Weekly Report for Week Ending October 12, 2006

Past Weekly Reports

There will be no LIGO Executive Committee scheduled Monday, October 16, 2006. 

The next Executive Committee Meeting will be scheduled Monday, October 30, 2006.

Special Announcements: There will be a dry run of the NSF presentations starting at 0800 in the SCR on Monday 16 October.

Weekly Report Highlights: SEC pendula ... installed and in motion

LSC Issues (Saulson)

The GEO Collaboration held one of its regular meetings in Glasgow this past week. One session was devoted to planning for a possible commissioning break in GEO's S5 participation. There was substantial input from LIGO and the LSC in this session.  Marialessandra Papa, Chair of the LSC Analysis Committee, presented a report explaining how GEO data is used in LSC searches to date, and suggesting what level of performance improvement would be required to make it more useful.  GEO's Hartmut Grote described the various issues that might be addressed during a commissioning break, laying out the hoped-for benefits, the required resources (mainly labor and time) and the risks.  Fred Raab, Chair of the LIGO/LSC Operations Committee, shared the experience from LIGO commissioning and offered suggestions.  Also participating by phone were Jay Marx, Albert Lazzarini, Stan Whitcomb, and Peter Saulson.

On Tuesday, a telephone meeting was held between Benoit Mours of Virgo and the LIGO Directorate, along with Marialessandra Papa and Andrea Vicere, the LSC and Virgo  Analysis Chairs.  We discussed the proposed draft of the MOU Attachment.  There appear to be only a few small issues that remain to be resolved.

LIGO Laboratory Administration (Lindquist)

STATUS OF LSC MOUs (Lloyd)

• No report.

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT (Luna)

• Provided assistance to the Soft Seismic Group (R. DeSalvo) with packing, shipping, and the preparation of a Commercial Invoice for US Customs clearance of  a container of cycom resin to the Dipartimento di Fisica "Enrico Fermi" in Italy.
• Assisted the CDS group (R. Borke) with packing, shipping, and the preparation of a Commercial Invoice for US Customs clearance of  two CDS Subsystems to the Max Plank Institute for Gravitational Waves in Germany.(B. Willke). 
• Working on replacing three GSA vehicles @ LLO.
• Working with Property Services on year end reports for Government-Owned property and leased GSA vehicles.

FINANCIAL SYSTEMS (Funaro, Brambila, Kaufman)

>From: "Funaro, Catherine" <Catherine.Funaro@caltech.edu>

• For ACCOUNTS PAYABLE HISTORY DATA Press Here.

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

• Issued an administrative change order to correct a computer order.
• Completed change order #2 to Yamilet Gardens for the beam tube cleaning at LHO.
• Completed the administrative change on the funding for the Louisiana Office Supply order.
• Completed the close out of the subcontract with the University of Oregon .
• Completed change order #4 to Galli and Morelli and submitted to vendor.
• Completed change order #32 to Galli and Morelli for the no-cost extension and submitted to vendor.
• Working on the change order to Star Services.

>From: Florence Kaufman <fkaufman>

• Notified Criselda Rodriguez-Brodeur of the error in application of Use Tax on purchases in the Outreach Award for September 2006.  The Use Tax has now been reversed.  Will need to do a review to see if there are other instances where Use Taxes have been improperly applied.
• Worked on the report for the Visitor Program for September 2006.
• New accounts have now been set up LIGO.TEC/1.3.1, LIGO.TEC/1.3.2, LIGO.DET/1.4.1 and LIGO.DET/1.4.2.  Will be working on setting up other new accounts required for R&D activities this afternoon.  Revised account list will be posted on the Internal Bulletin Board as soon as the accounts have been set up.
• Attended another meeting trying to resolve billing issues with Northrup Grummann.
• Worked on revising template for monthly report because of changes in account structure.
• Financial reports can be found at: http://docuserv.ligo.caltech.edu/~fireport. (For passwords contact Florence)

SUBCONTRACTS MANAGEMENT (Jasnow, Salone)

>From: Gina Salone <gsalone@ligo.caltech.edu>

• A contract was awarded to the R.J. Booty Construction Company for the paving of the east parking lot at LLO.  This will provide additional parking for the SEC, scheduled to open on November 13.

>From: Ed Jasnow <jasnow@ligo.caltech.edu>

• A pre-proposal teleconference was held on Tuesday, October 10, for the engineering design and fabrication of the Advanced LIGO HAM seismic isolation system.  Three potential contractors participated and asked several questions regarding the RFP.  These questions were answered by LIGO staff on the review committee.

PROPOSALS and REPORTS (Lindquist)

We submitted the annual Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) data via FastLane this week.

CHANGE CONTROL/CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT (Lindquist)

• There are no open change requests.

HUMAN RESOURCES (Akutagawa)

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

• A Staffing Committee meeting was held on Monday, October 9th.  The minutes and action items are in progress and when completed will be posted on the SC web page.  All files for the Staffing Committee are up-to-date and posted on the SC web page

Quality/Safety ( Tyler )

>From: Bill Tyler tyler@ligo.caltech.edu

Nothing significant to report this week.

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

Summary of S5 Activities at LIGO Hanford Observatory (compiled by K. Kawabe)

Emergency week for LHO (still ongoing). Since Tuesday H2 got worse to the point where we cannot run it at all. We've been trying to fix H2 even if H1 is taken out of science mode because of that during the day, and run only H1 during the night.

Duty cycle (Thu Oct/5 to Wed Oct/11) was 81 percent for H1 and 53 percent for H2.

Range and Duty Cycle update is here.

H2's problems:

• Just before the Tuesday maintainance, after one lock loss H2 developed a big noise hump, and the binary range dropped to 2Mpc. We're still investigating the cause of this.
• After Tuesday maintenance (and after many "bootfests") H2 MX CPU load (among other things) got worse and worse to the point where H2 cannot operate at all. It seems that at least some of the problems were already solved on Friday, but we'll have to see.

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

  L1 in S5 (O'Reilly)
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We had a fairly good week with a cumulative duty factor of around 70%. Work on the Science Education Center Kinetic Pendulum Wall
had the most impact on our duty factor. This work is now winding down, the pendula have all been installed. The last heavy construction
work will be paving the parking lot on Oct. 24th-26th with extra rain days if needed.

Elog highlights include an entry by Rich Abbott on October the 10th giving a coroners report on our LOS bias modules and a nice analysis
by Dan Hoak on October 9th of spectrograms created by Rejean Dupuis. This last entry identifies several artifacts which we may be able to
mitigate during commissioning breaks.

The week was dominated by an hourly glitch (occuring at around one minute past the hour), which caused a drop in the Inspiral Range of
about 2 Mpc and showed clearly in the noise curve in the upconversion region. At the Wednesday meeting Dave Barker pointed out that
the timing was suspiciously close to the hourly autoburt snapshot. Changing this cron job to run every three hours instead of every hour
showed this to indeed be the proximate cause, although the mechanism is still not understood. It is interesting that the noise curve mimics
the upconversion noise during this glitch. Perhaps it is part of our noise floor?

Unfortunately we had already decided to try a system reboot before discovering this (seen in KleineWelle plots by Lisa G.), and LLO1
which mounts the /cvs filesystem did not come back up. This required extensive debugging and repair, see Oct. 13th elogs for details.

Safety and Security (Riesen)
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A IR scan of the PSL showed no stray beams.
No site/laser safety concerns found during this weeks site rounds.

LLO Outreach (Thacker)
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Continued preps for LSTA Conference in Shreveport, LA
Installed new exhibits into SEC
Sent Opening Event News Releases to local radio stations
Contacted local TV stations concerning Opening Event
Continued development of November outreach programs
Identified additonal local school superintendents for Opening Event invitations
Uploaded new material to SEC website


LLO Mech Engineering (Romie)
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*LIGO SEC Kinetic Art Project*
Over half of the pendulum assemblies have been installed, along with
their locking mechanisms and winches. The last three pendulum assemblies
are being put together this afternoon. I am chasing small glitches,
although all has gone relatively smoothly so far. Jonas Waterman from
HPD visited us Friday and Monday and worked with the Superior Steel
workers on Monday on the installation of the first section. His help was
greatly appreciated.

##MZ UPDATE: The exhibit is now completely installed and operational. Superior
Steel is doing some finish work (moving light fixtures, touch up painting) and
will be off site by Tuesday. HPD is helping us optimize bearing preloads
and the visitor drive mechanism (bell ropes).

For a picture (taken with NO WIND) see http://tinyurl.com/y4qyyv

L1 CDS (Bogue)
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- CDS had a hardware error on the raid that houses the main cds
filesystem. I pulled an old sun D1000 device off of fb0. This device
was slated to be removed from fb0 because all of the data had been moved
to the 3511 back in march. It will be used to hold the filesystem until
I can diagnose the other hardware thoroughly and build a replacement.
- Worked on a half dozen perl scripts to do mostly maintenance tasks.
One of the scripts is designed to replace a faulty mode cleaner csh script.
- Cleaning up the archived FOM's.
- RMA'd a vmivme 7851

LIGO computing and network security (Roddy)
Reported under General Computing, see below.

General computing and LDAS admin (Giardina)
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Reported under General Computing, see below

Reported under LDAS System Administration, see below

Data analysis (Yakushin)
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Storage/Condor/LDAS admin:
Reported under LDAS System Administration, see below

Data analysis:

Reported under Data Analysis activities, see below

Mechanical and Optical Systems (Coyne)

See Advanced LIGO

Controls and Data Systems (Bork)

See Advanced LIGO

40-Meter Interferometer (Weinstein)

• We have two new Aussie visitors, Kirk McKenzie and Bram Slagmolen. Please make them welcome! Steve gave them a safety walkthrough, and they have had their entrance eye exam.
• Final reports and talks from our five summer SURF/REU students are now posted on the 40m web site.
• DC detection:
  • We ended our vent last Thursday and Steve began the pumpdown Thursday morning. The pumpdown proceeded without incident, was complete by the end of the day, and the mode cleaner was locked by Thursday evening.
  • After the vent, Rob, Sam and Valera reestablished MC lock and lock of both arms. With the michelson on the bright fringe, they sent light into the OMC and saw fringes as well as signals on the DC photodiodes. So, to very lowest order, the DC readout beamline is operative.
  • To take the next step, we need the digital controls for the OMC and steering PZTs. Ben and Rich report that the remaining electronics modules (the OMC and tip-tilt PZT driver boards and the QPD whitening board) should be ready next week. Commissioning will then begin in earnest. Rob has written up a commissioning plan in the Wiki.
  • Alex has plugged in the DC readout controller computer into the reflective memory loop, configured data acquisition channels for it, and the new frame builder code was started. Still to do: install 32KHz DTT, dataviewer software. However, these changes seem to have broken ezlockin, which uses NDS.
  • Ben's testing on the QPD Whitening Interface board went fine. He is going to use the results to write the test procedure for future boards.
  • The front and back panels for the QPD Whitening chassis should be here by the end of this week, whereupon Ben will assemble and deliver the unit to the 40m.
  • Rich received all boards back from the stuffing house for the OMC PZT driver and Tip/Tilt driver. Have tested most of the OMC length board and it performs well at 300 volts peak-to-peak so far. Still need to test the more complex Tip/Tilt board.
  • Bob has been building and running cables for the DC readout controls and mounting equipment in racks.
  • Our DC photodiode electronics nipple is leaking. We had filled it with krypton, which shows up clearly in the RGA. The preamp PCB is supported mechanically by the vacuum feedthroughs, and we figure it put too much stress on the feedthroughs, causing the leak. Valera calculates that it will take around a year for all the krypton will leak out; we'll fix it long before then. Bob has ordered a new vacuum nipple and feedthroughs, and we are thinking about a redesign of the DC PD mount and in-vac electronics.
• Vacuum squeezing:
  • Go and Osamu have recalculated the predicted quantum noise floor for the dual-recycled Michelson, with and without squeezing.
  • The picomotor controlling the translation stage that inserts the squeezed vacuum into the interferometer is not behaving well; it seems to be whirring and it's shaking the MC, so the cables seem ok, but the stage is barely moving. Most likely, it is broken and will need to be fixed the next time we vent.
  • Go, Kirk and Nergis are working on the squeezing test plan, and are setting up a Wiki for the experiment.
• IFO commissioning, Electronics, controls, computers:
  • The OSEMs for the MC and other suspended optics were adjusted during the vent. Steve measured the inductance of all the coils, they all look fine. The sensors are all roughly in the middle of their range. so now Rana, Rob and Bram are adjusting the coil driver gains to minimize angle-to-length couplings.
  • The whole gang (Sam, Bram, Rob, Kirk, Valera, Rana) are adjusting camera views to figure out where the spots are on the MC mirrors. The evidence suggests that when the mirror suspensions are adjusted so that the resonant beam is hitting the center of each optic, the transmitted beam is far from getting through the downstream faraday isolator, and vice versa. They are working on some optimal compromise, until we vent again to move the mirror between the MC and the FI accordingly.
  • Archiving of trend frames and /cvs/cds stopped when fb40m was rebooted; it was restarted.
  • we have ordered new spare hard disks for the DAQ RAID array.
  • Our RGA works, and the IP connection allows us to read out the AMU spectrum. However, the CRT display (which is also used to control the RGA settings) broke a few months ago. Rob has been figuring out how to change the settings using the IP connection, and is making progress. Bob has a spare Dycor CRT and will see if it works.
• IFO modeling:
• Lab Infrastructure, Bake lab:
  • Steve will be on vacation this week and next, so Bob will be looking after the care and feeding of the 40m.
  • Bob is doing some Lab clean up for Monday's visit by the First Minister of Scotland.

Thermal Noise Interferometer (Black)

LASTI (Ottaway)

CIT Science Group (Weinstein)

  Igor Yakushin [igor@ligo-la.caltech.edu]

During the second day of the virtual burst f2f meeting presented:
a) the current status of incoherent waveburst S5 online analysis:
http://ldas-jobs.ligo-la.caltech.edu/~waveburst/S5_LIGO_ONLINE_2
b) coherent waveburst analysis of the same data:
http://ldas-jobs.ligo-la.caltech.edu/~waveburst/S5_100906
Sergey presented our work on coherent waveburst analysis of S5 LIGO-GEO
data: http://tier2.phys.ufl.edu/~klimenko/waveburst/S5/coherent/runS5b


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Kent Blackburn [kent@ligo.caltech.edu]

TclGlobus:

Worked on LDAS managerAPI core dump. Mary Lei suggested that
there is a possibility of closing Globus socket twice when
using persistent socket in the LDAS Tcl Layer.

OSG:

Running full-blown HIPE workflow at 2 OSG production clusters,
UCSD and PSU in bundle mode. Partition 1 has been completed at
both sites. Partition 2 has encountered some problems since
LDAS GWF repository is down for maintenance on Wed Oct 11, 2006.
Auto-restarts stop after 3 unsuccessful attempts. I will fix
this issue by adding partition field in the GUI for restarting
any partition.

Working with Michael Samidi and the Pegasus team, developed a
24 partition horizontal partition dax for testing the use of a
new horizontal partitioning technique to actively manage the
disk storage required for executing large S5 HIPE workflows on
OSG sites.Still coding and testing the cleanup of remote GWF
files using 24 partitions. The issue is I can't submit Globus
job using wild card filename substitution. This will be done
by submitting Condor job containing a list of GWF files that
will be removed since we don't want to submit individual Globus
job for each GWF file.

OSG Integration Testbed:

Upgraded LIGO-CIT-ITB to OSG-ITB release 0.5.1

Meyers chaired the weekly OSG ITB telecon this week.

OSG Development

Participated in DASWG Telcon for first time as the newly
formed OSG Project. Reported recent activities regarding
the running of the binary inspiral HIPE codes on OSG and
the development of the projects web page at the DASWG host.

Met with Shourov Chatterji of the Burst analysis group to
discuss requirements for guided and all-sky analyses under
development to ascertain implications for LIGO storage on
the OSG.

Assisted with the VDS and VDT team towards incorporating VDS
1.4.7 in VDT 1.5.1.

GRID Certificates and Accounts

As a result of two mistakes in two days for LDG account request
that involved incorrect user certificate subjects being posted
for inclusion in site grid-map-files, reviewed the instructions
at the PSU site and discovered that the previous instructions
for users on how to get there certificate subject line has been
replaced with a link to a website that has no information on the
procedure. Authors of the PSU site were immediately contacted
about this. They requested that this be addressed in this Friday's
LSC certificate working group meeting.

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Stephen Fairhurst [fairhurst_s@ligo.caltech.edu]

. Calibration review of h(t) generation code.
. Continued work on wrapping up S3/S4 inspiral searches,
including leading reviewers through the upper limit codes.
. Worked with Drew on the S5 BNS search
. Worked with Sukanta Bose on the coherent inspiral search.
. Moved closer to automation of followups of inspiral hardware
injections in S5.

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Eirini Messaritaki [emess@caltech.edu]

* Started writing the technical document on the S5(I) BBH search
* Started working on the inspiral NSF review talk
* Worked on generating the calibration frames for S5

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Gregory Mendell [gmendell@ligo-wa.caltech.edu]

I am continuing work on automating the fscan spectrogram code with
Rejean Dupuis and I am also continuing work on the S4 PowerFlux,
StackSlide, and Hough paper.

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Shourov Keith Chatterji [shourov@ligo.caltech.edu]

* Reported to the burst group on the status of the early S5 Q Pipeline
search.
The code base is stabilized and in CVS. Trigger production is complete
for
H1, H2, and L1 single detector triggers, H1H2 collocated triggers and
vetoes,
and simulated sinusoidal Gaussians injected into H1H2 and L1 data.

http://ldas-jobs.ligo.caltech.edu/~shourov/q/documentation/2006OCT10.html

* Investigating hourly glitches in L1


http://ldas-jobs.ligo.caltech.edu/~shourov/reports/20061011_L1_hourly_glitch
es/

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Duncan Brown [dbrown@ligo.caltech.edu]

- Worked on parameter estimation for IMRIs
- Working with Harald on understanding his waveforms
- Worked with Diego on PTF filtering code
- Discussed proposal for data quality segment management with Igor

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Xavier Siemens [siemens@caltech.edu]

- Finished up and code checked the cosmic string paper with Vuk, now
under LSC review.

- Time domain calibration review (was on 10/6)

- Re-ran S4 cosmic string search 4 times to look at effects of segment
boundaries

- Preparing for NSF review

- Prepared and gave third informal talk at Kip's Tapir meeting

- Started writing cosmic string S4 results paper

Laboratory Computing (Anderson)

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LDAS Software Systems (Maros)
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The unit tests for both sunopteron and linuxopteron passed for the first
time this week. Both of these systems are being configured as standalone
LDAS systems to run as many of the System Tests as possible.

LDAS is being enhanced to support grid-mapfile authentication as
described by problem report number 3042.

Nightly testing of LDAS resulted in the managerAPI core dumping when
tclglobus was used. Additional logging has been added to better
understand the cause of the problem.

System testing of LDAS was done using version 1.8.326 of the software.
All tests passed except for lsync.

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LDAS System Administration (Anderson)

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Caltech
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(Dan Kozak)
* Continued to keep an eye on archiving (particularly in /home) but it
hasn't gotten stuck/behind this week.
* Discovered a GEO RDS file that was failing LDR's md5sum check due to
bad metadata in the LDR database. Got the GEO types to fix it.
* Got RLS and gridftp-server to use the new certs in /etc/grid-security.
* Finished work on samtest (metadata fragmentation and stripe size
questions). Report to follow.
* Configured our test/spare T3 (t3-11) with EFI labels and was able to
get sunopteron to build and use a QFS filesystem on it.
* Sent boilerplate message to several users telling them how to find and
use data on the cluster nodes in preference to /archive/frames.
* Put code in the nightly samfsdump script (dodump) to prevent two dumps
of the same filesystem from running simultaneously.
* Patched (SAM-)QFS to 4.5.27 on ldas-cit & dataserver-cit
* Got new tape ingest script working that ingests multiple tapes in parallel
and does the RLS registration via bulk commands.
* Patched lscsoft-user-env.csh at CIT on ldas-grid, ldas-pcdev[12] and
the nodes to correctly set PYTHONPATH.

(Erik Espinoza)
* Put Sun Opteron test machine on GC network and created accounts for
test users.
* Worked with Sean@ASA for HD RMA.
* Worked with Phil to add pidslayer (orphan detection script) in logmon.
* Sent details to MIT Admin (Fred) to get kickstart on GC.
* Sent note to Ben about missing Wildcard for ldas.ligo-wa.caltech.edu.
* Planned and implemented CIT Cluster maintenance w/ Stuart
- Flashed BIOS & Settings
- Upgraded kernel on nodes
- Installed 64-bit lscsoft
- Installed Dual Rank Micron memory on previous Single Rank Samsung nodes

(Stuart Anderson)
* Upgraded SAM-QFS on test machines.
* Helped with LDAS-CIT cluster and SAM-QFS upgrade.
* Continuing to iterate on next disk and server quote.

MIT
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(Fred Donovan)
* Spoke with ASA computers re: pcraid 5.
* Got pcraid3 online - seems stable.
* ldas-pcdev1 keeps hanging on job by EK - set tcp timeout for 24 hours;
connection related?
* Restarted condor.

Livingston
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(Igor Yakushin)
* Discussed with Duncan, John and Keith the changes needed for the segment
database server and client;
* Looking into the problem with daily injection segment dumps reported by
Shourov: at least the first segment for a day appears to be wrong.

(Dwayne Giardina)
* Ejected tapes for shipment to CIT, imported and labeled replacements.
* Changes/additions to cluster_mon app.
* Followed Ben's instructions for adding LDAS scripts/services to
Solaris 10 SMF.

Hanford
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(Greg Mendell)
* Nothing but routine sys admin work to report for the past week. I do
plan to update the gap checking software to include h(t) and SFTs before
November.

(Ben Johnson)
* Received 10 node MBs. Successfully replaced MBs in two nodes so far;
they have not yet been kickstarted.
* Helped LLO get its first round of scripts to operate under SMF.
* Worked on improving performance of LDRdataFindServer + debugging
globus authentication issues.
* Copied more h(t) data to nodes (LLO and LHO data). Along with a bit
more L1. Disk space on the cluster is starting to get low.


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General Computing (Wallace)

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MIT:
(Fred)
-Built two ultra10 units for new students (solaris 10)
-Rebooted ligo mail server - automounts from tubera hung
-Set up matlab for a new student
-Installed swatch
-One more battery recall
-More fine-tuning nova (automounts, paths, etc)

Livingston:
(Dwayne)
-Additions/changes to database(s) on new MySQL server
-dns issues on operator PC, turned out to be problems associated with
SOA change and named config on bartholomew
-Configured a new WAP to replace one that was on its last leg
-Pulled new fiber bundles from CUR to MSR and from CUR to Communications
Room
-Created a GC account for an employee and set up their PC to be able to
upload web content to their directory
-Continued training our spam filter
-Other usual user requests and support

(Shannon)
* Worked on setting up a Sol 10 zone running apache and php. Turned out
to be quite a bit of trouble to support php5, so considering dumping it
and going with setting up another vhost on our existing web server.
* Worked with Dwayne pulling fiber.
* Still working with Boyd on the BGP issues. Most likely will not be
resolved at least until next week.
* Working on documentation. Systems and security related...
* Getting quotes for storage for backups. Will ask Bonnie to order.
* Following up on a missing ordered laptop from Dell.
* Set up VPNs for IDS boxes. Working well... Only issue is that snort
will crash if the link goes down. Need a script to monitor for this.
Solaris SMF equivalent on Linux would be nice.
* Renewed the Arkeia support/maint. contract.

Hanford:
(Christine)
- Larry pointed out that the Cisco 6500 switch has the same capabilities
as the 7600 router and is probably cheaper. I contacted the Cisco
engineer who confirmed that what Larry said is true and the switch is
about $5000.00 cheaper. I have started the quote process over again
with the three vendors to get quotes for the 6500 switch.
- Installed the latest versions of Prism and Primavera client on a
laptop for a new Advanced LIGO contractor.
- Finished setting up a new GC PC for the Control Room.
- Installed the latest version of Matlab on the application server and
on the "community" computers.
- Purchased Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop from Caltech ITS.
- einsteinsmessengers.org is still not working. Caltech ITS appears to
have entered it in their DNS tables, but is not propagating it. If I do
an nslookup using the Caltech DNS I find it. If I use any other DNS it
is unknown.

CIT:
(Christian)
-Worked with Mike and Larry in setting things up for a conference being
held in Millikan.
-Worked a number of printer issues.
-Worked with Larry in setting up some Parallels configurations for the
test MacPro.
-Performed backups on various machines.
-Worked on the spam filters checking for false positives.
-Tested out some of the new OS patches and checking on a couple of new
applications for Larry. So far no problem has been found with the patches.
-Misc. onsite user support.

(Mike)
-Did some research to replace our current Wireless Access Points, it
seems as though Proxim is our best route to go at this time. Larry has
purchase a few Proxim 4000 series to test out before we upgrade all our
current access points.
-Went back to work on a Sun workstation for the control room. This is an
on going project.
-Setup and monitored a conference for Barry Barish. Larry & Christian
gave me a hand with this as well.
-Backed up Barry's laptop.
-Continued work on Spam Filters searching for false positives.
-Other misc. user support.

(Veronica)
- LIGO: Most time was devoted to setting up and troubleshooting of the
new TAR form. Ongoing support/updates of the PAC and NSF Reviews
websites. LIGO website updates.
- LSC: Updates of the LSC-related mailing lists. Ongoing support of
the November meeting, website updates.
- CaJAGWR: User support.

(Bruce Sears)
-iLog Maintenance: (0.5 days)
Preparation of documentation for iLog administration and maintenance.
Standard maintenance (adding users, keywords, etc.)

(Larry)
-Spent a deal of time going through existing procurements. Made a few
new ones. Going through and getting Pcard information updated on old
procurements.
In the process of getting quotes for a few new items. Stuart will be
purchasing some of the new SUN equipment.
-Troubleshot a couple of the Solaris10 issues. One was a problem with
seeing the network properly.
-Troubleshot a number of Macintosh units this past week. Both new ones
and old ones. A couple were/are having h/w problems. The others were s/w
configuration issues. The number of requests to support the Mac units
has increased over the past few months.
-Worked a couple of printer issues for different users. Mainly, getting
out specialty prints.
-Got a little more work done on the 40M workstation. It looks like it
won't get wrapped up until after the NSF review.
-Worked a number of logistical issues in preparation for the NSF review.
-Worked with Veronica and others on different web items.
-Setup a number of s/w licenses(matlab, mathematica) for various users.
-Working with Christian and Mike on a central presentation
unit(computer). So far it appears to be working OK. The resolution on
the LINUX application is not as good as we would like.
-Started testing out a new Proxim wireless unit.
-Assisted the DCC with a variety of tasks. They still have a list of
items they need to finish up for them.
-Worked the spam filters. We are now blocking out over 10K messages a
day, which is up from a month ago, and yet there is still in increase in
the amount of spam getting through. This is a never ending battle.
-Setup a number of new user accounts and checked out a couple of users
that have left for their home institutions.
-Working multiple documents at this time. All related to the GC systems.

Advanced LIGO and Supporting R&D (Shoemaker)

Advanced LIGO Systems

M odeling and simulation (Bruce Sears for Hiro Yamamoto)

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