1. DAQ & ECS for TPC commissioning A few statements about what has been done and what is still in front of us F.Carena

2. 6 July 2006DAQ, ECS for TPC commissioning2 DAQ Setup for TPC Commissioning TDS LDC GbE Switch (HP) LDC 6x DRORC PX24/CR2 PC (SLC4): operation PC (SLC4): operation HLT-LDC 1x DRORC PX24/CR1 RCU SIU SXL2 GDC TDSM Server: DAQ, ECS, MySQL, MOOD Gateway aldaqtds03 2x 1.4 TB RAID5+spare, XFS aldaqcon02 RCU SIU 6x DDG 1x DRORC Server: SLC3,DHCP, DNS,… pcald25 /local (160GB) aldaqds001aldaqds002 /mdlocal aldaqpc001 aldaqpc013aldaqpc010aldaqpc012aldaqpc011 SLC 3.0.6 Castor 2.1.0-2 DATE 5.16  MySQL 5.0.21-1 MOOD 5.0.0.1 ECS 2.8 + 100 MB/s (to be upgraded) 409 408 512 517 513 509 404 504 407 503 508 506 /tds1 502 514 PC: TPC monitoring aldaqpc021 GDC TDSM aldaqpc002 aldaqcon03 /tds1 LTU TTCvi, TTCex lnxpool13 TTC GbE Switch GPN HLT Farm — Sector1 —— Sector2 —

3. 6 July 2006DAQ, ECS for TPC commissioning3 Changing from one sector to another Equipment Ids must be changed –Equipment Ids == data origin (i.e. from which sector) –Table of equipment Ids agreed (TPC, Offline, DAQ, HLT)

4. 6 July 2006DAQ, ECS for TPC commissioning4 Working with HLT mode A+ A+ –Data sent to HLT farm (splitters on and ‘forced’) –DAQ does not receive data from HLT (no HLT LDCs)

5. 6 July 2006DAQ, ECS for TPC commissioning5 LTU-proxy A component of the ECS/TRIGGER interface –A process running on the VME crate where the TPC trigger partition (LTU, TTCvi, TTCex) is located (lnxpool13) Is configurable –Two run modes (BC and pulser/edge) –In BC mode allows the selection of the event frequency –SOD and EOD events can be enabled/disabled Not a debugging tool –Does not offer all the feature of the ‘vmecrate ltu’ interactive program (A.Jusko) Gives to the ECS the control of the LTU –Connected to the DAQ network (ethernet over fiber) Under the ECS control, it allows the generation of sequences of events starting with a SOD event and ending with an EOD event

6. 6 July 2006DAQ, ECS for TPC commissioning6 HLT-proxy A component of the ECS/HLT interface Will run on the HLT farm For the time being we can use for test purposes a dummy version or (better) the HLT-proxy with TaskManager emulation provided by S.Bablok The HLT-proxy with TaskManager emulation runs on the same machine as the Detector Control Agent

7. 6 July 2006DAQ, ECS for TPC commissioning7 ECS: TPC Detector Control Agent Controls standalone runs –Starts / stops DAQ and Trigger (LTU) –Dummy DCS for the time being Detector always ready –Dummy HLT-proxy or HLT-pxoxy with taskManager emulator provided by S.Bablok Receive the right sequence of commands It is a good starting point for the required development

8. 6 July 2006DAQ, ECS for TPC commissioning8 DCA: before starting a standalone run

9. 6 July 2006DAQ, ECS for TPC commissioning9 Output messages from HLT-proxy

10. 6 July 2006DAQ, ECS for TPC commissioning10 DCA: after a standalone run

11. 6 July 2006DAQ, ECS for TPC commissioning11 To do DAQ: –Installation of DATE V5.19 (Monday 10 July 2006) Main difference TDSM (migration of files to CASTOR) Probably the last version supported on SLC3 ECS: –Interaction with a real DCS –Interaction with a real HLT-proxy –Implementation of various types of runs Pedestal runs (in progress) –Implemented in ECS –Roland preparing the required scripts –To be tested this week Datapath Test runs Calibration Pulser runs Physics runs –Require a close collaboration with Luciano, Uli, Roland, ….

12. 6 July 2006DAQ, ECS for TPC commissioning12 Pedestal runs: ready for testing