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) QM2001 abstract - Bedanga

             3) Extra shift credit - Nu

             4) NSAC questionary - Nu

             5) 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

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

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.

                                                        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

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

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.

                                                         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 and ANDY issue - Bill / All

             2) QM11 preparation - Bedanga

             3) Run11 and BES - All

             4) TBD

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

II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

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

              1) QM11 abstract: 63 received,few more are expected. Discussions are going on in the PWGs. Will preppare about 30 at the

                 analysis meeting time and prepare 25 abstracts forsubmissions.

              2) BES issues: v2, ncq scaling, HBT, LPV, higher moments => need new data at 18 GeV

              3) Run11 -Bill: Andy has no effects when it is online. 

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:

► STAR Analysis Meeting, BNL, March 14 - 18, 2011. Chair: Jamie Dunlop.

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

► APS Spring Meeting, Anaheim, April 30 - May 3, 2011. Deadline for abstract submission: January 14th, 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.

Minutes 

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

Online webserver:

• Wayne installed: SSH key client, osiris
• ITD backups nominally working
  • Warning message noted to ITD
  • Restore from backup (targeting machine with warning messages) by Wayne went fine
• Synchronization with secondary new webserver done manually, not yet automatic
• Tomcat restarted for Leve's scheduler statistics redeployment
  • Jerome's service idea should be copied from old server so that intentional downtimes don't trip the watcher

ShiftLog:

• Detector checklist being posted to the ShiftLog regularly now. A suggestion from Jan to make it easier was to make a shortcut to the checklist document from the ShiftLeader's desktop (post-meeting Leve learned that each new checklist is given a new document name; finding the document isn't that difficult anyhow)

Online user support:

• Enabling migration off sc.starp and onto linux pool
  
  • Dmitry notes that Corba libs are present on linux pool
  • Jan says Brian Page is in the midst of trying to move two components:
    • cdev reader (needs Corba libs, will try compiling)
    • DB writer (Gene will provide Brian with a working example code)
• Two online disks (noted by Wayne in previous meetings): replaced
• Some additional network issues this week
  • Initially fixed with a switch replacement
  • ...but addition failures occurred
  • Wayne will try to fix during access later today (post-meeting update: this went successfully; topic closed)
• starutilities replacement: usage extension currently with "soft" limit
  
  • Matt could not install C-AD software in XP mode on new box
  • next possibility is dedicated XP machine (needs a software extension from ITD)
• Other tasks (noted in previous meetings) in queue

Databases:

• Shift sign-up un-subscriptions now exclude trainees [Dmitry]
• Feedback to slow controls to implement monitoring of their automated services (are they running? is data flowing? for now, only Dmitry's dbPlots and an environment monitor)
• TPC anode voltage migration was not running, but Dmitry will turn it on (we are aware of its shortcomings)
• Dmitry noted RHIC clock seems to be variable even during fills (Gene will follow up)
• Some discussion of when DB snapshots run; Jan seems OK with packaging at midnight for 4am usage for cloud jobs
• Dmitry notes that there's an open discussion about recorded prescales being wrong. If this is corrected later in the DB, it shouldn't be a problem for offline users as long as they access from the DB and not from the DAQ files. Needs to be sorted out by trigger group first.

FastOffline:

• Laser files were being skipped; fixed by Jerome
• Automatic drift velocity calibrations started (and working)

QA:

• OnlinePlots had 3 problems spurred by update of starnew to SL11a library
  
  • Macros used (Load.C) needed modified loading order of libraries (fixed)
  • Numerous histograms getting skipped, and others in unusual order in output PDFs (RT 2085)
    • Temporary solution: run in starpro (SL10k) patched for TOF/VPD updates
  • Code for inserting PDFs into database should use 'REPLACE INTO' instead of 'INSERT INTO', but we only have a binary of the current version
    • Dmitry had source code from an old version which Gene edited to work as desired now (update: codes committed to CVS)
• Offline QA histogram filling needed to update code for TPC padrow determination
• AutoCombining of offline histograms stopped working (Elizabeth investigating) (update: fixed for a changed function interface in QA daemon)
• No references yet, but shift crew (Lanny) looking at data
  • Call for setting references will go out when physics readiness is achieved (many problems in current data)