November 15, 2017 online meeting minutes

present: Sergey Boyarinov, Valery, Rafo, Cole, Ben, Nathan, Cuevas bluejeans: Raffaella, Andrea

1. Nov 17 cosmic run preparations:

• daq: check all fibers including set and mvt1; random pulser; TI and TS firmware upgrade to be tested; probably TD ?; will try too get to 50KHz,some coda software cleanup; SD jumpers to be installed if they arrived; ALL crates will be included in test, local setups cannot run; FT and HTCC to be installed before Friday; starts tomorrow morning; scaler1 to be commissioned; clon00 to be configured; RCDB to be deployed and tested

• trigger: ECAL/PCAL/[DC] as main trigger bit, separate triggers over fiber from FTOF, HTCC, FT/HODO; CTOF, CND, 2 MMs, SVT, over temporary cable, later over fiber

• configuration: exist, have to be tested, template files to be provided - Ben, Sergey

• monitoring: scalers/hiosts to epics over activemq, coda download/prestart required for correct reporting; need trigger scalers; histograms from Coles GUIs, and from trigger system as well to ROOT-based diaggui

• EPICS: move to 1.3.2; GUIs needed for all scalers, even for ones already included into expert guis

• trigger validation: ModelSim to be purchased; FT trigger stage 1 to be tested, other stage 1 components are in debugging process; stage 2/3 to be implemented