 04 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MidasConfig.cmake usage
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> > find_package(Midas)
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> So how much time should I spend in fixing find_package(Midas) to make it generally usable?
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08 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, cmake with CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX fails
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> > > cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/midas
> > > Is the cmake setup not relocatable? This is new and was working until recently:
> > Not relocatable. This is because we do not install the header files.
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10 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, cmake with CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX fails
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> > > > > cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/midas
> > > > > Is the cmake setup not relocatable? This is new and was working until recently:
> > > > Not relocatable. This is because we do not install the header files.
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15 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, blog - convert tmfe_rev0 event builder to develop-branch tmfe c++ framework
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Now we are converting the alpha-g event builder from rev0 tmfe (midas-2020-xx) to the new tmfe c++
framework in midas-develop. Earlier, I followed the steps outlined in this blog
to convert this event builder from mfe.c framework to rev0 tmfe.
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 15 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, 1000 Mbytes/sec through midas achieved!
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I am sure everybody else has 10gige and 40gige networks and are sending terabytes of data before breakfast.
Myself, I only have one computer with a 10gige network link and sufficient number of daq boards to fill
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18 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, my html modbvalue thing is not working?
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I have a web page and I try to use modbvalue, but nothing happens. The best I can tell, I follow the documentation
(https://midas.triumf.ca/MidasWiki/index.php/Custom_Page#modbvalue).
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18 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, 1000 Mbytes/sec through midas achieved!
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> In MEG II we also kind of achieved this rate.
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> Instead of an expensive high-grade switch, we chose a cheap "Chinese" high-grade switch.
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18 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, 1000 Mbytes/sec through midas achieved!
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> ... MEG II ... 34 crates each with 32 DRS4 digitiser chips and a single 1 Gbps readout link through a Xilinx Zynq SoC.
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> Zynq ... embedded ethernet MAC does not support jumbo frames (always read the fine prints in the manuals!)
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18 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Add support for rtsp camera streams in mlogger (history_image.cxx)
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> mlogger (history_image) now supports rtsp cameras
my goodness, we will drive the video surveillance industry out of business.
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20 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, MidasConfig.cmake usage
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> I agree that those two things are problems, but I don't see why it is preferable to leave the MidasConfig.cmake in this "broken" state. For us
> problem 1 is less of an issue, becaues we run "link_directories(${MIDAS_LIBRARY_DIRS})" in the top CMakeLists.txt and then just link against "midas",
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24 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, changes in history plots
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I am updating the history plots. Main changes:
- the old history display code should again be easily usable (use the "open in old history display" checkbox)
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24 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, MidasConfig.cmake usage
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> > So you say "nuke ${MIDAS_LIBRARIES}" and "fix ${MIDAS_INCLUDE}". Ok.
> A more moderate option ...
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25 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, changes in history plots
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> A general warning: With the recent history changes implemented in the develop branch, starting from a fresh ODB and editing
> any history panel, on gets tons of errors and debug output from mhttpd: ...
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25 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, changes in history plots
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> I disagree ...
I am happy with disagreement and differences of opinions. Zest of life, driver of progress and improvements, etc.
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25 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, changes in history plots
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> > The only "correct" way in my opinion is to implement two vertical axis, as can be seen in some papers. One for the HV, and a
> > new TBD right axis for the current values, then indicating for each graph if the left or right vertical axis applies. For
> > the secondary axis we can have autoscaling or fixed scaling, as we have for the primary axis.
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25 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, changes in history plots
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I will have to post an example of a scaled plot. I figure everybody forgot how they look like.
K.O.
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28 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, ODB Load in Sequencer
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> Hi all,
> for my experiment we ended up with the need of changing lot of parameters (~9000 values) in the ODB at once by the sequencer.
> The very first solution was to use a sequencer function with a ton of ODBSET calls, however a more elegant solution may be to provide an "ODBLoad" command |
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28 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, ODB Load in Sequencer
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> > > Hi all,
> > > for my experiment we ended up with the need of changing lot of parameters (~9000 values) in the ODB at once by the sequencer.
> > > The very first solution was to use a sequencer function with a ton of ODBSET calls, however a more elegant solution may be to provide an "ODBLoad" |
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28 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, ODB Load in Sequencer
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> ... at MEG, we keep hundreds of XML files for configuration. Mostly historical, but that's how it is.
same here, lots of historical .odb and .xml files.
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30 Jun 2021, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, changes in history plots
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> I am updating the history plots.
> So the idea is to use this computation:
> y_position_on_plot = offset + factor*(formula(history_value) - voffset)
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