Special Announcements:
There will be no LIGO Executive Committee scheduled Monday, June 18, 2007 because there is a LIGO Staffing Committee meeting scheduled at that time.
Weekly Report Highlights:
The LIGO Laboratory PAC met on 14, 15 June. The Directorate thanks all those who took the time to travel to Caltech for the meeting, make clear and concise presentations, and answer the questions which the PAC had.
LSC Issues (Reitze)
Highlight:
The "News and Views" section of the latest edition of Nature featured the work of the LSC. In "Gravitational Waves Constrained", Michele Maggiore highlighted the recent S4 result on the stochastic background upper limit published in the Astrophysical Journal. The article discusses the significance of the result in the context of constraining pre-Big Bang cosmological models, and points out anticipated upper limits from Advanced LIGO will "allow us to penetrate deep into a totally unknown region, where the answers to fundamental questions could well be waiting." This article is yet another example of the fact the LSC is doing astrophysics, and it is something of which the Stochastic group in particular and the LSC in general can be very proud.
The article can be found on p651-652 of the 7 June edition and is available online at
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/eeSc0Spkds0HjB0BUjy0ED
Regular news:
Laura Cadonati was elected to the at-large seat of the LSC Executive Committee from a very strong slate of candidates, including Vicky Kalogera, Szabi Marka, and Mike Zucker.
A web site with information for the July 23-26 L-V meeting at MIT is available at http://www.ligo.org/conferences/lsc0707/. In addition to the main meeting and data analysis f2fs, there will be a workshop on charging on July 26 and 27.
LIGO Laboratory Administration (Lindquist)
STATUS OF LSC MOUs (Lloyd)
Listed below are the 2006 MOUs that have been completed and accepted by LIGO. These will complete the 2006 review.
MOU |
Attachments |
ACIGA |
ACF, DAT, LAS, OPS, OPT, SUS, Z |
Balearic |
DAT, Z |
Carleton |
DAT, OPS, OUT, Z |
CaRT |
ACF, DAT, OPT, Z |
Columbia |
DAT, OPS, OUT, Z |
Embry-Riddle |
OPT, OPS, Z |
Florida |
ACF, DAT, OPS, OPT, OUT, Z |
GEO600 |
ACF, DAT, LAS, OPT, SUS, Z |
Goddard |
DAT, OPS, Z |
Hobart |
OPS, OPT, OUT, SUS, Z |
IAP |
OPT, Z |
IUCAA |
DAT, Z |
LaTech |
OPS, OUT, Z |
Loyola |
DAT, OPS, Z |
LSU |
DAT, LAS, OPS, SUS, Z |
Maryland |
ACF, DAT, OPS, Z |
Michigan |
DAT, OPS, OUT, Z |
NAOJ-TAMA |
ACF, Z |
Northwestern |
DAT, OPS, Z |
Oregon |
DAT, OPS, Z |
Penn State |
DAT, OPS, OUT, Z |
Rochester |
DAT, Z |
SLU |
OPS, Z |
Southern |
OPT, OUT, Z |
Stanford |
ACF, LAS, OPS, OPT, OUT, SUS, Z |
Syracuse |
DAT, OPS, OUT, Z |
Texas A |
DAT, OPS, Z |
Texas B |
DAT, OPS, OUT, Z |
Trinity |
OPT, OUT, Z |
Univ of Wash |
OPS, Z |
Wash State |
DAT, OPS, Z |
Wisconsin |
DAT, Z |
A. Lazzarini note: The next MOU review is scehduled for 16, 17 August at MIT. We are working on a web services interface to enable PIs to more easily submit reports and new propsoed MOU Attachments. The target date for the roll-out of the new interface for beta-testing of this interface with volunteer PIs is early July.
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT (Luna)
>From: Rod Luna <rluna@ligo.caltech.edu>
- Provided assistance to Ken Mason @ MIT with making arrangements to ship back nine large aluminum parts from Galli & Morelli in Italy to Arland Tool, MA. Account Number LIGO.BSCCH-5.18-NSFLIGO.FY02CA.
- Created and submitted Asset Retirement form for eleven computers at LLO.
- Working with personnel at LHO and LLO in gathering equipment information for purchase on P-cards that were not cross-referenced with Oracle's Fixed Assets module.
- Working on creating an equipment database for LLO.
DOCUMENT CONTROL CENTER (Turner, Mak)
>From: Linda Turner - turner@ligo.caltech.edu>
- Safety Plan - Spent most of the week working with Bill to complete the System Safety Plan and the Laser Safety Program Plan. A large amount of effort and time was needed to deal with multiple formats from earlier versions, some dating back to the time when the lab used FrameMaker. The final version is readable and will make further revisions easier. In addition to the basic documents, all the appendices, which were primarily forms, were redesigned for review. Dave Beckett spent a lot of time editing the final versions.
- Scanning Status - As of today all documents for categories E, L, M, P and T have been scanned and are available electronically. The scanning also included OCR so they will be available for any future search engines depending on how they are made available. Most of category G, from 2000 to current is in electronic format. The earlier years are in the process of being scanned now with the hope that they will be finished in July. A good chunk of those in category C have been scanned including all closed-out contracts, and several multiple volume documents. The bulk of the remaining documents for this category will be left until the end as they are more complicated and takes me going through and ensuring that nothing proprietary is place on-line, etc. The final category are the drawings. Many of these are already available electronically, and those that are only available in hard copy are often oversized. This category will also need more human intervention to determine what can and can't be effectively scanned.
>From: Cleveland Mak <mak_c@ligo.caltech.edu>
- Worked on processing into the DCC a list of outstanding Advanced LIGO documents from the UK group.
- Scanning Update - Scanning of all non-electronic "M" category documents is very close to being complete.
Document Management System - Plan B (Lindquist)
A meeting was held Friday, June 8. The committee is assembling a consensus document to be presented to LIGO management.
FINANCIAL SYSTEMS (Funaro, Brambila, Kaufman)
>From: "Funaro, Catherine" <Catherine.Funaro@caltech.edu>
>From: "Brambila, Ruth" <Ruth.Brambila@caltech.edu>
- Completed change order #9 to Galli and Morelli.
- Received the Debarment Certificate from ANU and submitted the purchase order to them.
- Placed the order for the channels for MIT. The lead time is 14 to 16 weeks and delivery is scheduled for Oct 3, 2007.
- Re-submitted change order #186 to Triad with the revised documents.
- Working on change order #187 and 188 to Triad.
- Completed the order for the refurbished signal analyzer.
- Working on the new order to HPD.
>From: Florence Kaufman <fkaufman>
- As a result of a code change for Discoverer last week (the system from which the financial data for LIGO is retrieved), purchase order balances that were previously thought to be closed, have reappeared as commitments. Thus far, I have identified approximately $250K of such commitments. The issue has been brought to the attention of Sherri Weed, the supervisor of the Procurement Support Services Hotline. I will be working with Ruth Brambila, to have her cancel the lines in the Purchasing Module, so that the commitments can be removed.
- Prepared four Intra Award Cost Transfers to move expenditures that had been misclassified.
- Submitted a request for funding realignment to Project Accounting to reallocate budget mainly for the various new fabrication accounts that have been established.
- Assisted in the preparation of a fabrication equipment request by Peter King.
- Submitted a request for a new account number (PTA) for the Stan Whitcomb's Award for "Low Noise Suspensions and Readout Systems for LIGO."
- 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>
- The contract with Australia National University (ANU) for the design of a part of the seismic isolation system.
- Galli & Morelli received authorization to build a shipping crate for the cleaning oven they purchased under their contract, and to release it to our broker for shipment to LLO.
>From: Ed Jasnow <jasnow@ligo.caltech.edu>
- A teleconference on the possible wind farm near LHO was held yesterday, June 13. Participants were Fred Raab, Pamela Krueger, consultant, David Flores, Caltech OGC, Jerry Lutz and Christine Wilson, of the law firm of Perkins Coie, and Ed Jasnow. Agreement was reached on a strategy to handle the test data from the explosions detonated by the engineering consultants for the wind farm company. LIGO will assemble an independent review panel to examine the data and present its conclusions on any impact to the operation of the observatory. Additionally, the attorneys from Perkins Coie will examine the applicable codes for both Benton and Yakima Counties to see if there have been any significant changes since the last wind farm application.
- P-Card training was conducted earlier this week at LHO. Training was conducted by Michelle Reagan, of Purchasing Services, for five staff members, with the travel feature training conducted for several others.
PROPOSALS and REPORTS (Lindquist)
GPRA facility performance estimates have been submitted to the NSF via FastLane.
The monthly report, also due to the NSF this week, is ready to go.
The first draft of the Continuing Operations Proposal (FTY 2009 – 13) has been put on the web page. The PAC is reviewing this draft and providing useful comments. The status of the proposal budget was also presented to the PAC.
CHANGE CONTROL/CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT (Lindquist)
There are no open change requests. The LIGO Change Control Board met Monday June 11 as part of the normally scheduled meeting of the LIGO Executive Committee. The following requests were approved. Minutes are being prepared.
- Change Request CR070004 submitted by P. Fritschel and D. Coyne requests the release of FY 2007 and FY 2008 budget to cover a priority subset of the Advanced LIGO "wish list" items.
- Change Request CR-070005, submitted by M. Zucker, D. Ottaway, and R. Mittleman, requests funds to replace the aging main turbo pumps for the LAST facility at MIT.
- Change Request CR070006 submitted by M. Zucker modifies the budget for Advanced LIGO, Enhanced LIGO (ELI) Fabrications.
HUMAN RESOURCES (Akutagawa)
>From: Cindy Akutagawa <cindy@ligo.caltech.edu>
- The next Staffing Committee meeting is scheduled for Monday, June 18.
- The REU/SURF students arrived this week and on Tuesday we held 'orientation' for them. The students were introduced to the LIGO personnel they need to interact with during their visit.
- 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
The drafts of the revised LIGO safety documents (M950046, Safety Program and M960001 Laser Safety) were completed today (Thursday, 14th of June). These two drafts will be distributed to reviewers on Friday, 15th of June. Will ask for comments on or before the next LIGO Safety Steering Committee meeting, scheduled for Tuesday 26th of June.
LIGO
Hanford
Observatory (LHO) and Interferometer Operations (Raab)
Summary of S5 Activities at LIGO Hanford Observatory (compiled by M. Landry)
The H1 duty cycle was reasonable at 85% for the last week, posting typical ranges of 15-16Mpc. The H2 duty cycle was slightly lower at 81%, with ranges at times highly variable owing to mystery noise that came and went (as has been reported for the last several weeks in many elogs and the weekly report). At least some of these noisy episodes are attributable to glitching observed in one coil of the H2 RM (see below).
Summer visitors have begun to arrive. Two SURF students, Jaclyn Sanders (gravity gradients) and Greg Snyder (output mode cleaners) have begun work on their respective projects. Miranda Pihlaja is a teacher from Prosser High School, who is working on curriculum material under the NSF Understanding the Universe (I2U2) program. Katie Briggs is working with EE/CDS.
Some S5 highlights from the LHO elog are bulleted below:
- summaries: Tuesday maintenance, CDS maintenance, latest range & duty cycle compilation
- our 2k mystery noise continues, with periods of decreased and highly variable inspiral range. RM glitching was investigated as a cause of some of these episodes (with followup here, showing that the UL coil glitch in the RM lead the (feedback) events seen in the FMs)
- 4h of commissioning experiments in the form of scattering measurements were logged
- in order to reduce the cost of watering, some grassy areas in front of the OSB were replaced with rocks; ground crews worked at various times including the weekend (data quality flags to be formed)
- excitation testpoints on H2 became frozen after an alignment, necessitating an IOC bootfest
- a 4k glitch event was investigated; it was either due to the ISS, or not.... i.e. something faster than 16kHz
- h2adcupem, problematic last week as channels (such as accelerometer ones) were flatlined and a timing error had developed, continued to be a problem this week. Most hardware (crate, cpu, cabling and timing card) has been swapped but the channels remain invalid.
Outreach (D. Ingram)
Hidden in the middle of this photo is Fred Raab, demonstrating a small Michelson to 32 new U of Washington faculty members who toured LHO on 6/13. This visit to LIGO was part of a 3-day statewide bus trip that the University annually provides for new faculty. Provost Phyllis Wise participated in the trip, which was organized by Director of Strategic Communications Harry Hayward.
LIGO
Livingston
Observatory (LLO) and Interferometer Operations (Giaime)
S5 run summary (Igor Yakushin):
- Duty cycle 79%. Inspiral range ~14Mpc.
- On Tuesday afternoon RBS failed and one of PZTs had to be replaced.
- Resyncing of segment replication databases between the sites is taking longer than expected and is still in progress.
CDS Computing (Lisa Bogue):
- Finished building a hot backup for llo1 and all of the nfs critical filesystems.
- Continuing to work on security planning with Dave and Rolf.
- Updated my solaris10 security script.
- Reviewed the inet services on llo1 and disabled unnecessary services.
- Reviewed cds filesystem access via web with Dave.
- Provided Dave with information about jumpstart configuration and video displays on new sun servers.
- Wrote a wrapper script for firefox to fix the problem of competing profiles in the control room.
Safety & Security (Rich Riesen):
- Found no Laser safety concerns this reporting period.
- Conducted IR scan of the PLS table, no errant beams present.
- Safety walk-thru of the HPLF showed no laser or housekeeping safety concerns.
- Checked all site Laser Warning lighted signs for proper operation. All units functioning properly.
- Checked and initialed in-house inspection tags on all site fire extinguishers for proper pressure and physical integrity, all units O.K.
- Checked all site emergency lights, replaced 4 faulty units. All site units are fully functional.
- Inspected site BTE doors (front and rear). All doors locked and operating properly.
- Finishing up on the last of three LLO SURF student site/laser safety requirements.
- Issued 14 LSS swipe cards due to being worn out or lost.
Livingston Outreach (Kathy Holt):
- Met with Project MISE facilitators to develop LIGO program for their MSP in July.
- PRISM - MSP group workshop conducted programs on EM waves, Color subtraction and interference.
- Worked on updating and correcting web-site.
- Discussed scheduling on Microsoft Outlook with Dwayne.
- Drafted programs for next weeks MSP's (Project Science, ABC Connections,Washington Parish MSP).
- Mailed pre-visit packet to ULM for program planning.
- Budgeted monies needed for slinky snack for ULM program and received check for purchasing materials.
- Prepared program for LSU students visiting Saturday at 1:00.
- Collected misconceptions for LIGO concepts for web-site.
LIGO computing and network security (Roddy)
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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 & computing (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)
- SURF students have arrived and are coming up to speed; please make them welcome!
Sonia Buckley of U Dublin will work on optimizing the suspension controllers.
Josh Weiner of Caltech will work on analyzing the modal content of the OMC transmitted light.
Alice Wang of Georgia Tech will work on aLIGO RFPD development.
Keenan Pepper of U Florida will work on gravity gradients.
Edward Macauley of Imperial College (arriving in 2 weeks) will work on FTIR testing.
- Bryan Barr is visiting from Glasgow.
- IFO commissioning, Electronics, controls, computers:
- Tobin installed a delay line phase shifter in the mode cleaner rack, to facilitate the measurement of RF phase noise couplings.
- Rana installed Shourov's code to make Qscan spectrograms of 40m channels.
- We are preparing to vent in order to drag-wipe the test mass optics.
- Vacuum squeezing:
- Osamu and Go measured the suspension actuation function up to 10 kHz. They realized that there's an extra pole at ~ 5 kHz due to an RL in the coil / driver. Rana points out that there are other features in the 10 kHz region. Anyway, Go used the extra pole to correct the calibration of the shot-noise-limited sensitivity of the SRMI, for the squeezing paper. He will assign a ~ 10% error on the calibration, which doesn't impact the main point of the paper: that the shot-noise-limited sensitivity is reduced when squeezed vacuum is injected.
Thermal Noise Interferometer (Black)
- Last week, LMA successfully grew an optimized coating on a test substrate. This week, they are going to try and grow one on our TNI substrates. Wish them luck.
- Ilaria made good progress on the spot-position experiment in the beginning of the week, but she has been out for a couple of days with a knee injury.
LASTI (Mittleman)
- Jay, Alex and Russ were here this week installing the ISI electronics. Ben, Rolf and Richard McCarthy are scheduled to be here next week to finish the installation. While they were here the fixed the DAC problem that we were having with the triple channels, it turned out to be a software problem.
- As part of the documentation process we have posted a picture of the ISI test stand before the assembly has started on today's LASTI ilo 6/15/07. (http://emvogil-3.mit.edu/ilog/)
CIT Science Group (Weinstein)
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Igor Yakushin:
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Gregory Mendell:
- I have checked code for testing PowerFlux generalizations into the pulgroup cvs archive under pulgroup/docs/SFTParamEstimation/testCode.
- I have checked draft presentations for Amaldi into the pulgroup cvs archive under pulgroup/presentations/AmaldiJul07.
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Xavier Siemens :
- Finishing off V3 h(t) (hooray!)
- Cosmic string lensing and microlensing
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Eirini Messaritaki:
- I worked with Vibha on the detection of inspiral signals from eccentric binaries with non-eccentric inspiral templates.I worked on testing and debugging the inspiral null stream code.
- I worked on validating the S5-V3 calibration frame files.
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Kent Blackburn:
OPEN SCIENCE GRID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT:
- Assisted in the testing of the OSG Lab 2 course materials for the OSG Education, Outreach and Training Team. Subject: Grid security.Tested H(T) Workflows with different size frame data on OSG sites for run time, disc space usage failure rate and error type.Wrote agenda and attended weekly LIGO_Pegasus teleconference with ISI developers.Attend weekly DASWG teleconferences and reported on OSG development.Currently troubleshooting gencdag error: re-generate WFs.Trouble hooting mkdir problem: change Condor Version, change workdir location on remote site.
- Setting up for testing H(T) WFs with different Mass ranges (template bank sizes) on OSG for run time, failure rate and type.
OPEN SCIENCE GRID INTEGRATION TESTBED:
- No activities this week. New Integration Testbed developer is expected to arrive next week.
OPEN SCIENCE GRID MANAGEMENT:
- Attend first (annual) meeting of the Scientific Advisory Group of OSG and members of the Executive Team presented and discussed OSG issues and roadmap with David Schwartz, Professor of Chemistry and Genetics at the University of Wisconsin Madison, Helene Armitage of IBM, Barry Barish of the ILC & LIGO. They asked keen questions and we had extremely useful discussions. We left with a list of issues to provide answers to over the next couple of months.Continue to work on OSG's Year 2 planning.
- Brought in the OSG trouble-shooting team to assist in tracking down the problem with directory creation not being reported to the workflows consistently.
Laboratory Computing (Anderson)
LDAS Software Systems (Maros)
- There have been several accomplishments this week with the diskcacheAPI. The first is having the getFrameData command process all files returned by the diskcache query (PR#3170). The second is a resolution to a memory issue that would sometimes corrupt data on the stack. Both of these changes are part of the pre-release that will be running on ldas-cit by the end of the Thursday, June 14, 2007.
- The user_commands.tcl script has been modified to filter for the S5 createRDS commands.
- The assistant managers now abort jobs the diskcacheAPI returns a bad value including the empty string. Previously, empty string failures were not reported.
- Testing scripts have been modified as follows: The dcmangle script now only removes 11 mount points at one time and the delay between mangling has been increased from 100 seconds to 1000 seconds.
LDAS System Administration (Anderson)
Caltech
(Dan Kozak)
- Doubled checked some files at CIT whose 1st copies were damaged but whose 2nd copies had been done away with. The files are all fine, but I need to discover the leak in the process of relabelling of 3rd tape copies that allowed this to happen.
- Campaigned (with various degrees of success) for much longer LDR gridftp timeout values amongst our LDR customers to workaround the problems we're having with LDR vs. tape drive oversubscription.
- Got the "smalltest" 6140 reconfigured and resumed filesystem tests.
- Tested clusterstage without the '-d' (delete) option to rsync.
- Chased gaps in raw data, discovered uningested L0 LHO data from May 17th in the CIT silo and ingested it.
- Gave Murali RLS access.
- Verifed Xavi's H1 level 1 & 2 h(t) files in the CIT cluster and began copying them to /archive. Worked with Ben so he could publish them synchronously, so that they won't need to be staged back from tape to be published.
- Unwedged stuck L0 files for Xavi.
- Fixed broken homedu plot.
- Generated list of tapes for shelf storage at LHO.
- Talked to Shourov about qonline using all tape drives due to referencing files in /archive rather than in the cluster.
- Talked to user mito about L0 usage and how to get best performance.
- Helped Britta track down some RLS problems.
(Phil Ehrens)
- Various GRID Certificate related duties.
- Ongoing work on the MOU webforms project. Re-integrated the per-attachment forms for use in creating the new (2007-2008) attachments. refactored the text input from a widget oriented method to a full-page input format. Testing and refining filesystem hierarchy and disposition of working files.
(Erik Espinoza)
- Set up test condorview on my desktop.
- Tested Sun/RAID recovery procedure on CentOS 5 box.
- Assisted Mike Pedraza with FC4 Desktop deployments.
- Upgraded GC Mail Scanners.
- Ran FrCheck on node24.
- Looked into CentOS 3.8 issues w/ Carsten (2.4 SATA Bugs).
- Provided Steffen access to test Ubuntu system.
- Made full backups of ldas-grid.
- Assisted Dan & Ed w/ hung file system tests.
- Built "Complete Test" dag which will test various jobs on Condor.
- Changed PERIODIC_CHECKPOINT to occur every 24 hrs.
- Configured CIT Cluster to use condorview.
MIT
(Fred Donovan)
- Replaced and replacing multiple drives in pcraids: data1, data2, data6, data8, data12. Sendmail configured on all pcraid nodes.
- Common conf files (ntp,hosts,automount,etc) All pcraid nodex (except pcraid3) now report smartmon disk status to nagios.
- Also housekeeping (labeling nodes; cleaning out/testing disks).
Livingston
(Igor Yakushin)
- Resyncing of segment replication databases started last Friday and is still in progress. It has already failed three times and had to be restarted.
(Dwayne Giardina)
- Tape eject for shipment to CIT.
- Replaced batteries in a failed UPS in the tape robot.
Hanford
(Greg Mendell)
- The generation, archiving, and transfer of raw, RDS, and trend data is up-to-date at LHO, LLO, and CIT. I have also verified that h(t) data exists for all the sience mode segments that occurred during the blind injection test period. I will soon be ordering tapes for the remainder of S5. I am also working slowly on a possible set of RDS frames for S5 timing studies.
(Ben Johnson)
- Continuing work on LDAS NDS server. Currently working on the frame reading module.
- Started up publishing of C03 h(t) data at CIT.
- Helped Dave Barker test Fedora 7's fast user switching.
- Exported ~140 L0 tapes to make room for more data.
General Computing (Wallace)
MIT
(Fred)
- Some wireless issues; software installs (xp,matlab)
- Moving home directories from tubera: /export/home /export2/home
- Purchasing/license paperwork; continuing move ip address inventory
- More ilog work on demo install.
Livingston
(Dwayne)
- More work with the SEC building controls PC
- Printed reports from main building controls PC
- Created 3 new GC and mail accounts for SURF students, locked all old SURF GC accounts
- Added a startup message to the SEC laptops
- Installed COMSOL on a PC for a SURF student
- Ran Christian's unattended XP install inside of Parallels on my MacBook Pro. so far so good
- Replaced tapes in GC tape library
- Replaced toner in a couple of printers
- Usual user support requests
- Cleared spam trap
(Shannon)
- Finished setting up the VLAN to Allen's office for the SEC HVAC.
- Installing and testing Sun JASS toolkit on a vmware instance. Initial testing is impressive.
- More IDS issues, alerts, etc.
- Ordered quite a bit of bits and pieces of hardware, laptop, etc.
- Set up some additional software at CIT on the IDS to better help in investigating certain issues for Larry.
- Usual telecons, documentation, etc.
- Looking into an odd vpn issue.
- Evaluating difficulties in DB performance and whether to change software for managing IDS alerts because of it. Started installing a different management package for testing, need to complete the new DB setup and install new software on the endpoint IDS boxes.
Hanford
(Christine)
- More SURFs and visitors showing up. Setting up more computers, creating user and email accounts, helping set up personal computers belonging to the students and visitors.
- Something is causing the BGP with ESnet to occasionally "flap" between the backup and primary network circuits. ESnet and myself are keeping an eye on the circuits, but at this point have no idea what the cause could be.
- Created a directory on the new disk system for a user to store a large amount of data. Still moving user home directories and files to the newdisk system.
- Purchased more computer supplies to accommodate the summer visitors and workshops.
CIT
(Mike)
- Worked mostly on loading computers and setting up offices for surf students.
- Setup surf student accounts.
- Added many new mac addresses to our wireless access points.
- Setup PAP/PAC meeting.
(Christian)
- 3flr W/B- configured 2 new systems with Mathematica and Mathlab for new Surf Students.
- 40 Meter - Upgraded 2 visitors' workstation from Windows 2000 to Windows XP.
- Bill Kells- Configured loaner laptop for Bill to use on travel.
- Toner cartridge replacements- 3flr W/B, Millikan, Irene Baldon.
- Continue working with the installation on WSUS clients for LIGO users.
- Other misc.: Continued on-site software/phone support.
(Veronica)
- LIGO: Ongoing support of the PAC/PAP meetings. Various web updates.
- LSC: Continued work on the website for the upcoming L-V meeting. Updates of the database of technical papers, various website updates.
(Larry)
- Worked on a number of procurements and contracts. Purchased a number of computers to handle the visitors and surf students. The old computers are too old and won't do the job for most of the people. Updating/updated a couple of service contracts. Just a few more to do.
- Still working with PMA and the contractors. However, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel for the computer rooms. Just some minor items left to install and some repair on some switches and things should be wrapped up. We are hoping to see this project finished up by next week.
- Spending time getting accounts and other logistical work done for the visitors and SURF students.
- Worked out the network logistics for the PAP and PAC meeting setup. Mike was able to setup things up and they worked out well. The campus wireless signal is weak in one of the conference rooms but we had setup another system (as a backup) that was able to take care of that problem. Other than that the Campus setup for visitors works pretty well.
- Cleaned up a few accounts and did some troubleshooting for a couple of people on their accounts.
- Assisted DCC with a couple of items.
- Worked on a couple of projector and webcam issues. Looking into a new webcam with better resolution than the ones presently being used.
- Replaced another edge-switch. The bad unit will be sent back to Foundry in the next couple of days.
Advanced LIGO and Supporting R&D (Shoemaker)
The Advanced LIGO mangement team prepared for the PAP meeting that took place at Caltech 13 June, followed by reports to the PAC on Advanced LIGO status.
For additional information about this report, contact Albert Lazzarini or Phil Lindquist
