Agenda:

1. Magnet information for Run 9- Steve

2. Trigger counter effciency - Kin

3. Systematic errors Run 2002/2003 - Stephen (to be confirmed)

4. The path forward - all

Minutes 

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

ShiftLog [Leve]:

• New server:
  • Ready:
    • App copied to new server (Wayne)
      • Successfully passed stability tests (pounding on it)
    • All WARs deployed
    • Scripts ready to flush cache and re-copy WARs
  • To do:
    • Will re-check links to and from RunLog
    • Watcher script not on yet
    • Verify Offline QA Shift Report connections

Online infrastructure [Wayne]:

• New web server:
  • Links on homepage checked
    • Some issues with DB access and privilege from current node name (dean2)
  • New jpgraph version installed in same location as the old one
  • Disk exports are not in place, so content isn't being updated currently
  • Will do another sync over the weekend or early next week, in addition to the final one when we swap servers
  • Ganglia to be installed
  • User accounts to be added
• New web server backup:
  • Configuration kept the same as main new web server
  • ...but content isn't sync-ed
• Password rotation completed
• mysql-devel installed on online linux nodes (RT 2068)
• Two online disk failures (on onl09 (non-critical) RT 2065 and on onlldap (critical) RT 2067)
  • RAID still providing for the file systems in the interim
• ITD network backups failing (RT 2069), but resolution from ITD may have just come through
• Machine replacements:
  • emcsc ready (needs either deployed by tomorrow or ITD block needs postponed)
  • emcspin ready (Monday)
  • starutilities awaiting C-AD software

FastOffline [Jerome]:

• Many files coming into the system, but all are tests, pulsers, etc., so not being processed
• Some missing detector setup, beam energy, etc. information: could mean misconfiguration, or potentially not properly propagated data

QA [Gene]:

• OnlinePlots switched back to newer EVP server
  • Switching steps still undocumented
• Pre-combining of FastOffline files still needs tested and configured to be the default

 Minutes

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

Databases [Dmitry]:

• All DB collectors running now
  • Only TPC voltages absent due to no data yet
• Slow Controls Archiver not yet running to avoid collecting value-less data
  • With Run start imminent, this needs to get going
  •  Dmitry will follow up with Yury G.
• Potential to benefit from an unused EPICS feature to read multiple channels in one request (we have been reading one channel at a time across the board), which could cut down the overhead in obtaining data
  • Unknown why this wasn't previously used, so testing with caution to learn (perhaps the multiple channel data comes in a burst which could fail for some reason)
• New shift sign-up release is imminent (possibly today)
  • Only minor features getting final adjustments (features have been [node:19902 "previously presented"])
• RunLog working fine: new runs appearing, but all being marked bad
  • Jerome notes that bad runs won't come through FastOffline, which has been turned on already
• New DB nodes
  • Tested and ready for use
  • New configuration (relevant for FastOffline use) not yet in place (Jerome and Dmitry will work this out)
• Online DB plots working and logs show usage
  • Only unavailable quantities are those collected from the Slow Controls Archiver

ShiftLog [Leve]:

• New manual is printed out and in place at the counting house
• ShiftLeader desktop computer has all the necessary icons, correctly linked and tested, including making a ShiftLog entry
• New web server not critical (stable operation on old web server)

Online infrastructure [Wayne & Jerome]:

• OS upgrade
  • One critical: a replacement node for usage in monitoring chilled water (old machine is Windows 2000) is awaiting ITD processing.
    • Follow-up with ITD on Monday if nothing transpires by then
  • Other machines in the queue ("bond", "beatrice", "l3disp")
• Online web server replacement
  • Currently replicating old machine on new one: file copying and version checking
    • ShiftLog request to continue with same Tomcat version (a known quantity) instead of upgrading in hopes of improved stability
  • Spin resource request involves storage to be delivered on new server
• Uncertainty in status of UPS services for computers at the experiment
  • Testing today before the Run starts
• Network request for east FMS/FPD racks completed
• Online linux pool has been stable for the past ~3 weeks (after a couple weeks of apparently random reboots)

FastOffline [Jerome]:

• Ready, running, and waiting for data

QA [Gene]:

• OnlinePlots still running on older evp machine (but stable)
  • Will look into moving it back over to the new node
  • Need Jeff L. to flip some switches (and document it)
• Offline QA
  • Finished implementing tools to update just specific histograms in reference set
  • QA Shift set of histograms will be flushed next week and started anew
    • Histograms only go into the set if given a description, and only stay in the set if a reference is set

We are expecting some collider operations imminently, so data will likely flow through the entire system over the next week.

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I. Agenda:

             1) Run11 Status - ANDY issue - Bill / All

             2) HFT reviews - Flemming

             3) DAQ10k upgrade - Jamie / Tonko / Zhangbu

             4) STAR Forward Physics activities - Nu

             5) Analysis SPC - Olga

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II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

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

              1) D0 muon system: Olga and Nu will discuss with Steve H. to see if it useful for STAR future physics program

              2) HFT status: BNL review week of March 21 or 28. Six to eight weeks later will be DOE review. 

              3) DAQ10k upgrade: Intend to double the speed of trigger. Remove some bottle necks in both soft- and hardwares. Involves

                  Tanto, Zhangbu, and others.e-mu, mu-mu measurements, for example. Need a review committee:

              4) Run11, ANDY: STAR is fine, FMS trgger is to be ready this night. CAD performence is not good. 9MHz tried, quited,

                 cannot come back to original settings. Setup rotaters for PHENIX.

                 ANDY: no systematic measure yet (Bill). ANDY is not really the trouble yet. The effect is not only about the luminosity,

                            background is also an imprtant issue. Need to quatify the effect. Bernd will prepare the document.

              5) Analysis meeting:

              6) Forward Physics simulations:

III. Note:

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

► STAR NPE Committee, H. Huang (chair), April 2008

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

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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.