ready.

                  So they can submit the abstract asap. 2) We will focus only on those abstracts that are not ready: a) Quadrupole

                 abstract: general consus from PWG is that it will be good if new pp data from STAR is included in the abstract.  We will

                  request the author to include STAR new data. b) Grouping of abstracts.

                  QM2011 Topics:                                   #                     STAR abstracts                   

            1) Electromagnetic probes                 --  2                   (dileptons)
              2) Jets                                                 --  4                   (jets)
              3) Heavy flavor and quarkonia production  --  5         (upsilon, NPE, J/Psi)
              4) Hadron thermodynamics and chemistry  --  3         (BES (pi,k, p), Strangeness, anti-He4)
              5) Global and collective dynamics     --  4                   (v2(BES h),v2(200),v1, UPC)
              6) Correlations and fluctuations          -- 3                   (HBT, K/pi fluc, LPV)
              7) QCD phase diagram                        -- 2                   (High moment, BES v2(pid))
              8) Pre-equilibrium and initial state physics   -- 1         (v3)
              9) Experiments upgrade, future facilities and instrumentations -- 2        (decdal, HFT/MTD,HLT)

                   TOTAL:                                                    -- 26

III. Note:

► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu XU

► STAR FMS Review: Sept. 1-2, BNL. P. Jacobs (chair). Review Report

*--===================================================================--*

IV. Future Meetings and Reviews:

► DIS2011, Newport News, April 11 - 15, 2011.

► APS Spring Meeting, Anaheim, April 30 - May 3, 2011.

► STAR Collaboration Meeting, Prague, May 15 - 20, 2011. Chair: Jaroslav Bielcik.

► QM2011, Annecy, May 23 - 28, 2011. Deadline for abstract submission: April 18th, 2011.

► RHIC PAC meeting, June 6 - 8, 2011, BNL.

► RHIC S&T Review, June 27 - 30, 2011, BNL.

► PANIC2011, MIT, July 24 - 29, 2011.

agenda:
 

a) Summary of Sunday's DY meeting

b) Kinematic simulation for RP acceptance (JH Lee)

c) R&D projects proposed for R&D calls

d) Discussion about March meetings:

    STAR upgrade (03/09)
    EIC meeting (03/10-03/11)
    STAR Analysis Meeting (talks)

e) increasing communications with EIC task force
    overlap in manpower and effort;
    participate in weekly EIC meeting;
    using physics Generator from EIC;
   

Minutes 

Attendees: Dmitry A., Wayne B., Leve H., Jérôme L., Gene V.B.

Online webserver:

• Went live on Monday
• No user complaints reported
• Jerome: identified and fixed several problems
• Jerome: started tomcat watcher script (he noted that it already caught a number of trips)
• Dmitry: though crontab had been copied, cron file entries had been missed
• Wayne: to-do list:
  • Install SSH key client
  • Install osiris
  • Tomcat log file rotation
  • ITD backups (noted as priority)
  • Synchronization with secondary new webserver

ShiftLog:

• 'thumbnailer' problem, Jerome is helping
• MTD subsystem added by Leve
  
  • Used the opportunity to move the array of subsystems to a single place

Online user support:

• sc.starp crashes (RT 2077)
  • Was repeatedly shutting down
  • Wayne: Box replaced (drive swapped), working fine...
  • ...but suspicion is UPS, battery replaced
  • Leave as is for now
  • Dmitry suggested providing Corba libs on online linux pool nodes to allow users an alternative to sc (Gene spoke with Jan B. about this post-meeting: Brian P. will try migrating his code)
• Two online disks (noted by Wayne in previous meetings): still need replacement
• QtRoot Event Display (RT 2075): Jerome notes it is low priority for now
• HPSS access from online via data carousel: Jerome indicates work in progress for authentication (perhaps try replicating what was done with stargrid04)
• starutilities replacement: extension through Jan. 30th.
  
  • trying to run C-AD software in XP mode on new box (Matt working with ITD today)
  • next possibility is dedicated XP machine
  • otherwise suggest software upgrade to C-AD (would require additional extension for procurement and delivery duration)
• rts01 replacement machine (RT 2070): machine has arrived
• Request for help restoring old FTPC event builders (RT 2066):
  • Wayne attempted to resurrect old builders but didn't succeed
  • Jeff has alternatives to move on
• Conference room PC display configuration improved by Wayne, but may still be not optimal
• FMS/Spin request for replacement machines (RT 2073 and 2074):
  • Laptop provided, and had to learn from experience to prevent power saver settings from shutting it down
  • Other machine not critical
• Renewed request today for a folder on ShiftLeader's terminal for making files web-available (RT 2083)

Databases:

• Migration macros started on onl01 by Dmitry
  • Machine died (from exhausted memory): cause is unknown, but perhaps one of the users
    • Table further investigation until it proves to be systematic
• New DB node allocation for FatOffline(+nightly tests) awaits results of Lidia's tests
• Dmitry noted that detector ID lists needed to be (and were) verified among Lidia, Tonko, and himself
  • Jerome noted that offline should rely on DB lookup by subsystem and not depend on a local list (he will follow up with Lidia)
• Dmitry implemented flexible, graphical selection of timestamps for his online DB plots upon feedback from Alexei L.
  
  • Jerome tested on several OS-browser combinations

FastOffline:

• Jerome notes that the chain needs continued attention (e.g. geometry, CA tracker), and Gene will take this

QA:

• Some minor modifications made to OnlinePlots for VPD by Kefeng and Gene