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 QA - Jerome/Gene/Bedanga

             3) QM2011 abstract - Bedanga

             4) BUR12 Committee - Nu

             5) Spin PWG convener - Nu

             6) TBD

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II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

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

             1) new convener for Spin PWG: Renee

             2) BUR12 committee: waiting for BNL charges

            3) QM2011 abstract: abstracts go to PWG by end of Feb. // Nu contact Jaro about STAR collaboration meeting at Prague

            4) JetCorr new convener candidate. More young conveners with fresh mind are needed.

            5) Run11: STAR is progressing well including trigger detectors and FMS // CAD is still working on the collider

            6) DY DIscussions on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011. (9 am - 13 pm):

                - Participants: Carl, Steve H., Steve T., Ernst, Haun, Flemming, Bernd, Nu

                - Talks:  Carl: talk ppt file // Steve H.: Talk ppt file

                - To Do List:  (1) Carl and Steve H. will outline the physics of future forward physics(W) at STAR;  (2) Steve H.

                   will discuss with Mark and Nu will discuss with Feng and Jianwei about the physics of polarized p on nuclear

                  targets; (3) Simulations are urgent now. WIll discuss with Jamie and Jerome about Jnsen's involvement;

                  (4) Decadal Plan suplement documents due on Friday, May 13th, 2011 in preparation for the PAC meeting

                  during June 6-7-8. Results of simulations are needed in the new documents. (5) Calorimenter proposal from

                 UCLA group will move forward.

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 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:  11 AM - 12 PM EDT

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

I. Agenda:

             1) Run11 preparation - Bill

             2) Run10 200 GeV production - Jerome/Gene

             3) APS Spring abstracts - Bedanga

             4) DY Effort in STAR - Bernd

             5) New institute for STAR - Nu

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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 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 1st, 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 production - Jerome/Gene

             3) DY meeting at BNL - Bernd

             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 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.

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)