Developer's meeting

Wednesday 21 Dec 2016, 17:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Round-table:

• PNNL server (almost) arrived? Should house HTG710 board and hence allow for playing with code.
• Kevin's Amazon web server (running CentOS7) now functioning. Demo code compiles and runs; but no large-scale tests done yet. Kevin will create accounts for others if desired.
• Frank similarly has the demo code compiled and running on the Neutrino Platform machines (CCentOS7), but observed a crash after processing some 300 events. Sent the logfiles to Kurt, and will also send them to Kevin.
• Milo has been working on something else and hence had to put the compression studies on hold. Was wondering about updated data format (Eric Hazen was to post an update of his DocDB-1701 note, but apparently this cannot be found yet). To be followed up.

Schedule:

• need to start paying attention to schedules, especially if we want to be ready for the testing effort at CERN
• Frank started a ProjectLibre document (Gantt chart print-out attached to the agenda), starting essentially from an earlier proposal by Giovanna
• we discussed a little bit the details but decided not to add anything as yet on e.g. compression using GPUs or "resource assignment"
  • also need more understanding of the code before it is meaningful to add more detail
• we discussed the monitoring requirement a bit in particular. Lynn mentioned that this could be easy or difficult, depending on details. Frank said that ideally, this would be one thread in the BoardReader application that "simply" sends out slow-control information on request.

Next meeting: to be held on January 11

17:00 → 17:15 Schedule discussion

FELIX-20161221.pdf

summary from Monday's DAQ meeting