1. IceCube Offline Database Overview Georges Kohnen Université de Mons-Hainaut 07.09.2006 Zeuthen Collaboration Meeting

2. Today’s ride… Introduction Database contents Filling/Updating the Database, now and in the future Reading from the Database, interaction with offline-software Practical information New features this year To do 2

3. Introduction MySQL Database, “I3OmDb” Contains / will contain most of 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

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 after domcal runs every few weeks/months Very large sets of data (~100 MB per run for 9 strings)!

9. DOM Configuration (Detector Status) tables 9 Updated once per run Indexed by ConfigId

10. DOM Monitoring table A Under work, need to include post-monitoring results

11. Trigger tables B Different design: triggers do not all have the same parameters NEW!

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

13. Independent tables D 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)

14. Internal tables E Set of tables that keep track of Updates / Revisions Start and End dates of records Comments

15. Filling the Database Until recently: filled from (text/.xml) data files, database created from scratch each time Since this year: automatic update of Run details, Trigger data and Detector Configuration/Status from DAQ on Pole DB for online use Then, regular synchronization of SouthPole I3OmDb with a reference Database in the northern hemisphere, and overall synchronization with this reference DB Manual updates/filling of non-regular data: Geometry, Domcal,... F

16. Using the I3OmDb Database at SouthPole 10 DAQ PnF / Offline Software on SouthPole SouthPole I3OmDb Fill run, trigger and detector status information automatically Source modules Other modules … Reference I3OmDb I3Db services In testing now: 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” I3Db Parameters

18. Practical Information Primary redundant Database server: icedb.umh.ac.be (also containing information about the content of the Database and about the I3Db services, as well as a public web-interface  DEMONSTRATION ) Mirrors: ppemons.umh.ac.be, dbs2.icecube.wisc.edu (should be used from the USA) Database Name: "I3OmDb" Read-only login: username "www“ (> mysql -h "server" -u www) Recommended tools for “brute” access: –MySql Query Browser –MySql Control Center 12

19. New features this year 13 On the database side: –Trigger storage tables –Continuous update of detector and trigger on SouthPole (each run) On the software side: –I3Db turned into a set of services –Reconnection to DB in case of problem

20. To be done 14 On the database side: –Store monitoring information from “human” detector monitoring –Store precise status information about the DOMs –Store TWR data –Store Flasher data –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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