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 Stop Run

1) Workspace 2 - Firefox web browser - TapeServer tab

   Select 'Reload'

   Check number of blocks written to disk is increasing

   See attachment 1

   If TapeServer data rate is zero see https://elog.ph.ed.ac.uk/AIDA/303

2) Workspace 2 - Firefox web browser - MERGE tab

   Select 'Reload'

   Check merge rate (~0.5-2M data items/s)

   See attachment 2

   If MERGER data rate is zero see https://elog.ph.ed.ac.uk/AIDA/303

3) Workspace 1 - Firefox web browser - Run Control tab

   Select 'Update'

   Check state of *all* data acquisition servers is 'going'
   Check histogramming and data transfer #1 are enabled as indicated by 'H X' tags

   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'
   Check histogramming and data transfer #1 are enabled as indicated by 'H X' tags

   See attachment 3

   N.B. Occasionally the state of all data acquisition servers does not change to 'stopped'
        and if this happens simply re-try by re-selecting 'STOP' 

4) Workspace 2 - Firefox web browser - MERGE tab

   Pause MERGE input - select 'Toggle Merge Program Pause State'

   See attachment 4

5) Workspace 2 - Firefox web browser - TapeServer tab

   Stop TapeServer and close disk file - select red 'STOP' button

   See attachment 5

6) Complete 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