# Presentation: 504836

## DAQ Support and Development (non-Run II)Project Status Update for 09/05/2006

- Gerald Guglielmo, Kurt Biery
- (CD/CEPA/OAA)

## Project Deliverables Status

- DAQ Development and Support (non-Run II)
- Proposed Experiments (watching* for warning signs)*
- Minerva no development request (asked to review systems in future)
- SciBoone no development request (attend workshop)
- MIPP Upgrade
- Help define DAQ design for proposal (~15Sep2006)
- what CD is willing to develop for MIPP
- Small Experiments
- COUPP no development request
- Test Beam Experiments (no activity)
- Meson Test Beam Facility Upgrade represents potential significant request
- CAMAC support or VME migration path
- General readout upgrades/new hardware support

## Project Deliverables Status (cont. 2)

- CMS Remote Operations
- Develop the event server piece of the storage manager to support online monitor programs (consumers) such as the event display
- Release of enhanced event server 09/01/2006
- Support for multiple consumers and consumer trigger requests
- Storage manager changes to support multiple consumers and allow consumers to specify trigger requests were delivered last week
- Communication within the storage manager team has improved as deadlines have neared.  In some cases, details of how the final system will work are still being worked out.
- Learn about and contribute to CMS plans for remote operations
- Not much activity at the committee level (LHC@FNAL or CMS working sub-group)

## Project Deliverables Status (cont. 3)

- Astrophysics
- DES (No activity beyond workshop in February)
- SDSS-II DAQ Upgrade
- Remaining tasks:
- Replace two bad Peritek VCQ-M video daughter cards on spare video boards at APO
- Update the documentation to reflect the new system
- (Improved astro sky subtraction has been deferred for now)
- Occasional MVME5500 network problems (board hangs) have become much more frequent since the summer shutdown.  These will need to be investigated with the help of APO staff.
- Operational support mode by 09/30/2006

## Effort Profile General DAQ Support and Development  (non-Run II)

- (Tools) 0.05 FTE prior to Jan; 0.08 FTE Feb DES Workshop,

## Effort Profile CMS Remote Operations

- In theory effort loaned to AMR for generic remote operations tasks

## Effort Profile SDSS II Upgrade

- FY07 is mainly bug fixing, support, and less essential features

## Risks

- General issue of available effort already over-subscribed
- Not keeping pace in some areas forcing harder look at priorities
- New requests mean effort must be squeezed from other projects
- New requests can happen with little warning, hard to plan and optimize effort (often not in time for budget planning).
- Forces some crystal ball gazing
- Priorities can change over time forcing re-evaluation and re-allocation of effort
- DAQ Development and Support
- MTEST upgrade may get approved and require significant development and support
- VME migration path or additional CAMAC work
- No longer have expertise in group for some hardware (e.g. CAMAC)

## Risks (Cont.)

- CMS Remote Operations
- Level of involvement after 09/01/2006 needs to be worked out
- Fuzzy boundaries between remote operations and CMS-specific work
- Difficulty getting information from the CMS collaboration
- Sudden requests for extra effort impacts other laboratory/division priorities
- Requests directly to division management and/or around line causing difficulties in managing effort

## Risks (Cont. 3)

- Astrophysics
- SDSS II Upgrade (in production)
- Final tasks may linger due to priorities or difficult nature
- Failures in hardware components that were not upgraded (e.g. Vigra video cards, 712M SCSI interface cards, VCI+ cards)
-  DES could request development help