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 preparation - Bill

             2) Run10 200 GeV production - Jerome/Gene

             3) New conveners: an update - Nu

             4) BUR12 committee membership - Nu

             5) TBD

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II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

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

             1) Run10 production: HPSS speed. Tape drive (LT04 or LT05). New one in two-three weeks. Production: going fine.

                 // QA: ok more to come.// Mention OSG in S&T review talk. Jerome will think about it and provide words. // new tracking evaluation //

                revisit Run 10 Production plan

             2) Run11: new RF 9MHz, reduce the diamond size // no collisions yet // Friday we may see collisions // no polarization measurement

                 // FMS problem, large cells gain shift with the field. Triiger including large cells? // slow control parameters // slow control code

                 should be in cvs //

             3)

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 16 - 21, 2011. Chair: Jaroslav Bielcik.

► QM2011, Annecy, May 23 - 28, 2011. Deadline for abstract submission: April 15th, 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 preparation - Bill

             2) Run10 200 GeV QA - Jerome/Gene/Bedanga

             3) STAR & eSTAR R&D issues - Flemming and All

             4) BUR12 committee - Nu

             5) TBA

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II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

             0) Attendency: Jerome, Flemming, Jamie, Bedanga, Olga, Bernd, Nu, Zhangbu

             1) Run10 data QA: No major problem // Streams discussions on trigger board // Bedanga: potential centrality issue, not fully understood

                 the 17% reduction in Run10 / New tracking parameters test? / PWG will ask a person to check the data, one person. Hiroshi. / TOP pid: //

             2) STAR & eSTAR R&D: Flemming: a meeting is necessary, March 9. Make sure folks for Calorimeters, RP, ... are all at the meeting. / Bernd:

                 STAR DY meeting on Feb. 13th. Steve H and Carl will lead the effort. Start 8 am. / Olga: UIC high physics folks, D0 muon system for STAR?

                 Olga start the discussion with few more people and make a recommendation at the next Thursday meeting. The D0 NIM paper is attached at 

                the meeting announcement.

             3) Jerome: need the info about run plan for FY11, 12 and 13 for a new computing equ. planning.

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

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

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 16 - 21, 2011. Chair: Jaroslav Bielcik.

► QM2011, Annecy, May 23 - 28, 2011. Deadline for abstract submission: April 15th, 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 - 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

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

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.

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

Minutes:

Databases [Dmitry]:

• Conditions collectors started (all except beam information related ones)
  • Everything running appears to be OK and status can be checked from web
  • Beam info needs cdev, provided by C-AD once their operations get going for the Run (also includes magnetic field setting; expect data around the time we turn on the STAR magnet)
    • Absence of this data means RunLog does not finalize runs and information is not migrated to Offline, but this is expected to be OK for now for anyone doing online-only tests (requested to post a note to rts-hn about this)
  • No migration issues expected, but TPC anode voltage recording practices need to be ironed out in the context of the Run 11 data (discuss with Maxim)
• Online DBs flushed
  • As expected, a few failed links and missing web pages were noted (by users too) and fixed
• Once cdev is running, will be ready for turn on / testing of FastOffline

ShiftLog [Leve]:

• As expected, excluded from and not affected by DB flush
• Manual updated for instructions on changing run status (may receive further review & changes from Jerome)

Online nodes [Wayne]:

• AFS has been stable on the newer evp machine since last Friday
  • Jeff's been using the machine (and AFS) without incident
  • Will likely switch OnlinePlots back to this machine (from evp2, the older machine) next week
    • Documentation requested for switching between these machines
• Replacement of dean at the stage of OS installation on new hardware
  • Timeline for replacement should be well before Run starts, as disk space on the new machine has been requested for online use
• Trigger commissioning is a high priority part of the request for online node resources (Wayne will contact Pibero directly)
• Nothing to report on OS upgrades

Online QA - jevp demo [Jeff]:

• Code
  • Subsystems have an xxxBuilder class (e.g. tpcBuilder, eemcBuilder, etc.) which inherits from a jevp base class for plots
  • Plot objects can have multiple histograms added to them, as well as other graphical objects like lines and circles (as long as they are of some "component" type?)
• Configuration
  • Editor allows hierarchical arrangement of plots into tabs and sub-tabs, under larger Sets (e.g. Shift, 2009, ESMD)
    • Features drag & drop for re-arrangement
  • Tabs can have collective properties for all plots underneath (such as setting all to have the same maximum)
  • Plots can have individual properties (such as log y scale)
• Running
  • One server starts up several builders as separate processes
  • Data is sent to the builders from a file or an event pool
  • Presenter runs separately to display plots
    • Similar basic look & feel to current OnlinePlots presenter
    • Clicking on a plot brings up a reference side-by-side
      • Drag & drop to add new reference, or select a different reference from panel of choices
      • Suggested: tag references with run from which they're made, and timestamp (already includes a comment)
      • Deleting references is simple, but not so simple as to be done accidentally
      • Mild concerns to be wary of reference bloat and organization as things evolve at the experiment (including collision species/energies change)
  • PDFs generated and uploaded to RunLog DB for each Set
    • Include table of contents
    • Concerns of space this will consume on the onldb server and redundancy of plots
      • Run 10 PDFs used more than half the available disk space, and it is reasonable to expect a doubling (or more) of the required space for Run 11
      • Wayne & Dmitry will assess the current storage on onldb [post-meeting statement that space may be fine; follow up next week]
      • Requirements still need to be more accurately defined
        • Will depend on what gets axed/kept from review by subsystems & trigger board
        • Would be helped by real data, but that's a bit late

Next week: demo of Offline QA for AutoQA with reference histograms [Gene]

Minutes:

Attendees:Dmitry A., Leve H., Matt A., Wayne B., Jeff L., Jérôme L., G. Van Buren

Databases [Dmitry]:

• Online backup now using the new NAS system
  • Daily backup of all three ports with a retention time of 7 days
  • Currently have 2+ TB of space, which is probably more than enough for even 14 days retention
  • Potential problem with permissions due to NFS mount and different user IDs on different systems, but not a problem presently
  • Email alerts of problems from NAS goes to Wayne & Dmitry
• Flush of online DBs not yet done
  • Reasoning is that still in testing at STAR and this can add up to significant amount of data
  • ...but we're not sure which test data people will want to keep associated to Run 11
  • Decision made to go forward with the flush and not continue waiting for testing to get further along
  • NB: ShiftLog (and some other) DBs and tables are skipped in the flush; ShiftLog is already recording for Run 11
• Shift Signup GUI has been re-written
  • Demo shown
  • Some details of new features still need implementation (working with Jérôme)
  • All old features are in place; could replace old codes at any time (pending bug checks)
  • Deployment schedule not fixed by any deadlines
• Isolated nodes for FastOffline in Run 11
  • Not in place, but Dmitry will write up a config file for this

ShiftLog [Leve]:

• Nothing until new web server
  • No progress on new webserver

Online nodes [Wayne & Matt]:

• OS upgrades:
  
  • FTPC and PMDsc done/replaced
  • To be done: Bond, EMCsc (coordinate with users), STARUtilities (coordinate with C-AD), EMC01, Beatrice, L3display (Jeff notes the need for QT4 on this node for display programs)
• FUSE now working on all linux pool nodes
• gcc standardized on all linux pool nodes
• Recent rise in instability of the linux pool nodes: several have halted and/or needed rebooted in the past two weeks
  • Previous solution of disabling USB controller not helpful for this (that solution is still in effect)
  • No obvious environmental changes, but seems likely given the pattern
  • These nodes are ~5.5 years old (hard to believe they would show age problems within a couple weeks of each other)
  • Similar nodes are in use for offline DBs and not showing problems (located in BCF)
• Newer EVP machine experiencing AFS issues
  • Access given to John McCarthy to help diagnose
  • OnlinePlots will be switched to use old EVP machine for the time being (Gene & Jeff will arrange)