 27 Jun 2011, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, midas shared memory changes
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A number of changes were made to the midas shared memory implementation for
Linux and MacOS:
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27 Jun 2011, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mlogger lock for runNNN.mid.gz files
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By popular request, Stefan R. implemented a locking scheme for mlogger output files.
To use this function, set the mlogger ODB /Logger/Channels/NNN/Settings/Filename
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 05 Jul 2011, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, midas shared memory changes
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> 2) the shared memory type used by an experiment is recorded in the file .SHM_TYPE.TXT.
An error with creating the file .SHM_TYPE.TXT was corrected in system.c svn rev 5125 - if file did not exist, it is
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11 Jul 2011, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Make "STOP" run transition always succeed
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Over the years, there was some back-and-forth changes in what happens to run transitions when some
of the participants misbehave (do not respond to RPC calls, timeout, crash, etc).
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30 Jan 2012, Stefan Ritt, Info, IEEE Real Time 2012 Call for Abstracts
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Hello,
I'm co-organizing the upcoming Real Time Conference, which covers also the field of data acquisition, so it might be interesting for people working
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20 Jun 2012, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, lazylogger write to HADOOP HDFS
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I tried using the lazylogger "Disk" method to write into a HADOOP HDFS clustered filesystem and found a
number of problems. I ended up replacing the lazylogger lazy_copy() function that still uses former YBOS
code with a new lazy_disk_copy() function that uses generic fread/fwrite. Also fixed the situation where
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20 Jun 2012, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, midas vme benchmarks 
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I am recording here the results from a test VME system using two VF48 waveform digitizers and a 64-bit
dual-core VME processor (V7865). VF48 data suppression is off, VF48 modules set to read 48 channels,
1000 ADC samples each. mlogger data compression is enabled (gzip -1).
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20 Jun 2012, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, midas vme benchmarks
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> I am recording here the results from a test VME system using two VF48 waveform digitizers
Note 1: data compression is about 89% (hence "data to disk" rate is much smaller than the "data from VME" rate)
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21 Jun 2012, Stefan Ritt, Info, midas vme benchmarks
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Just for completeness: Attached is the VME transfer speed I get with the SIS3100/SIS1100 interface using
2eVME transfer. This curve can be explained exactly with an overhead of 125 us per DMA transfer and a
continuous link speed of 83 MB/sec. |
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21 Jun 2012, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, midas vme benchmarks
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> Just for completeness: Attached is the VME transfer speed I get with the SIS3100/SIS1100 interface using
> 2eVME transfer. This curve can be explained exactly with an overhead of 125 us per DMA transfer and a
> continuous link speed of 83 MB/sec.
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22 Jun 2012, Stefan Ritt, Info, midas vme benchmarks
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> > Just for completeness: Attached is the VME transfer speed I get with the SIS3100/SIS1100 interface using
> > 2eVME transfer. This curve can be explained exactly with an overhead of 125 us per DMA transfer and a
> > continuous link speed of 83 MB/sec.
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22 Jun 2012, Zisis Papandreou, Info, adding 2nd ADC and TDC to crate
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Hi folks:
we've been running midas-1.9.5 for a few years here at Regina. We are now
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24 Jun 2012, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, midas vme benchmarks
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> > > Just for completeness: Attached is the VME transfer speed I get with the SIS3100/SIS1100 interface using
> > > 2eVME transfer. This curve can be explained exactly with an overhead of 125 us per DMA transfer and a
> > > continuous link speed of 83 MB/sec.
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24 Jun 2012, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, midas vme benchmarks
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> > I am recording here the results from a test VME system using two VF48 waveform digitizers
(I now have 4 VF48 waveform digitizers, so the event rates are half of those reported before. Date rate
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25 Jun 2012, Stefan Ritt, Info, midas vme benchmarks
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> P.S. Observe the ever present unexplained event rate fluctuations between 130-140 event/sec.
An important aspect of optimizing your system is to keep the network traffic under control. I use GBit Ethernet between FE and BE, and make sure the switch |
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25 Jun 2012, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, midas vme benchmarks
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> > P.S. Observe the ever present unexplained event rate fluctuations between 130-140 event/sec.
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> An important aspect of optimizing your system is to keep the network traffic under control. I use GBit Ethernet between FE and BE, and make sure the |
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26 Jun 2012, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, midas vme benchmarks
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> > > I am recording here the results from a test VME system using four VF48 waveform digitizers
Now we look at the detail of the event readout, or if you want, the real-time properties of the MIDAS
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26 Jun 2012, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, midas vme benchmarks
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> > > > I am recording here the results from a test VME system using four VF48
waveform digitizers
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29 Jun 2012, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, lazylogger write to HADOOP HDFS
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> Anyhow, the new lazylogger writes into HDFS just fine and I expect that it would also work for writing into
> DCACHE using PNFS (if ever we get the SL6 PNFS working with our DCACHE servers).
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27 Jul 2012, Cheng-Ju Lin, Info, MIDAS under Scientific Linux 6
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Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone has attempted to install MIDAS under Scientific Linux 6? I am planning to install
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