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

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