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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' Check histogramming and data transfer #1 is enabled for *all* data acquisition servers as indicated by 'H X' tags See attachment 1 2) Workspace 2 - Firefox web browser - TapeServer tab Select 'Reload' Check TapeServer stopped and disk file closed (green GO button displayed) See attachment 2 3) Workspace 2 - Firefox web browser - MERGE tab Select '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 Select 'Reload' Check 'Act on ALL FEE64 modules?' selected Check 'Act on ALL ASICs' selected Select 'Select required function' -> '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 Check state of *all* data acquisition servers is 'going' Check histogramming and data transfer #1 is enabled for *all* data acquisition servers as indicated by 'H X' tags See attachment 6 6) 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 inactive call for expert help and do NOT proceed! Observe active spinner in MERGER server terminal window See attachment 7 7) Workspace 2 - Firefox web browser - TapeServer tab Check 'Volume Name' and 'File Name' Start TapeServer and open disk file - select green 'GO' button See attachment 8 8) Workspace 2 - Firefox web browser - MERGE tab Select 'Reload' several times and check all enabled data links (0-23) are always 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 (~ 9000 data items/s) Observe active spinners in MERGE and TapeServer server terminal windows adjacent to web browser See attachment 9 9) Workspace 1 - Firefox web browser - Run Control tab Select 'Start ASIC Data Readout' See attachment 10 10) 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 *never* active call for expert help and do NOT proceed! Select 'Reload' to observe merge rate (~ 0.5-2M data items/s) See attachment 11 11) Workspace 2 - Firefox web browser - TapeServer tab Select 'Reload' and observe number of blocks written to disk increasing See attachment 12 12) 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 BRIKEN Elog with the following information AIDA run filename (e.g. R99) [# data blocks] start date & time [stop date & time] ASIC settings DB key additional comments your name Complete run sheet for written logbook
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