Weekly Report for Week Ending December 18, 2003

THERE WILL BE NO WEEKLY REPORT NEXT WEEK OR THE FOLLOWING WEEK. WEEKLY REPORTS WILL RESUME JANUARY 8
 

The LIGO Executive Committee Agenda for Monday  December 22, 2003 will be:

 (Meeting time: 10:30 am Pacific Time)
 

1. Announcements
2. LSC Issues (Saulson)
3. Comments on Weekly Report
4. WBS 1 LIGO I Construction (Lindquist)
• Field Change Orders/Contingency Liens/Change Requests
5. WBS 2 LIGO Lab Operations
• Administration (Lindquist)
• Sites (Raab, Zucker, Shoemaker, Sanders)
• Detector (Whitcomb, Coyne)
• Campus Research Facilities (Weinstein (40 Meter), Libbrecht (TNI), Zucker(LASTI))
• Data Analysis and Computing (Lazzarini)
6. WBS 3 and 4  Advanced R&D and LIGO II (Shoemaker)
7. CHANGE CONTROL BOARD/TECHNICAL REVIEW BOARD SESSION AS NEEDED

Special Items:

Special Announcements:

Weekly Report Highlights
 

LSC Issues (Saulson)

no report

LIGO Laboratory Administration (Lindquist)

LIGO Weekly Site Telecon (Lindquist)
We held a site teleconference on Thursday, December 18, 2003.  The following issues were discussed:

• LIGO Procedure Manual (Action 120)--a lot of data has been gathered.  The objective now is to put it into a format that can be distributed for review and comment.  This will be returned to the front burbner.
• Budgets--No recent data has revised our latest projection of the FY 2003 carry-forward (approximately $5.5 million).  The latest proposed FY 2004 budgets are being reviewed with the sites; Barry has a copy; still need to review with Stan, Dennis, and Albert.  The budgets for other direct costs have been trimmed (travel, equipment, supplies).  We will set up reports to monitor costs against these budgets to provide early opportunities for adjustment or corrective action.  Overtime must be pre-approved by Gary.  These budgets will be entered into the FY 2004 reporting systems as soon as possible given that we are already 25 percent through the fiscal year.
• Hanford Outreach--Some responses have been received in response to an ad for an Outreach Coordinator.  This information will be provided to the staffing committee.

From: Ed Chargois <chargois_e@ligo.caltech.edu>

• Provided assistance to the Detector Group (H. Armandula) with the preparation of US Customs Documentation for the shipping of a Coated Fused Silica Sample, 3"dia. x 1" thick, valued at $2000.00,  to Dr . Peter H. Sneddon, at the University Of Glasgow. Account Number  LIGO.OPT.5.4 NSFLIGO.FY020N.
• Received information from LLO (R.Riesen) concerning two (2) forklifts that had some maintenance problems.  I have recalled the turn-in document SF 120 from the National Science Foundation.  There seem to be an issue as to which is better, to rent or repair this equipment.  Awaiting a final decision as to whether should these items be disposed of or repaired.
• Continuing  support of Caltech's Property Division with PMA's inventories.

>From: Linda Turner - turner@ligo.caltech.edu>

Web pages for the DCC give simple how-to's for document numbering, easy access to the latest on-line documents, and search capabilities for the DCC database. Take a look. . .

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Have been using the new DCC database enhancements that automate the transfer of the electronic documents.  All is working great!  This should allow for real-time processing and significantly reduce the bottlenecks that occur when processing manually.

• Recieved bids from two companies for additional file storage track units.  Both companies provided bids for retail and GSA pricing.

• Several MOU's were processed and posted.

• The electronic documents are completely processed and current to date.  The documents still residing in dcc/OUT represent two large packages of drawings received from David Reitze.  Dennis Coyne is reviewing them and when he has signed the accompanying DCN, these drawings will be processed and added to the electronic document directory.

ACTIVITY

• Electronic document activity has been fairly steady.
• Processed and distributed 1 DCN.

Press here to access the DOCUMENT CONTROL CENTER WEB PAGE.

From: Esther Cunningham <esther@ligo.caltech.edu>

Press here for ACCOUNTS PAYABLE HISTORY DATA .

From: "Brambila, Ruth" <Ruth.Brambila@caltech.edu>

• Researched and prepared requested information for Ed Jasnow pertaining to several LIGO subcontracts for contracted personnel.
• Completed change orders #12 & #13 to Excel Engineering.
• Placed credit card orders for Caltech and the sites.  Reconciled 35 credit card transactions totalling $41,214.67 for the last credit card cycle covering November 15 to Dec 15, 2003.
• Followed up on all the pcard orders shipping to MIT for Mike Smith to confirm that delivery is scheduled to meet our time-sensitive requirements.
• Working on change order #1 to Alliance Spacesystems, and change order #5 to US DOE.
• Submitted the MIT file to the auditors, as requested.  Working on the internal modification to move funds on MIT.

No report.

• Attended several workshops held at the Administrative Technology Center.  These workshops are being held to gather data from campus users of the Oracle Discoverer reporting tool on ways that this tool can be enhanced.  One of the additional benefits of these workshops is the sharing of information from other campus users as to how they track their financial information, specifically things like burn rates, projections and shadow systems.
• Attended a meeting with Carol Wilkinson and Thomas Frey regarding Advanced LIGO tracking.
• Submitted a Cost Transfer to transfer misclassified expenditure from the Livingston Atomic Clocks account to the RFI Remediation account.  Submitted a Cost Transfer for reclassify payment to MIT which had been charged to an incorrect Task Number.
• Completed and sent to Fred Raab and Mike Zucker, schedules of expenditures for FY03 for the *.8.1 and *.8.2 accounts for Hanford and Livingston, these schedules specifically identify the which expenditures had been transferred from the Construction Award.
• Responded to an inquiry from Dennis Coyne for clarification of the type of expenditures that can be included in fabrication accounts.  This was discussed at the Site Teleconference today and will be issued to LIGO employees.
• Responded to request from Project Accounting for funding realignments required for several LIGO accounts.

• Financial reports can be found at: http://docuserv.ligo.caltech.edu/~fireport

From: irena@ligo.caltech.edu (Irena Petrac)
LSC MOUs / Attachment Updates and Prog. Reports ACIGA:

• The NSF has approved the two advanced research optical contracts, one with SMA-VIRGO and one with CSIRO.  The contracts are being sent to the companies for signature.
• A statement of work for the EPI piping effort has been approved for a requst for proposal from Excel to perform only the labor.  LIGO staff at LLO will procure and furnish all of the material for installation.

SUPPORT (Baldon, Lloyd, Tischler)

>Irene Baldon

• Processed the paper work for nineteen (19) new/revised trips.  There are thirteen (13) trips in various stages of completion before ticketing can be done and/or paper work completed.  I continue to work closely with Terry Gunter and LIGO/Hanford personnel in acquainting them with travel procedures, etc.  I will continued to close out existing LHO trips and/or assisting where necessary.  I processed and reconciled travel started on Ryan Tischler's P-Card while I was on vacation.
• Completed twelve (12) Expense Reports and there are twenty-six (26) reports yet to be done.  I continue to contact travelers who have outstanding Expense Reports (more than one (1) month old) to ask for their cooperation in sending me their receipts so that these can be closed in a timely manner.  Presently there are five (5) reports more than 30 days old.
• Reconciled twenty-one (21) P-Card items which required numerous phone calls to hotels, car rentals, etc., in order to track down which traveler incurred which charge; and the pulling of each traveler's file to assure that charges are correct for each fee incurred.  There were one-hundred-twenty-three (123) for the entire month.  Also opened/closed/reconciled one (1) each for two (2) LIGO travelers who were out of town and unable to enter their P-Card program.
• I continued to cover the Project Office, Barry Barish's and Donna Tomlinson's Office when called upon.  Worked on the preparation and distribution of the Travel/Vacation Itinerary for December 15, 2003.  Arranged fifteen (15) new or revised teleconferences and three (3) new reservation on the LIGO Calendar.

• Processed the usual invoices for payment. Tracked and followed up on invoice problems.
• Reviewed and recorded payments processed by Esther the week of December 8.Processed the usual requisitions, change orders and payment requests.
• Continue to monitor contract and blanket order encumbrance and notify task managers when supplements are needed.
• Jim continued with data entry in the LIGO database and helping out in the DCC.

• Finalizing the FastLane entry of the Ffinal Report for LIGO Advanced R&D (PHY-9801158)
• PMA renovation report

ADVANCED LIGO (Cost Schedule Control Systems) T. Frey
From: Thomas Frey <tfrey@ligo.caltech.edu>

For list of documents that are being used to develop Adv. LIGO Cost and Schedule, see http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~tfrey/Cost_MTG_082002/
 

Continued development of a proposal for implementing Primavera Project Planner Enterprise.

Continue working on draft / text of implementation.
Clink on links to view the Draft Work-plan and Estimate.
Recap notes from my attendance at the Primavera's User Conference are at http://ligo.caltech.edu/~tfrey/p3conf03/p3conf03_recap.htm.  I will leave this up and available for the next 4 weeks.

The following is a summary of status by sub system:
COC - Still need completed WBS dictionary and BOE.  Will input and post a minor change to the COC schedule..
http://ligo.caltech.edu/~tfrey/COC_AdvLIGO/COC_index.html
PSL -  No action items pending.  Will attend a meeting scheduled for Friday the 19th at 8:30am.
http://ligo.caltech.edu/~tfrey/PSL_AdvLIGO/PSL_index.html
AOS - Still need completed WBS dictionary and BOE.

IO -  Still need completed WBS dictionary and BOE.  Received schedule changes / progress data from Dave.  Review in progress and will discuss with Dave via phone tomorrow.

http://ligo.caltech.edu/~tfrey/IO_AdvLIGO/IO_index.html
SUS - No action items pending.  Input changes to the SUS schedule / added requested milestones.  Working with Janeen, Jay, and Helena to input changes to the cost estimate.
http://ligo.caltech.edu/~tfrey/SUS_AdvLIGO/SUS_index.html
SEI - Schedule changes are pending per our meeting of November 12.  Received changes to the schedule from Larry.  Will start input ASAP.
http://ligo.caltech.edu/~tfrey/SEI_AdvLIGO/SEI_index.html
ISC - Still need completed WBS dictionary and BOE.

LDAS - No action required at this point in time.

INSTALL - No action items pending.

DAQ - No action required at this point in time.

PM - No action required at this point in time.

FAC - No action required at this point in time.

SUP - No action required at this point in time.

ROSTER DATABASE:
Continued input of changes / corrections regarding supervisors and departments.

Issued final revisions to the Authorship list.

COST BOOK DATABASE:
Reconciling cost account listing from cost book and schedule loading.

Met with Florence Kaufman, Carol, and Phil to discuss current process for data collection of actual costs.

Project Web Site for posting schedule and progress related data continues to be updated with the latest and greatest.

See http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~tfrey/index.html

A draft final report for the Advanced R&D Grant (PHY-980158) was distributed for comment and suggestions.  Comments received have been incorporated (thanks!), and the final document has been provided to Ryan for entry into FastLane.  Hopefully this is the final hurdle before the NSF can provide us with our FY 2004 funding.

Scrubbing of the FY 2004 Operating budgets continues.

The following change requests are open.

CR-030015	FY 2003 Livingston Observatory Detector Maintenance Expenses (Increment)	R. Wooley	July 14, 2003
CR-030016	Hanford Facilities 2.2--Divide the Large Equipment Access to Facilitate Movement of Large Items (currently assigned to FY 2004 liens list)	J. Worden	July 31, 2003

From: Cindy Akutagawa <cindy@ligo.caltech.edu>

• Various personnel/payroll /HR related work.  There was a staffing meeting on December 15, 2003.

Quality/Safety (Tyler)

• The laser safety audits of the LIGO campus labs (with exception of the 40M) were completed this week. There were no serious safety or work issues/concerns noted.  The LIGO personnel involved with these labs should be congratulated for good work !
• The labs that "scored" poorly during the last audit because of clutter and crowded/unsafe work space were found to have corrected/eliminated the problems. All of the labs exhibited good to excellent organization and cleanliness and are observing/practicing appropriate safety procedures.

LIGO Hanford Observatory (LHO) and Interferometer Operations (Raab)

LIGO Livingston Observatory (LLO) and Interferometer Operations (Zucker)

no report

Detector/Technical Support (Coyne)

40 Meter Interferometer (Weinstein)

• Commissioning (Miyakawa, Kawamura, Sakura):
• After some effort, Osamu and Seiji have managed to get the ETMX and ETMY coil dewhitening filters turned on after aquiring lock, without losing lock. This required several changes: (a) when turning on the hardware dewhitening, the software inverse dewhitening gets turned on at the same time. That software (digital) filter was being turned on with "Zero history" instead of "always on", so there was an initial impulse which would kick the mirror, causing lock loss. They changed it to "always on", fixing that problem. (b) The feedback signal has large peaks at 3-5 kHz and 300-500 Hz, origin unknown. (They will trace these upstream to see where they come from). The 3-5 kHz oscillation was saturating the coil driver DACs. To reduce the effect of these peaks, they adjusted the filters, reducing the UGF from 300 Hz to ~100 Hz, adding more phase margin at 300 Hz, and reducing the LPF corner frequency. (c) They put in notch filters to eliminate the feedback at the peaks at 300-500 Hz.
• After all this, they were able to switch on the ETM coil dewhitening filters (and digital inverse filters) without losing lock. They saw 30 dB of noise reduction in AS_Q from 40-300 Hz.
• Next big effort is to mode match the beam into the arms. Our in-vac mode matching telescope uses fixed mirrors with a stepping motor for focus. When we adjust the MMT, the beam is steered. So, we need to complete the setup of the QPDs that monitor the initial pointing position and angle of the beam (after the MMT but before the IFO) to correct for this using the in-vac PZT steering mirrors. And, we are setting up remote control of these PZT steering mirrors. Osamu and Seiji are working out methods for sensing mode mismatch using reflected light through an iris to sense the TEM00 mode, as the MMT is stepped through its range. Osamu's first attempt to make this work failed, presumably due to the ringing of the reflected light power due to doppler effects. Seiji is developing another scheme using the Michelson which should be immune to this effect.
• Seiji and Shihori checked one aspect of the displacement calibration: is the BW reported by dtt right? It is.
• Electronics (B. Abbott, Heefner, Taylor, Nocera, Mageswaran)
• Jay has been debugging the electronics readout of the QPDs that were set up by Steve. He found a bad 3113 and has replaced it.
• Jay began the tuning of an LSC PD for 99MHz operation. I t is proving to be difficult due to parasitics in the circuitry. An I&Q demod board is also being tuned for 99MHz operation.
• Bob is running cables for the remote control of the mechanical shutters for the input beam from the PSL and the output beams for MCR, SP, and AP.
• Jay will set up an EPICS channel that can be used to shut the mechanical shutter at the PSL periscope if the vacuum pressure rises above some level.
• Bob is running cables for slow EPICS control of the PZT steering mirrors.
• Steve set up a ccd camera to provide a wide view of the entire PSL table.
• Bob has run the last of the cables for the ccd cameras that view all the optics and all the beams (and the PSL table).
• We are following with interest the discussions in the CDS group about (a) placing multiple RF sidebands with one EOM. (b) Progress with the PSL ISS at LLO. (c) The ASI servo at LHO. (d) Servoing the beams onto the photodiodes on the ISC tables.
• The STACIS system still is down, awaiting some attention.
• PSL (Miyakawa, Kawamura, Abbott, Nocera):
• The power from the PSL was observed to drop by a factor of 2 on 12/4. After much investigation, Osamu discovered that it was mode-hopping. He adjusted the FSS slow loop (temperature servo) DC offset until the laser re-locked onto the correct mode, and the power came back up.
• The PSL ISS system is disabled until Flavio investigates the dynamic range problem.
• Optical sensing (Smith, Kawazoe):
• Steve completed the instumentation of the POX and POY beamlines as well as the TRX and TRY, and is now turning to the initial pointing position QPD, and then the QPDs and cameras at the SP and AP.
• Fumiko has made great progress in establishing the sensitivity of the oplevs to the motion of the suspended optics, and also the laser pointing jitter noise. She will soon be able to turn to implementing the oplev damping servos.
• South Annex Bake Ovens (Taylor):
• Bob continues to work on cleaning the bake ovens and attempting to each the cleanliness levels required for AdvLIGO.
• Several of Bob's bake ovens have RGA heads that are 15-20 years old and are starting to fail. He will purchase a new one.
• There was a fire alarm test at the lab, and the alarm could not be heard in the south cleanroom in the south annex. Steve will follow up.

Thermal Noise Interferometer (Libbrecht)

This week we finished reinstalling the fused-silica masses in the South
Arm Cavity. We recovered good visibility in all three cavities, with
NAC and SAC being matched at about 70%, and the mode cleaner showing
76%. We also began looking in to ways to reduce the electronic noise of
the photodetectors.

LASTI (Ottaway)

no report

Data Analysis and Computing (Lazzarini)

Simulation and Modeling (Bhawal)
Radiation pressure
--------------------
Hiro started more systematic study of the effect of the radiation
pressure with ASC and LSC attached.
( The result of the preliminary analysis was presented at Hannover. )
 

SimLIGO
---------------
 Xiao studied the effect of the displacement of the arm cavity axis. The
 result seems to indicate that there is some problem of the SimLIGO /
 modeler simulating the displacement effect. Hiro is looking into this
 issue.
 

Code development and maintenance
----------------------------------
(Melody)  C++ FUNC:
 Working on enhancing the digital_filter class to be used easier in the new
 FUNC modules.
 

LIGO Data Analysis System
 

Software Systems (Blackburn)
Completed extension of -framequery expansion to include
special cases described in problem reports #2225 and #2161.
 

Fixed bug in diskcache API (PR #2243) which caused metadata
for renamed frame files to persist indefinitely.
 

Worked with to define new C++ layer functions needed in support
of the TCL layer for the diskCacheAPI.
 

Worked on modifying LDAS to work with the latest versions of
automake, autoconf, and libtools. Work still needs to be done to
verify that these changes are backwards compatible with our
current set of these tools.
 

Worked on modifying FrVerify to optionally check the
dataValid field of the FrAdcData structure.
 

Continued efforts to have both a debug and a non-debug
version of the STLport library concurrent in /ldcg.
 

Working on directories hash in C++ layer. Implemented thread-safe
recursive class that collects metadata (frame files and subdirectories)
for a single directory. The same class will cause global hash map update
with found new data (not implemented yet). Removing symbolic link
support from already implemented classes that was serving as a reference
counter for a single directory.
 

Worked on ldaspassword CGI script to fixed problem reported by Kent:
#2241 ldaspassword.cgi script allowed existing user in cgi database
to apply for a new account.
 

Prepared the new database table viewer support in the controlMonitorAPI
for inclusion in CVS. This required fixing up several minor issues with
the histogramming plots and changing the makefiles.
 

Improved the data recieve TCL routines in the genericAPI. This has fixed
the issues seen in the threaded calls in the eventMonitorAPI.
 

Modified the RDS-loop test script so that it only sends jobs to the
system it is running on.  This is prevents the script from cleaning the
local database and sending jobs to a remote system.
 

Modified the dtcheck test script so that it better handles
floating-point values.
 

Ran frame tests on ldasbox3 and ldas-dev to test the new framequery
code.  Plan to continue sending different queries today to see if
there is some combination that doesn't work.
 

Ran burst "walking" scripts on ldas-test.  Many jobs failed due to
not finding frame files. This was legitimate as Stuart was restoring
parts of the filesystem.  Will repeat the tests now that frame files
have been restored.
 

Held meeting with Ed Maros, Albert Lazzarini, Stuart Anderson and
Kent Blackburn to kick off the TCL-Globus development. This is a task
under the new ITR2003 grant.
 

Hardware Systems (Anderson)
Caltech
-------
(Dan Kozak)
* Worked with Igor to solve tape drive problems at LLO.
* Successfully restored metadata for S3 L1 data from LHO/LLO at LLO/LHO
  respectively.
* Untarring E1-6 LHO data from HPSS into /archive.  E1 & E3 are done.
  E2 is done but requires some validation before it's complete.  E4 is
  being checked right now.
* Worked on getting permanent SAM-QFS licenses for the dataservers with
  tape robots.  So far we have licenses that look right for LHO/LLO and
  are going another round with Sun vis a vis the CIT license.
* Adjusted high/low water marks for /archive filesystem so we can
  effectively use more disk space.
 

(Hari Pulapaka)
* Setup a test NIS installation on a small portion of the cluster. Ran
  condor on the machines and verified the NIS has not caused any conflicts
  with Condor. Moving towards installing NIS on the entire cluster.
* Tested VDT 1.1.12 and discovered a bug in its installation which I
  have reported to the VDT team.
* Added some more user id's to access the condor head node.
* Updated the LDR installation at CIT and at the sites.
 

(Al Wilson)
* Updated 3Ware Bios and tw_cli for the datacachetest system. This system has
  also been configured to run test for condor.
* Replaced motherboards for ldasbox1,2 These replacements are because we got
  the replacements for the bad one that we ordered.
* Installed memory in node41 on the CIT system. It is currently running
  "memtest"
 

(Stuart Anderson)
* Finished rebuilding and restoring data to 2 IDE-RAID servers that each
  had one RAID filesystem running in degraded mode but where unable to
  rebuild until 2 drives where replaced (hence the need to restore data).
* Helped optimize the use of the 10 tape drives in the Caltech SAM-QFS
  filesystem by studying usage patterns and tuning filesystem parameters
  and educating users (especially myself).
* Obtained a quote for a 3 new dual-Xeon servers for Grid computing
  at Caltech.
* Cleaned up/updated a few software packages in /ldcg.
 

MIT
---
(Keith Bayer)
* Moved last rack of Beowulf nodes to within cable distance of Ethernet switch.
* Connected last 22 remaining nodes to switch and power.
 

Livingston
----------
(Igor Yakushin)
* u1d6@t3-11 failed. It was automatically replaced by a hot spare
  (it is the first time that the drive failed after T3s@LLO
  were reconfigured with a hot spare so it is nice to know that it
  actually works).
  Got a new drive from SUN and replaced the failed one. Arlo Ruiz from SUN
  recommends to upgrade disk firmware.
* Approximately once or twice per week we get a tape drive in the robot
  that stops behaving and one has to stop data archiving and staging, stop
  samd, open the robot, remove the tape from a drive, restart samd,
  restart archiving and staging and reimport the tape. The cause is
  unknown. It happens at both sites and to any tape drive.
 

Hanford
-------
(Greg Mendell)
* Created an RDS for the University of Rochester group on a 12 hour
  science mode stretch of S3 H1 data, as per their MOU, to study the band
  near 37 kHz.  The RDS frames contain
  H1:LSC-AS_1FSR, H1:IFO-SV_STATE_VECTOR, and H1:LSC-AS_Q and are located
  on fortress in /frame40/S3RochesterRDS/H-RDS_R_L1-7552.  This data will
  be transferred to the University of Rochester so that they can prototype
  their analysis.
 

(Ben Johnson)
* Continuing work on the data corruption problem. I have run tests on
  the dataValid flags and 2000+ "integer" channels on the 7554* gps times
  (approx. 1 day of data). about 25% of the "integer" channels showed
  glitches during that time.
* The SAMFS "MEDIA ERROR" correction script is running hourly at LHO.
  So far it has had only one tape to unmark, HL0370.
* I have run sfind -release_n on /samraw and /samrds. S3 L3 RDS data is
  pinned to disk under /samrds. Some S3 MDC data is pinned under /samraw.
* I have set up t3-26 with a hot-spare and mounted it on the
  oldmetaserver. I am running daily backups of Igor's backups to
  /ldas_outgoing/DB2Backups
 

Data Analysis Activities (Lazzarini)
Mendell:
Driver code, basic scripts, and simple test data, for building and
testing stackslide executables that will run under Condor and the Grid
have been checked into the lscdocs/pulgroup cvs repository under
stackslide/dev.  This is the location for code that is "under
development." Major releases of the code will be checked into LAL and
LALapps.  I have obtained grid credentials and I am starting to write
scripts to drive Condor jobs.  We are continuing to work on test data to
debug the code.  The next step is to produce output on the S2/E10/S3
injection data to refine the algorithm for finding significant peaks.
 

Shawhan:
* Settled on a veto condition for the S2 inspiral analysis
* Did a lot more review and code validation for the externally-triggered
burst analysis for GRB030329
* Reviewed drafts of several GWDAW presentations
* Currently attending GWDAW
 

Yakushin:
1) Debugging line removal algorithm in waveburst.
2) Implementing in waveburst more precise algorithm for estimation of central time and frequency of detected events.
3) Taking scimon shifts most of this week (Tuesday-Friday).
 

General Computing (Wallace)
MIT:
(Keith)
-Troubleshot / swapped memory in cds sb100 machine
-Started matlab 2004 license ordering process
-Ordered spare computer parts etc
-Working on disksuite mirroring utility on Solaris 9
-Looking into SMTP authentication in sendmail
 

Livingston:
(Larry for Shannon)
-Received notice that BellSouth has started fiber termination for the GigE
connection. A. Sibley and Larry W. are contacting LSU to check on where things
are at while Shannon is away.
-Shannon has been getting information for the PIX upgrade needed to handle the
GigE connection.
 

Hanford:
(Christine)
- Lots of user support to generate web pages and set up e-mail software.
- User support for a Win2k End task problem.
- Attending a Win2k networking course on Thurs. and Fri.
- Investigating the purchase of memory sticks.
- Modified the network access list to allow more CIT Ligo ip addresses
access to the TRINET computer.
- Created a new user account.
 

CIT:
(Lisa)
- Covering for Shannon this week in Livingston.
- Continued monitoring of the mail servers.
- Demo'd Sun's Java Desktop.
 

(Mike)
-Worked up in W/B SCR rerouted some video & network cables. I also added
some additional video cables. I then tested out the projector and VRVS
system to insure that both systems were working with the new configurations.
-Working a lot with Solid Works this week. This included upgrading our
PDMWorks server to 2004. I also worked on our Solid Works user workstations
upgrading the client side for PDMWorks to 2004.
-Troubleshot a problem for Sander Liu in regards to Protel software. He
is using the older version of Protel and was having problems saving
drawings as a .sch schematic format. For some reason the .sch option is no
longer an option. I went into the file extensions on the windows side and
found the .sch extension. After I found that out I tried renaming the file
and it worked.
-Worked on a networking problem that Biplab was having. Plus he needed an
additional network connection in his cubical.
-Loaded a laptop for the loaner pool that is to be loaned to Biplap. This
was a win98 install that has been wiped cleaned and reloaded to win 2000
pro/GC software loaded on this laptop.
-Worked in the server room identifying some network cables that were not
labeled and then tagging them for future troubleshooting.
-We had a problem with the modem pool; no one could connect. I ended up
power cycling the units. This seems to have fixed the problem.
-Ghosted one of our sysadmin laptops. We loaned this laptop out loaded with
XP to Ben Abbott. This laptop has been returned and I have restored this
unit back to our sysadmin configuration.
-Worked up in the ECR W/B troubleshooting a networking problem. This was a
bad patch cable connected to the patch panel to one of the network
switches, located in the closet.
I corrected all connections and everything seems to be running fine for now.
-I took a look at all the NTSRV's going through and cleaning up any system
errors everything seems to be ok for now. I found that one of the servers
is just about out of disk space. I will need to add an additional hard
drive to this server. Larry Wallace has put in an order for me.
 

(Veronica)
- LIGO website: Setting up VRVS webcast for today's seminar. Updated the
webpage at the LIGO home page about the upcoming seminars. Posted the
files for preview. Updated other pages throughout the website.
Working with George Stokes and the rest of General Computing on the
makeover of the LIGO DCC.
Posted updates to the Aspen 2004 Conference website.
LIGO media server is running out of HD space. Some source files need to be
transferred on DVDs. Raw avi sources are the largest and may be stored as
DV tapes and recaptured as needed; their compressed versions will remain
on the server.
- LSC website: Posted updates to various pages, 'LSC Documents' and
'Employment' among them.
- CaJAGWR website: Updated the website and provided user support.
 

(Bruce)
* (BS) Systems Work:                                    (5.0 days)
    - Ilog upgrade to implement new edit and preview features.
 

(Larry)
-Reworked a number of accounts. Most were accounts that needed their expiration
date extended. Also, had a couple of people needing their accounts restarted so
they could work with the LDAS group.
-Went through a number of purchases. Upgrading a number of laptops but as
mentioned before all computer needs are going to be dealt with on a case by case
basis.
Placed orders for more network equipment. It is a good thing we have room to
expand because it is getting used.
Renewed a number of s/w licenses.
Getting quotes for the printer replacements that we need in different locations.
-Fixed the WB third floor edge switch. However, it looks like it may have been a
fiber problem and just not the edge switch. I found one of the fibers had been
pinched. We are working on a way to rearrange things in the closet so when
others get into it they don't damage our equipment.
-Worked with Mike on a number of cable cleanup items.
-Worked with each LIGO location on different items.
 

Advanced LIGO and supporting R&D (Shoemaker)

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