The Project Control Meeting
Agenda for Monday October 25, 1999 will be:
(Meeting time: 10:30 am Pacific Time)
CANCELLED DUE TO NSF LIGO II REVIEW
Today (10/21/99) there was a scheduled test of the Hanford-area emergency
warning sirens. I suspected that there might be some other related
emergency exercises scheduled to coincide, so I mentioned this at the
morning work meeting, in case any of our staff/visitors would encounter
blaring sirens or moving emergency equipment. At approximately 11 am,
the
power feed was suddenly cut off to a large section of the Hanford site,
including LIGO. It is not yet known if this was related to a safety
drill
or just coincidence. We executed the normal fire drill procedure until
we
could assure ourselves that no hazard existed within the LIGO facilities.
Power was restored by noon. There does not appear to have been any
permanent damage, except to our confidence in the power supplier.
Bake Oven:
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(K. Ryan)
LHO Vacuum Bake Oven A load #61, consisting of numerous SS fasteners,
misc. COS components, Al plates & posts, Beam Dump glass, Teflon
blocks
and one magnet, was released earlier this week.
Load #62, consisting of one 10" optic SPETM06-A is vacuum baking and
should be released tomorrow 10-22-99. We experienced a site wide power
outage during this load but don't expect the release date to be affected.
Optics:
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(D. Cook)
The BSC7 "wet" seat replacement had a few unexpected glitches which
slowed
the ITMx-2k realignment. In the end all went well. Betsy and I glued,
balanced and got the ETMx-2k into the vacuum bake load. We had a busy
week
of training Hanford staff and visitors on our new laser SOPs that we
are
currently working under. We have another SOP for Mike Smith to approve
for
aligning the ETMy-2k telescope in the Y-Mid station. I also have been
making preparations for the ETMy-2k optical telescope and ETMy-2k core
optic installation starting next week. We have had a lot of preparations
to ready for the FM realignment activities for M. Smith and Co.
Seismic Systems:
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(C. Gray & H. Radkins)
ISC
Completed the Brunson Optical Square adjustment. Set up the theodolite
and
optical square for the alignment of the ITMx and for use by Mike Smith
for
FMx, FMy, and APS telescope alignment. ITMx has been aligned.
Preparing for ETMy core optics alignment.
SEI
The coarse actuation system (CAS) was finally brought online for BSC7
to
ready for adjustment of the Optics Table position following the Coiled
Spring Seat replacement. This adjustment was done with horizontal
motions
of a few mm and 900 microradians of rotation.
The Optics Table in HAM 10 has been leveled and elevated, and secured
from
horizontal motions using the L. Jones Z-pivot replacement brackets.
Preparing for Xmid Isolation Stack completion
Computing:
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(C. Patton)
This time the hacker was using our computers to
send a CHARGEN attack on
an IP address in Italy. There also appears
to be some damage on our
server, system files are not as they should be.
Did the usual backups, helped with several printer and PC problems and
kept the GC accounting paper work up to date.
Electrical & Electronics Systems:
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(R. McCarthy)
This has been quite the busy week for all at Hanford. The electrical
department was no exception. Cabling for the ASC, LSC to the ISC tables
was started. All of the one pin lemo cables for wavefront sensors
and
bullseyes on ISC table 7,9,10 have been made. This is a difficult
task
since each set of four cables needs to be matched. Most of the
ribbon
cables for inside 2x1 were assembled tested and installed.
Final tie in of the PEM outdoor building temperature sensor cables has
commenced. This task should be done Friday. Testing of
the system will
begin shortly.
Installed the electrical for the corner station compressor with Otto.
The
other four will the done by an electrical contractor. The walk
through
and estimate have been completed.
Alex Wood has been working on As-builts of PEM items, such as the break
out boxes, weather station location, conduits that were added to the
buildings.
Progress continues to be made on the design and layout of the GDS
interface board.
Illuminator cables have been installed and terminated for the 2k system
in
the corner station
Detector installation: HAM#2: Completed building electrical cables,
Removed and replaced all
spring-seats and shims, installed all internal electrical cabling,
performed
continuity check on all cables(all O.K.). The new Viton seats and shims
were
exposed to clean-room Hepa filtered air during working hours and purge
air
on off hours. from 11:20am Tues. to 12:00pm Wed.(24hrs.40 min. before
pump-down began). The new purge dam was used between HAM#2 and HAM#1
for
keeping purge air in HAM#1. Returned 80RH,80LH spring-seats,4 shims,all
in 4
paint cans to Matt Smith over-night UPS on Wednesday (10-20-99).
HAM#3: Moved clean-room into position, cleaned all parts and equipment,
in
process of staging same for seat&shim replacement starting Monday
(10-25-99). (Riesen)
Beam tube bakeout: Preparation for the lx-1 bake are well underway.
All cryo pumps have been
installed and leak tested. Turbos are also installed and tested. We
are
starting the data collection system and checking it out. DC cables
and
heater blankets are on the tube. Blankets and controllers are also
in test.
RGA is being installed at the mid point.
We have had some problems with the vacuum bake oven gaskets. Some have
failed due to, what we believe, are thin spots on the gaskets. We are
looking at this to see what can be done. So far this has not caused
significant delays in the bake prep schedule. (Sibley)
PSL: The power stabilized laser is working in its full configuration
except for
the intensity stabilization servo. 7.3 Watts of output power is now
available. A series of diagnostics are being run including the PMC
output
beam shape, the angular beam jitter and long term behaviour of the
frequency servo and PMC locking loop.
More measurements of the various servo transfer functions are being
performed.
A measurement of the slow polarization rotation from the model 126
Lightwave Miser is also being undertaken. (Kovalik)
Optics: Straddle fixture should be out of the paint shop today.
Will
assemble tomorrow. Worked with Myron McInnis on ISC installation details
this week.
Completed a second small, cheap, Michelson interferometer with an audio
amplifier for Southern University. Began in earnest site cleanup for
the
dedication. (Jonathan Kern)
CDS Installation: Wired cross-connect for panel 1X4. We are waiting
on a few misc. pieces from Hanford to finish the cross-connect panel. We
are waiting on power supplies and VME cards from Pasadena to help complete
the rack.
The satellite modules for the SOS are being shipped from Pasadena today.
We are still scheduled for the projector installation the week of November
1. I have spoken to their technician to get a list of their requirements
from LIGO (power, grounding, locations etc.) (Wooley)
Built EPICS software link and preparing connectors for dust monitors,
which includes purchasing of Opto Isolators and RS232-RS485 converters
for
connection to the VME 162 card. Continuing to receive parts and reconcile
P-card account. (Svoboda)
Vacuum prep: We have finished baking two LOS mirrors with magnets.
We are preparing
to bake some kapton cables, but are having problems with what appears
to be a bad batch of gaskets for the oven.
Computers: We have ordered two additional Gateway PCs. We are
also experimenting
with setting up one of the Suns as a secondary DNS server to increase
performance when the link to LSU is slow or down. (Tom Evans)
Facilities: The foundation for the LIGO sign at the junction
of Hwy 63 and the access
road has been poured and is ready for the installation of the sign,
which is
scheduled for next week. The grass along both arms has been mowed just
in
time for the dedication. (Stapfer)
Community relations: 45 Livingston Parish high school Honors
Physics students from Denham Springs High School toured LIGO this week
with their teachers. They also brought with them posters about LIGO that
they had prepared earlier this fall. Their teacher, Monica Ballay, has
been here several times for visits during the spring and summer and had
gathered materials so that LIGO could be discussed in the classroom before
the students' field trip. (This is the same teacher whose class Nergis
spoke to last spring following the NSF review at LLO).
ISC sensing assembly (P. Fritschel & R. Adhikari)
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Rana is testing the first of the (to be) Dark Port RF
sensing photodetectors delivered last week by Dale, using the
700 mW NPRO and EO modulator. . This
one will be used for the single arm test.
IAS initial alignment (K.Mason, M.MacInnis)
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Ken is at Hanford amd Myron is in Livingston. At Hanford, the beam
tubes
for FMx laser and photodiodes were installed. ITMx has been realigned
and the optical lev er nulled for this final position. An optical lever
flat was installed in the beam tube alo ng the x-axis and aligned to
allow Mike Smith to set up his autocollimator. FMx h as been aligned
by
Mike and the optical lever nulled for this final position. The beam
tube
for F My has been remachined in preparation for final alignment of
FMy
later this week. At Livingston, the MMT3 and RM optical levers have
been
installed. The cameras an d Illuminators have been installed in the
LVEA. Myron and Jonathan have surveyed in the height marker we will
use
for alignment in a couple of weeks of MMT3 and the recy cling mirror.
ISC controls/GDS/PEM (Ed Daw)
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This week I have been working with Sam Finn on our project to
produce a simple simulation to produce ligo-like data. I have
also continued to work on my Livingston PEM installation
document.
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Lasers and Optics -- dhs for J. Camp
(1.2.1.1.2, 1.2.1.1.3, 1.2.1.1.4,1.2.1.1.5)
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Prestabilized Laser -- Peter King
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- The LLO PSL pre-modecleaner (PMC) has been installed and the main
beam
has been routed towards the IO/PSL hand-off point.
The only remaining servo to be installed on the LLO PSL is the
intensity stabilization servo. With the bulk of the hardware installation
completed, the output of the PSL is available to IO for alignment of
the IO
optical train.
- The LLO PSL frequency stabilization servo is operational. However
it
appears that it is not quite as robust as the one at LHO, for reasons
currently unknown. The lack of robustness is apparent when the beam
to the
reference cavity is blocked for a period of time and then unblocked.
Whilst the servo re-acquires lock instantaneously, it oscillates when
it
does. Manual re-adjustment of the servo gains restores the proper
behavior.
Input/Output Optics -- Dave Reitze, UF
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LHO 2k (Haisheng Rong)
- The MC can now be locked w/ an input power of 4.7 W in s-pol (high
finesse polarization. Lowering the PD gains on the OSEM reduces their
sensitivity to scattered light.
- The FI was realigned to its former performance.
- David S., Peter S., and Haisheng are realigning the MMT.
LLO 4k (Sany Yoshida, David Tanner)
- The shop has made some additional wire clamps and winches for the
SOS.
These are being sent to LLO today.
- A revised SOS installation record / quality certification document
has
been circulated to the IOO folks.
- Beamtube drawings for the PSL-HAM beamtube have been revised to
incorporate a lock-and-tag beamblock.
Core Optics Procurement and Metrology -- GariLynn Billingsley
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All equipment in the metrology lab is now operational. We have ceased
measurements on 4ITM03 and are attempting to get two ETMs measured
instead. The change was made to support the Livingston installation
schedule.
Core Optics Coatings -- Helena Armandula
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I inspected some uncoated optics (RM's), to check the surface quality
before any cleaning takes place.
Also, I'll be looking for ways to clean ITM01, the stained substrate
that
we did not coat, and observe if any changes on the surface profile
occur
after cleaning.
This optic has been fully characterized at CIT.
Core Optics Support -- Michael Smith
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Team installing APS telescope etc. at LHO.
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Isolation Group -- M. Fine
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Seismic Design (Mike Fine)
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1. Shipments to LLO:
The last cable shipment will arrive at LLO next Tuesday or Wednesday.
The shipment includes motor cables, data cables and junction boxes
for
BSC1, BSC2 and a spare set of BSC cables. A replacement junction box
is
also included for BSC3 to replace the column #4 junction box with the
amp
type limit switch connectors that were too short. The cables will be
included with this shipment to replace the short cables.
2. Electronics Rack Documentation:
The electronics rack documentation will be ready for final check-out
early
next week. The complete drawing package is expected for release by
the end
of next week.
3. SEI Balance Weight:
An order has been placed with Conejo Industries for additional 3,500
lb
weight. The expected shipping date is the end of November.
Suspension -- (Janeen Hazel/Mark Barton/Mike Fine)
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1. Report from Janeen:
-The LLO RM is baked, balanced and ready for
installation.
-The LLO MMT3 needs its suspension block,
which is currently being baked. It will
be rehung and checked on Nov 2nd.
-An order has been placed with Micro
Hybrid Dimensions for alumina circuit
boards to mount the alternate osem
surface mount LEDs and photodiodes. There
is a 3 week lead time. The machine shop
here is working on the spacers.
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Detector Systems Engineering -- D. Shoemaker/D Coyne
(WBS 1.2.1.1.9)
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Global Diagnostics System
(Daniel Sigg, John Zweizig)
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I have started to incorporate the new Filter APIs into the
DMT signal processing library and to add new filters and
modify old ones to fit within the new structure. Much of the
API development work was done by Sam Finn at Hanford
during the last two weeks. Once the standard source has
been updated to reflect these modifications, I will distribute
a new release for those who wish to use this software.
I have also installed the new version of root and have been
developing a root-based online optical lever signal viewing
tool which may eventually be useful when calibrating
suspensions from the control room.
I worked on a root-based data evaluation and display tool
that allows a user to evaluate a function of several data
channels and display the result in either the time or frequency
domain. This also revealed a few bugs in the way data were
manipulated which were repaired.
Worked on the sine response test; currently supported
features include: (1) multiple sine excitations, (2) multiple
measurement channels, (3) determination of the sine
and coherence coefficients, (4) determination of the
input-output transfer matrix, (5) determination of
intermodulation products and (6) determination of
harmonic coefficients and the total harmonic distortion.
Noticed a problem with spectral leakage when calculating
the sine coefficients of close-by frequencies. Solved the
problem by adding an optional windowing function.
Worked on the triggered time series test; currently
supported features include: (1) periodic trigger setup
and (2) time series averaging.
Fixed a problem related to large decimation rates which
occurred when the data rate of the output time series
was below 16 Hz. The data is now collected in time series
segments long enough to give at least one decimated
data point.
Worked on setting up the make file and compiler/linker
flags to allow building the gui interface code from Christine
together with the diagnostics code.
Physics Environmental Monitor(Matt Smith, David Shoemaker)
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Matt working on Fluorel seat baking. He reports:
This week we shipped batch #10 and 11 to Livingston. These are two
complete sets of seats and shims to be installed into two BSCs.
The average weight loss for the batch 10 samples were .175 g(.44%)
for
the RH seats, .143 g(.37%) for the LH seats, and .104 g(12%) for the
shims. The average weight loss for the batch 11 samples were .230g(.57%)
for the RH seats, .139 g(.36%) for the LH seats, and .261 g(.32%) for
the shims.
Batch # 12, for a LBSC, was loaded into the oven on Thursday and is
due
to come out Monday morning and shipped to Livingston.
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Control and Data System -- R. Bork
(WBS 1.2.2)
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WA 2K One Arm Test CDS (Dale):
===============================
Installed wire harness in Rack 2X1 and moved front vertical
rails to the correct positions. Six Eurocard Slot Testers have
been built to use for testing cabling in 2X1 and 2X2. More are
on the way. The LSC Photodiode Interface should be ready
for PCB fab by the end of this week.
Timing System (Dale):
==============================
Tested and delivered three more GPS Clock Drivers at
Hanford. Verified that the linear ramp used to determine
"T0" start time is working. When readout by the DAQ
system there are ripples before the start of the ramp and
at the top of the ramp which we determined are caused
by the FIR filters in front of the ADCs. This should not
affect the determination of "T0" but is an annoying property
of the filters.
Suspension (Jay)
=========================
- 15 Satellite amplifiers have been fabricated and are 95% tested.
They
should be shipped to the sites next week.
- Design and layoutof the coherent detection prototype version of the
statellite amplifier is complete. Boards are due back next week. One
should be available for tests by Nov. 10.
WA 2K One Arm Test (Jay)
=========================
- Software for the LSC controls and the auxiliary controls is complete
and will be tested at LHO next week.
- All modules required for the one arm test are complete and have been
shipped to the site.
ASC (Jay)
=========================
- 5 more QPD amplifiers have been assembled and will be tested as
manpower becomes available.
- Software for the WA 2K ASC slow controls is complete and will be
tested at LHO next week.
Global (Jay)
==========================
- Jay floated the preliminary requirements for an analog patch panel
system to be used to pipe signals around the LVEA and possibly to the
control room. No comments have been received as yet.
ASC (Rolf)
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- Continued testing of ASC front end; Used new flash ROM to upgrade
ISC
supervisor such that it can use the new PMC reflected memory. Plan
to
finish
initial testing with verifying GDS test signals.
The Quarterly Report (end of August) has been sent to the NSF. We are working on the Operations Budgets for FY 2000 and waiting for contributions for the FY 2000 Operations Work Plan.
Change Control/Contingency (Lindquist)
The following change requests have
been submitted:
| CR-990018 | WBS 1.1.5 | Beam Tube Bake--Revised Estimate at Completion | W. Althouse |
| CR-990024 | WBS 1.1.1 | Vacuum Equipment--Closeout Louisiana In-House | J. Worden |
Press for the latest Contingency Needs Projection
Everyone is reminded to provide a redlined copy of their current LIGO business card to Ed Jasnow so that we may plug it into the print shop for new ones.
From: Sarita Moore<moore_s@ligo.caltech.edu>
Press here for ACCOUNTS PAYABLE HISTORY DATA.
From: Kris Duncan <kris@ligo.caltech.edu>
The monthly financial reports for September 1999 are complete. They can be found in the usual place. I am working with Barbara and Larry to set up another location for these reports.
TECHNICAL CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT (Althouse)
WBS 1.4.3 System Engineering / Data Analysis and Computing
Systems Engineering -
No Weekly Summary Reports Received.
* LIGO Data Analysis System -
Software:
[Masha Barnes]
* (MB) External references handler:
- finished writing the code;
- Added a new Tcl extended command
to set up an
internal flag for
lwAPI not to expand/expand all
external references
when reading a LIGO_LW document
- tested on Sun and Linux
* (MB) Fixed memory leaks related to strstream.str() for ilwd,
framecpp, and genericAPI;
* (MB) Built the whole ldas system on Sun and Linux with memory
leaks fixes for Phil to test.
* (MB) Fixed line continuation for lwAPI.
* (MB) Working on 'Table' element for lwAPI.
[Kent Blackburn]
* (JKB) Worked with Phil to identify missing frame structures
from the ILWDs generated
by the frameAPI
* (JKB) Worked with Mary to get results from a database mock-
data-challenge using the
metaDataAPI and openlink's
driver to insert rows into
our DB2 server/tables.
* (JKB) Met with Masha to discuss new c++/tcl extensions for
the lightWeightAPI to support
tables, frames and time-
series.
* (JKB) Identified a name casting problem within the frameAPI.
Masha saw Dave and he confirmed
that the problem was
there when he left and never
fixed. Masha and Nathan
will work to fix the problem.
* (JKB) Met with Nathan to outline a new set of range checking
templates for the ILWD arrays
so that binary overflows
and roll overs are caught
and exceptions get thrown.
* (JKB) Met with Grace to outline a C++ class to handle MPI
intracomms and groups.
* (JKB) Held three meetings with staff to discuss readiness
for an LDAS 0.0.4 build
of the system.
* (JKB) Analyzed usage of the LDAS CVS repository since its
creation in January. Metrics
from these studies have
been entered into an excel
spreadsheet.
* (JKB) Prepared for travel next week to Livingston to install
the first LDAS hardware
components at this site.
* (JKB) Began working on PAC7 presentation.
* (JKB) Outlined an ILWD object socket communication benchmark to
the group to study the performance
of the ospace object
serialization classes on
our fast ethernet for a range of
array sizes using all data
types.
[Phil Ehrens]
* (PSE) Added support for rawdata.serdata, history, and detector
queries to getFrameData.
* (PSE) Wrote test wrappers for testing data socket communication.
* (PSE) Wrote generic handlers for listening data sockets using
threaded accept functions
which prevent the API's from
becoming permanently blocked
by a failed data transaction.
[Grace Hu]
* (GH) writing new communicator MPI source code.
* (GH) writing fft transfer MPI source code.
* (GH) writing array distributing MPI source code.
* (GH) reading genericAPI, managerAPI, userAPI, general lib &
ilwd lib.
* (GH) try to pass MPI_COMM_WORLD to the called funtion,it
still didn't work. I also try
to run an example-user_bcast.cc
(which has similar function call), this
program didn't work.
[Barbara Kratochwill]
* (BK) Finished the changes to the Software Block Diagram web
pages. Added Phil's new
entries for db2 documents and
site log files. Added links
to PDF documents. Fixed
up the Under Construction page.
The diagram and pages
can be viewed at
http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~barbarak/ldas/
(Lower level links won't work until
all are moved to spica)
[Mary Lei]
* (ML) Changed data socket send and receive in sock.tcl and
metadataAPI after Phil created
the method to
check accept connection
thread without use of nested after.
metadataAPI can now do database
insertions via ilwd
sent from socket.
* (ML) Modified metadataAPI to use Ed's new dbEasy for getting
the
unique Id instead of via
stored procedure. Tested program
and gds triggers tables.
Reported problems to Ed.
[Edward Maros]
(EFM) Fixed PERCEPS line continuation character.
(EFM) Fixed lib/general and lib/ilwd to use new PERCEPS
line
continuation character.
(EFM) Continued work on Uniqueids support in metadataAPI.so
(EFM) Worked on BLOB support in metadataAPI.so
[Nathan Yospe]
* (NY) Created non-string based versions of pointer return functions
used
by swig in frameAPI and genericAPI,
wrapped them in string
conversion functions with interfaces
identical to the original
functions, and tested them for
identical behaviour to the original
using Tcl calls on sun and linux
* (NY) Found down three bugs in putElement functionality; fixed two;
third
is possibly a result of one of
the others. Testing still in
progress.
* (NY) Tracking down source of unwanted colons inserted in ilwd files
as
part of <ilwd name="..."> lines
Hardware:
[Ed Maros]
(EFM) Compiled the CD burning software for Kitalpha
(EFM) Burnt RedHat 6.0 and RedHat 6.1 disks for Intel platform.
[Stuart Anderson]
(SA) Working on implementing a flexible authentication model for
LSC access to the LIGO data stored in HPSS
at Caltech.
(SA) Accepted delivery of the first components of the Caltech LDAS
installation: the two Linux boxes, controlmon
and linuxbox1.
[Larry Wallace]
(LW) Worked on a number of procurements for both Livingstons LDAS
setup and CIT's LDAS setup.
(LW) Received the PC's for CIT.
(LW) The damaged/late arriving rack at Livingston is now in place.
* End-to-End Modeling -
[Biplab Bhawal]
o Continuing validation of summation cavities (especially
the recycling cavity) and full LIGO ITF configuration.
[Matt Evans]
o Continuing development and testing of new implementation
of field-class and modal-model.
[Ed Maros]
o Work on new new Beta version of alfi3
(/home/emaros/e2e_beta/bin/alfi)
Complete support of absolute
paths.
Working on supporting relative paths.
Eliminated X warning messages from displaying on
the screen.
To see them, Debugging needs to be enabled.
Properly save type for primitives.
[Bruce Sears]
o Continuing development of the Alfi Component Tree.
[Hiro Yamamoto]
o Attending TAMA workshop at Tokyo.
* General Computing -
MIT:
David S. is still working on things and getting the machines
upgraded to Solaris 2.7.
Livingston:
We have ordered two additional Gateway PCs. We are also
experimenting with setting up one of the Suns as a secondary
DNS server to increase performance when the link to LSU is
slow or down.
Hanford:
This time the hacker was using our computers to send a CHARGEN
attack on an IP address in Italy. There also appears to be some
damage on our server, system files are not as they should be.
Did the usual backups, helped with several printer and PC problems
and kept the GC accounting paper work up to date.
CIT:
Barbara K. developed the web forms for adding items to the cost
book (still have to do the backend processing). Added Direct/
Contract labor and On/Off Campus indirect cost columns to the
Cost Estimate Detail report. Went over a number of items with
Larry concerning existing and new web setups.
Suresh restored seismic data of Livingston from tape and stored
in canopus at following location:
/export/data1/seismic_livingston
Worked with Larry to install new HP Color Laserjet 4500N printer
in fax room of basement of bridge.
Made data CD for Bill Althouse's home directory.
Installed solaris 2.6 in system named mintaka after it was observed
to be hacked in.
Setup a new LIGO user account for John Broeckel.
Assisted users mostly in email and printing problems.
Samantha called Mcaffee got quote for 101 seats, Larry is working
out the details for the purchase. Fixed a file for Veronica that
was sent improperly by e-mail. Transfered a slide show from powerpoint
to pdf for Kip Thorne. Performed Y2K patches on more computers, almost
finished. Answered various computer type questions. documentation,
documentation, and more documentation100
Larry is working a number of procurement issues. New PC's for new
users, upgrades on existing SUN equipment, printer upgrades and
maintenance contracts are also being worked out.
Working with SUN to resolve the e-mail issues with Solaris 2.7 and
the latest patch set for Solaris 2.6. SUN is aware of most of the
problems with Solaris 2.7. Spellcheck problems with dtmail is also
a known problem and they are working on a patch for it.
We are working on upgrading the pine pkg. until then if you go into
setup (S) then config (C) and go to the default-fcc value and change
it to "empty value" the pkg. will no longer hang when sending messages.
Hiro sent Larry the info. and it did test out.
Installing a new version of IDEAS we a just waiting for the new set
of licenses.
Assisted a number of people working on presentations.
Setup a couple of PC's and worked a few SUN workstation issues.
Added new users and modified a number of accounts.
Dorothy Lloyd
Nothing new to report -- continue processing invoices, requisitions, data entry, etc.
Rita Torres
Week ending 10/20/99
For I. Petrac did requisition for Southeastern Louisiana University, input the details of same into Oracle to obtain a requisition number. Awaiting the official PO number so we can process for signature then submit to Purchasing. Input to Oracle details of change order No. 20 for Hytec to obtain a requisition number; distributed signed change order. Did letter to transmit Attachment Z to MOU with University of Oregon. More Oracle for req. number for Hytec, change order No. 20; distributed the signed change order.
For E. Jasnow obtained from Oracle a requisition and PO number for Richard Price Construction, vendor for Erosion Control and Landscaping at LLO. Once we received the PO number from P. Burton, updated the preliminary contract with the official PO number, obtained 10 bound copies, then FedExed 3 for signature along with sets of drawings. Input to Oracle details of change order No. 1 for Vomar Products. Also obtained Oracle requisition number for MMR change order No. 1, did edits to contract then letter to transmit the modification to vendor.
For P. Lindquist distributed Quarterly Progress Report for period ending August 1999. Also organized reports in his office for June through August. Reconciled some P-Card orders. Did site trip updates for Detector Group. Set up laser training session for 10/21/99, arranged for another eye exam.
Prepared name labels for cubicle and door for Szabolcs Marka. Helped E. Wood/I. Baldon distribute travel-related checks.
Irene Baldon
Due to my vacation I have nothing to report this week but will submit a complete one next week.
Elizabeth K. Wood
Did passport stuff.
Did NSF review stuff.
Did LIGOfest stuff.
Did some visa-related work.
Dealt with the telephone office.
Szabolcs Marka is a new postdoc in room 358 WB, extension 2005.
Louis Becker is a new contractor at 315 S. Wilson, extension 2075.
Talked to HR/payroll about an employee's missing vacation.
Hired a new undergrad to work with Samantha and Larry Wallace.
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