Meeting Notes for 28 Apr 2010

Misc

• Looks like a server issue ate our 14 Apr notes

Common

• New hardware planning in progress
  • Shiny new www18 (2x4x2.4GHz Intel E5620, 12GB, 2x500GB)
  • Shiny new virtualization server (1x8x2GHz AMD 6128, 16GB, 4x500GB)
    • Consolidate most/all the whitebox machines onto it
  • Do something with the donated 2x2x2.0GHz, 4GB AMD motherboard?

Cosmic

• Weird upload issues (network timeouts? problems? &c) we're trying to trace. Issue appears to have cropped up in the last week or two.
• Split.pl corrupted data
  • 300 uploads are suspect and need to be re-uploaded and post-processed.
  • Metadata needs to be inserted
  • Old data that made it into the system - delete it?
  • Do we just split this job up into n people?

CMS

• Student investigation: z→μ^±μ^±
  • Advanced-mode that permits students to bring in z→ee [PUT ON HOLD]
• We'd like a histogram that builds data over time
• Kids should be able to look at particular runs (e.g. data from week of 1 May, 4 Mar, etc.)
  • Can use simulated data until we get the actual rundata this fall
  • Can do mocked-up runs
• Build the histogram versus show a fully completed one

• One run/one week, build histogram event-by-event?
  • Can't do now
    • Mihael will look into this and do cost estimation
  • Can build run-by-run?
  • Maybe we just use existing Flash animations

• Do half-width/full maximum (e.g. fitting method) [PUT ON HOLD]

• DanK is busy with QuarkNet stuff until 10 May.
  • Mihael meets afterwards? Or maybe with L. Taylor until then.

• Mihael's ELabs-OGRE mockup
  • Marge suggests the existing interface is (in general) pretty good

LIGO

• Need to merge some fixed code in from Cosmic
• Super-Bluestone sort of paused (working on Cosmic fires)