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11th July ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
09:32 UK time, logged in and power-up all FEEs OK. Setup fine, Temperature Max 12@64
System Checks all fine SYNC count 2243584.
Start Merger and Toggle Pause for no merging.
DAQ start with output enabled.
Toggle Pause in Merger -> “Want First SYNC” with no change.
Tried this several times with the same result.
Checked DAQ statistics => Buffers/sec = 50 to 65, SYNC/sec = 40 to 80 ( should be 384 )
Disabled all ASIC readout and disable all discriminators. DAQ still in GO state.
Fetched new version of ASIC4 with Enable/Disable ASIC readout commands in the “Expert” menu.
SYNC statics now all FEEs are 384/sec.
Merger … Toggle Pause and its fine. 334 items/sec.
DAQ : ASIC4 : Set all slow comparator Thresholds to 250 : Enable ASICs for readout.
Merger now 532811 items/sec.
DAQ SYNC statistics range 307 to 390/sec
LT 22:36 System Checks => Sync counts 6518784 all ok, Sync errors all passed.
LT 23:30 Merger 539826 items/sec. Temperatures => 12@68.12 ; SYNC statistics 361 to 385 ; SYNC counts 8099840 all ok ; Sync errors all ok ; ASIC clock timestamp all ok.
STOP then Power-down all fine.
13th July ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Log in and power-up fine.
Backup Merger file ( merge.AD ) and copy latest version from DL. Won’t copy as file already open.
So instead …. Disable ASIC readout, disable Discriminators and run the system.
When Merger is operating , Enable ASIC readout => Merger rate is 8,058,412 items/sec.
LT 19:44 => Temperatures max 12@68.81 , SYNC received 845824 all ok; Sync errors all ok.
LT 20:11 => Merge rate 7,991,198 items/sec, SYNC received 1551359 all ok; Sync errors all ok.
LT 21:07 => Temperatures Max 12@69.00 ; SYNC received 2742272 all.
LT 23:20 => Stopped the whole system.
Kill the Merge process and the Startup process. Copy new Merge.AD successful. Edit Merger startup script to include netint OutputAll 1.
Start up Merger using /MIDAS/Merger/AIDA/Startup in terminal connected to aidas1.
Merger : Setup and configure ; Go ; Toggle Pause All Ok.
Go DAQ - disable all ASIC readout.
Merger : Toggle Pause ; Merging 8832 items/sec ( = 384 x 23 …. OK )
Connect to TapeServer setup for R3 into /TapeData/July2016 , Go Tape ok.
Merger : Toggle Transfer.
LT 00:08 => enable ASICS for readout. Run for a short while. Merge spinner hesitates for 2 seconds at a time. Merge rate 5,951,471 items/sec. Tape server rate 3,5148 Kbytes/sec.
Stop system, SYNC received 8085504 all ok ; sync error all ok. Power down. Sftp tape data files to nndhcp052 in Daresbury.
14th July -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Startup and run the system to tape again R4, ASICs with no discriminators. All fine.
LT 20:19 Enable Discriminators. Merger rate 3.9Mi/sec ( Mega items/second)
LT 20:57 Temperature Max 12@69 , Merge rate 4.2Mi/sec
UK 14:49 Network failure between Daresbury and Edinburgh. Lost contact repeatedly 4 times in a row. Contacted DL network support. No local networking faults.
LT 23:05 Re-connected to Aida in RIKEN. Merger 3.3Mi/sec.
Decided to stop due to concerns about flaky network and leaving the system powered up over the weekend.
SYNC received 7222272 all ok; sync error ok.
Power down. R4_244 is the last file. Written.
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