70 likes | 161 Views
Muon DAQ Workshop. Muon Week, CERN 17-21 February 2014 Nicoletta Garelli (SLAC). Workshop’s Goal. LS1 Need to keep DAQ up-to-date Occasion to fix and improve specific items Few people working on DAQ for the 4 subsystems Try to work together as a whole system Share knowledge
E N D
Muon DAQ Workshop Muon Week, CERN 17-21 February 2014 NicolettaGarelli (SLAC)
Workshop’s Goal • LS1 • Need to keep DAQ up-to-date • Occasion to fix and improve specific items • Few people working on DAQ for the 4 subsystems Try to work together as a whole system • Share knowledge • Identify tasks and priorities • Learn more about progress on specific topics • How to cure the MDT saturation problem Tiesheng • TGC: How to improve the quality of the clock distribution and the noise burst Toshi • RPC: progress on the new electronics and the new RCD Franz • Discussion on some common aspects • Please, stop, ask, interact!
Muon DAQ • Trying to collect information on a dedicated twiki • https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/Atlas/MuonDAQ • Please, use it, update it! • Collect ideas for qualification tasks • Regular short meetings on Tuesday late morning since beginning of the year • Is it useful? • 7.8 FTE expected for 2014 • A lot of work! Ask for (wo)manpower? • Try to improve collaboration with • Monitoring group • DQ group • DB experts
Muon Loop • Idea: to have it working before the new CTP • To run muon system independently • So far: • SLC5/tdaq-04-00-01: MuonLooppartition with MuCTPi and TGC • MuCTPi was generating 500 Hz L1A and the data were flowing from the TGC RODs to the SFIs without errors nor timeouts • Lessons learned: • Detector needed in order to use RODs • DAQ Slice used good start towards (non ROS-EB) stand-alone data taking • Next Steps • Migrate to tdaq-05-03-00 • Muonsw, L1 sw, DAQ Slice • Integrate the other detectors • Perform timing measurements (L1 help needed)
Muon Loop Plans • In the next months fewer big interventions on the infrastructure scheduled • More time for testing/running • Needed pieces • Experts running the system • Experts checking the timing with L1 people • Experts following up the upgrade of the sw to tdaq-05 • Will to make it working? • If yes, by when? • My guess: it could run in July 2014, if one person would work for a full day per week on it. • Good opportunity for new people to learn how to make the system running
SLC6/tdaq-05 • Migration to SLC6 done by sysadmins • Fine. Few problems under control • Very important to use ticket system to report bugs/ask requests to sysadmins (https://atlasop.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/SysAdmins/ContactSysAdmins#During_standard_working_hours) • Migration to tdaq-05-03-00 • Release notes actually contain very valuable information • Many new features offered by TDAQ not (yet) used or seriously studied/considered we can do better • Some muon participation to the TDAQ Training • Was it useful? We should send feedback to TDAQ • Compilation of muonsw against tdaq-05-03-00 • Done a bit at the last moment, basically more than half M1 used for this too few people working on this?
M1 • We are basically at the first point • Running standalone • After this experience, will we be able to finish the integration during M2 or better aim to M3? • I think it was good to have experts around (despite concurrent Muon week) and progress on the compilation/standalone • but now we should be able to define better our goals for next M run • Shifter assistant and automatic actions by when?