IRIS

Information on IRIS DAQ

• IRIS experiment is located on ISAC-II floor.
• MIDAS access: https://iris00.triumf.ca/
• ELOG access: https://iris00.triumf.ca/elog/

Contacts

• Experimental setup and operation - Rituparna Kanungo [ritu@triumf.ca]
• DAQ hardware and software - TRIUMF-DAQ group / Pierre-A. Amaudruz [midas@triumf.ca]
• mhall
• malacorta

IRIS Linux DAQ cluster

IRIS is composed of 5 machines

• IRIS00 - Main NFS server and DAQ (experimental floor)
• IRIS01 - Auxiliary analysis computers (ISAC-II north counting room)
• IRIS02 - Auxiliary analysis computers (ISAC-II north counting room)
• lxiris01 - VME processor for ADCs Mesytec MADC32s (experimental floor)
• lxiris02 - VME processor for TDCs CAEN V1190s (experimental floor)

and 2 VME crates:

• irisvme1
• irisvme2

Home directories: on iris00 2x240GB SSD (ZFS mirror) /home1

Data storage: on iris00 2x20TB HDD (ZFS mirror) /zdata/iris, NFS mounted as /iris/data0/iris

Equipments

• VMEPS1, VMEPS2 - record VME power supply temperatures, etc, VME remote power turn off, turn, i.e. to reboot the VME processors
• IonTemp - USB MSCB dongle with remote sensors wires going to the probes mounted on the ion chamber
• Beamline - is the feepics program to record EPICS data into MIDAS history
• EB - is the EBuilder program to connect ADC, TDC and Digitizer data
• FEDT5740 - is the digitizer frontend, to use it, kernel module CAENUSBdrvB should be loaded (see below) and Digitizer should be plugged in and powered up
• feadc, fetdc - frontends running on the VME processors feiris01, feiris02. to start them, VME crates should be powered up, VME processors should be running (ping and ssh)

Dcache

• apt install dcap dcap-dev
• add to rc.local

mkdir -p /daq/pnfs
mount trdata00:/pnfs /daq/pnfs -w -o noac,vers=3 &

How to rebuild IRIS DAQ

• build EPICS see https://epics.anl.gov/

cd $HOME/packages
git clone https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base
cd epics-base
git checkout R7.0.8
make -j
ls -l bin/linux-x86_64/

• build MIDAS with EPICS:
  • set MIDASSYS to $HOME/packages/midas
  • set EPICSSYS to $HOME/packages/epics-base
  • cd $MIDASSYS
  • make cmake
  • check that build/examples/eventbuilder/mevb and build/examples/epics/fe_epics were built

• build ROOTANA
  • make sure ROOTSYS is set and points to a working version of ROOT
  • cd $HOME/packages/rootana
  • make clean; make
  • there should be no errors

• build iris-daqtools
  • cd $HOME/packages/iris-daqtools
  • rm -rf build; mkdir build; cd build; cmake ..; make
  • there should be no errors

• build VME frontends and event builder
  • cd online/src
  • make
  • feairis.exe, fetiris.exe and eb_iris.exe should be built
  • event builder should be run: eb_iris.exe -b BUF

• build VME power supply frontends:
  • cd $HOME/packages/fewienerlvps
  • make clean; make

• build DT5740 frontend
  • install CAEN drivers and libraries
  • cd online/dt5740
  • make
  • fedt5740.exe should be built

• build analyzer
  • cd $HOME/current/anaIris
  • make
  • there should be no errors, bin/anaIris should be built.

Install CAEN DT5740 driver

• ssh root@iris00
• apt install linux-headers-generic
• apt install gcc-12 ### only if "make" complains about it!
• cp ~olchansk/daq/CAEN/CAENUSBdrvB-v1.6.2.tgz . ### or download it from CAEN
• tar xzvf CAENUSBdrvB-v1.6.2.tgz
• cd CAENUSBdrvB-v1.6.2
• make
• make install
• modprobe CAENUSBdrvB
• in dmesg and in /var/log/syslog

[6025297.550251] CAENUSBdrvB: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[6025297.550642] CAEN Desktop Waveform Digitizers Carrier found at address 5
[6025297.550736] probe: obuf address:00000000fe2b2e43
[6025297.550741] probe: ibuf address:00000000beb0270c
[6025297.550765] usbcore: registered new interface driver v1718
[6025297.550766] CAEN USB driver version 1.5.5

• load it on boot:

echo "modprobe CAENUSBdrvB" >> /etc/rc.local

now go back to iris@iris00, cd online/dt5740, ./fedt5740.exe should print this:

iris00:~/online/dt5740> ./fedt5740.exe
Frontend name          :     feDT5740
Event buffer size      :     2186000
User max event size    :     1088000
User max frag. size    :     5242880
# of events per buffer :     2

Connect to experiment iris...
OK
Init hardware...
begin of Init
[feDT5740,INFO] successfully opened digitizer
[feDT5740,INFO] Connected to CAEN Digitizer Model DT5740
ROC FPGA Release is 04.17 - Build 2110
AMC FPGA Release is 00.12 - Build 1516
acqctl - 0x8100: 0x0    err:0
end of Init
OK