ATTENDEES:

Till, Debbie, Ernest, Sonya, Kristi, Charley, Kukhee, Patrick 

TOPICS:

Announcements:

  • Qing to take over BLEN and BLD from Sheng.
  • Debbie is implementing 120 Hz Magnet control
  • Charley Granieri is taking over networking for Terri, who will be leaving for a year starting January
  • Unofficial rumor: 120Hz operations may not start until September 2010
  • Unofficial: if 120Hz operation is delayed, we want to be able to run 120Hz up to TD11 on MD days for feedback testing between April and September.

Fast Feedback Project Status:

  • FCOM communications, BPMs, RF, Magnets, BLD, EDM UI fully reviewed and implementations started
  • Network Installation has begun in IN20 and LI24

High Priority - we need to complete these action items this month -Till will push the multicast addressing issues

  • FCOM multicast address range must be agreed upon - Till, Terri, Antonio
  • RF, BPM, BLEN VME IOC multicast addresses assigned (different from FCOM address range)  - Till, Terri, Antonio
  • ip addresses for VME IOC and Coldfire EIOCs second NIC must be assigned and all addresses added to DNS - Till, Sonya, Qing, Kukhee
  • multicast node naming convention agreed upon for easy lookup by IOCs, EIOCs - Till, Sonya, Qing, Kukhee
  • BLEN, Configuration Application, and Controller Final Design reviews this month - Qing, Partha, Diane

Testing in Production:

I have reserved two weeks of the downtime schedule, March 7 thru March 21, for Fast Feedback testing in production. I have asked that we have water, power, the timing system, and the new network fully installed and working during these two weeks. We cant have beam, but I'd like to set up the timing system to trigger BPMs & BLENs without beam.

Do we need anything else working?

What can we test?

  • communications between BPMs, BLENs, and Controllers.
  • Network throughput and load
  • Timing delays for each IOC

What about the actuators - is there any testing we can do with LLRF and / or Magnets?

Starting January 4th, we have 9 weeks to get all subsystems ready for testing

ACTION ITEMS

  • Ernest - create and distribute a diagram of the test stand
  • Charley and Sonya - investigate mac addresses on PADs
  • everyone - use production versions  of EPICS, RTEMS, etc
  • Diane / Partha plan Configuration Final Design review
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