November 6, 2019 online meeting minutes

present: Sergey Boyarinov, Raffaella, Stepan, Ben, Nathan

1. Upcoming run: have to be ready for Nov 22

• some boards replacement: FADC in BAND, TDC1190 in PCAL, maybe one FADC in FT hodoscope (Ben will look)

• switch replacement on pie tower - tomorrow by CC

• helicity flip rate will be 120Hz, 90us t-settle (dead time during flip); Sergey isl working to improve online correction procedure

• new fileserver: Paul Letta has some issues with new fileserver, will push transition to it to January break

• clon10 and switches in the hall: clon10 will be pushed to January since it is convenient to do it together with new fileserver; Sergey will reconnect 167 on FC to new switches

• RF board not reset every run, Sergey will apply fix

• beam structure control is in progress of designing: will put one dsc2 and one tdc1190 into VME crate on pie tower, put CPU in and start writing software

• new 10G cards in VME CPUs - issues resolved by Moffit, Sergey will install and configure it in mvt1 and mvt2

• FADCs for HDIce shows problems, Ed is investigating: problem was in config files, boards are fine

• classc1 loaded with new vxWorks kernel with bigger amount of file descriptors, did not help; installing new controller helped, it is ON for 14 days

• NEED to cleanup pie tower table (and crates)

• run start time and end time have to be on 'GO' and on 'End' or whatever

• short step stools will be moved to desired location in the hall

• trigger will be modified - Valery; Silvia will generate new dc roads; will run random trigger validation, this time with higher event rate since FADCs has busy corrected

• Irakli will return to old firmware/software for MM - beginning of next week

• enforce comment gui to be in center and on top

• end run begin run time

• make TI master recognizable (by extra words ?), need it to compensate for timestamp difference between TI master and the rest of crates - Sergey

• upgrade tdc1190 library (recalibration) - Sergey