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All AIDA operations are controlled from the Dell T410 Workstation aidas1 using web browsers. AIDA has multiple, independent data acquisition servers connected by an Ethernet network. Response times to commands, information updates etc are ~10-60s - please be patient! How To Start Run 1) Workspace 1 - Firefox web browser - Run Control tab Select Update Check DAQ stopped (green GO button displayed) Check state of all data acquisition servers is 'stopped' and histogramming and data transfer is enabled indicated by 'H X' See attachment 1 2) Workspace 2 - Firefox web browser - TapeServer tab Check Reload Check TapeServer stopped and disk file closed (green GO button displayed) See attachment 2 3) Workspace 2 - Firefox web browser - MERGE tab Check Reload Check Merge Program paused - see banner Merge State = GOing : paused : xfer enabled : output paused If not paused select Toggle Merge Program Pause State See attachment 3 4) Workspace 1 - Firefox web browser - ASIC Control tab Check Reload Check 'Act on ALL FEE64 modules?' and wait for request to be completed Check 'Act on ALL ASICs' and wait for request to be completed From 'Select required function' select 'Check ASIC Control' After ~60s a pop-up will appear showing the response from each ASIC of each data acquisition server. Check all ASICs are OK and status = 0x001F0000. Dismiss pop-up by selecting OK See attachments 4-5 5) Workspace 1 - Firefox web browser - Run Control tab Start DAQ - select green GO button Wait (~60s) until state of all data acquisition servers (nnaida1, nnaida2 ... etc) updates Select 'Data Acquisition Statistics' 6) Workspace 1 - Firefox web browser - Statistics tab Check Reload Check 'Show ALL Data Acquisition Servers' From 'Select counter to Monitor' select 'AIDA SYNC' Select 'Update Once' Check all data acquisition servers have a non-zero rate (typically ~300-500Hz) See attachment 6 N.B. If one, or more, data acquisition servers have zero rate return to Run Control tab stop DAQ (select red STOP button) check state of all data acquisition servers is 'stopped' with histogramming and data transfer are enabled indicated by 'H X' start DAQ (select green GO button) check state of all data acquisition servers is 'going' with histogramming and data transfer are enabled indicated by 'H X' return to Statistics tab check AIDA SYNC rates again and if zero rate persists for one, or more, data acquisition servers call for expert help and do NOT proceed! 7) Workspace 2 - Firefox web browser - TapeServer tab Start TapeServer and open disk file - select green GO button 8) Workspace 2 - Firefox web browser - MERGE tab Select 'Reload' several times and check all enabled data links (0-23) are active bright green = active, olive green = inactive, red = disabled N.B. If some data links are always inactive call for expert help and do NOT proceed! Select Toggle Merge Program Pause State to enable data merging Select Reload to observe merge rate (data items/s) Observe active spinners in MERGE and TapeServer server terminal windows adjacent to web browser See attachment 7 9) Workspace 2 - Firefox web browser - TapeServer tab Select Reload and observe number of blocks written to disk 10) Workspace 1 - Firefox web browser - Control tab Select 'Save/Restore Settings' From 'Save/Restore Module Settings' tab select 'Reload' select 'Module Names' whose settings should be saved (usually all) select 'Generate new DB key' and make a note of the DB key generated the DB key will have the format YYYYMMMDD-HH.MM.SS The DB key will be used to name a directory to store AIDA settings and is created uid: npg, gid: npgstaff, perms 755. However, its contents are written uid: nfsnobody, gid nfsnobody. The default directory (DB Key) permissions do not work - change the permissions to 777 - before attempting to save data to this directory (DB Key). launch a terminal and change the permissions of the DB key directory using the command chmod 777 /MIDAS/DB/EXPERIMENTS/AIDA/[YYYYMMMDD-HH.MM.SS] select 'Save Settings' to save AIDA ASIC, LED and waveform settings to the directory (DB key) 11) Update EURICA 2016 Elog with the following information AIDA run filename (e.g. R99) [# data blocks] start date & time [stop date & time] ASIC settings DB key AIDA trigger (e.g. OR DSSSDs #1 - #6) additional comments your name Complete run sheet for written logbook How to Stop Run 1) Workspace 2 - Firefox web browser - MERGE tab Pause MERGE input - select Toggle Merge Program Pause State 2) Workspace 1 - Firefox web browser - Run Control tab Select Update Stop DAQ - select red STOP button Wait (~60s) until state of all data acquisition servers (nnaida1, nnaida2 ... etc) updates Check state of all data acquisition servers is 'stopped' 3) Workspace 2 - Firefox web browser - TapeServer tab Stop TapeServer and close disk file - select red STOP button 4) Complete EURICA 2016 Elog with the following information AIDA run filename (e.g. R99) [# data blocks] start date & time [stop date & time] ASIC settings DB key AIDA trigger (e.g. OR DSSSDs #1 - #6) additional comments your name Complete run sheet for written logbook Encoding: HTML ELCode plain Suppress Email notification

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