1. IceCube Offline Database Overview Georges Kohnen Université de Mons-Hainaut 6.6.06

2. Today’s ride… Introduction Database contents Filling the Database, now and in the future Reading from the Database, interaction with offline-software Practical information 2

3. Introduction MySQL Database, “I3OmDb” Contains / will contain all the non -physics information needed by offline -software, on the SouthPole, on a cluster or on your laptop: –Detector Geometry / Calibration / Status / Run / Monitoring / Trigger… information –Ice Properties –AMANDA information –Different “lookup” tables 3

4. Introduction The stored information is time -based Records are “stacked” on each other Example: Geometry 4 Time Planned Geometry, whole detector Drilling: only string 21 Better calibrations: only string 21 Drilling: lots of strings 01/200401/200501/2006 “Qualifier” Drilling01/2006 Corr02/2005 Drilling01/2005 Initial D e m o n s t r a t i o n

5. Geometry tables 5 AMANDA Geometry (recently corrected…) Planned geometry (IceCube + IceTop) Drilling/Installation Season 1 (string 21 and stations 21, 29, 30 and 39) Corrections to these coordinates (from Kurt) Drilling/Installation Season 2 (strings 29, 30, 38, 39, 40, 49, 50, 59 and stations 38, 40, 47, 48, 49, 50, 57, 58, 59, 66, 67, 74) (= most “real” geometry presently available)

6. IceTop tables 6

7. AMANDA tables 7 Contents of “old” AMANDA omdb used by Sieglinde

8. Charge (Calibration) tables 8 from domcal.xml files Updated every few weeks

9. DOM Configuration tables 9 Updated once per run

10. DOM Configuration tables There are 64 variables in these table: for 5000 DOMs and 1 run = 1 day, there are 117 million entries for just one year → waaaaaay too much! → Split this table up according to the frequency at which the variables change (once a run, once a year,…) This is one of the cases where input / documentation / coordination is still needed! A

11. DOM Monitoring table B from Ignacio’s Monitoring files

12. Trigger tables C Different design: triggers do not all have the same parameters New! Being tested right now…

13. “Lookup” tables D OMId ↔ (string,tube) for AMANDA DOM Serial number ↔ DOM location (string,tube) DOM Serial number ↔ DOM name/nickname RunId ↔ Run start date/time

14. Independent tables E IceProperties: Effective Scattering length and Absorption length for different wavelengths (in 10 nm bins), for cos θ = 0.80 and 0.94, and for different depths: Z in 10 m bins (X and Y not (yet) available)

15. Filling the Database Until recently: filled from (text/.xml) files, database created from scratch each time Since this past Pole season: automatic update of Detector Calibration/Status from DAQ for online use Then, regular synchronization of SouthPole I3OmDb with a reference Database in the northern hemisphere, and overall synchronization with this reference DB F

16. Using the I3OmDb Database at SouthPole 10 DAQ Offline chain of modules SouthPole version SouthPole I3OmDb fill calibration and detector status information automatically Source modules Other modules … Reference I3OmDb I3Db services To be done: automatic synchronization of Pole and reference DBs (c.f. RevisionId)

17. Using the Database in offline-software I3Db project in offline-software: new design: not one monolithic piece of code anymore, but –one service for each stream (geometry, calibration, detector status,…) –one database service, responsible for connecting to the Database, retrieving/caching the data,… IceProperties are currently not used in offline-software, thus I3Db does not retrieve this information (yet) 11 I3OmDb Source modules Other modules … I3Db services Physics input I3Db retrieves the information according to the date of the event Offline chain of modules “hot-pluggable” Offline-software V2 soon available!

18. Practical Information Primary Database server: icedb.umh.ac.be (containing information about the content of the Database and about the I3Db services) Secondary Database Servers: ppemons.umh.ac.be, dbs2.icecube.wisc.edu Database Name: "I3OmDb" Read-only login: username "www“ (> mysql -h "server" -u www) Recommended tools: –MySql Query Browser –MySql Control Center 12

19. To be done 13 On the database side: –Need to store monitoring information from “human” detector monitoring –Need to store precise status information about the DOMs –Finalize complete DB synchronization –Implement “Garbage” or “Temporary” database? On the software side: –Need to rethink caching process in I3Db –New database services?

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