Weekly Report for Week Ending September 6, 2007

LSC	Administration	Hanford Observatory	Livingston Observatory
Optical & Mechanical	Controls and Data Systems	40 Meter Facility	TNI
LASTI	CIT Science Group	Laboratory Computing	Adv. LIGO Development

Past Weekly Reports

Special Announcements: End of S5 science observation defined -- 0000 UTC Monday 1 October

Weekly Report Highlights

LSC Issues (Reitze)

• Planning continues for the October LSC-Virgo meeting to be held in Hannover, Germany in late October. This meeting will have a full instrument science agenda.  A web site for the meeting has been set up: http://hannoverlsc07.aei.mpg.de/
• The burst group paper "Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with 39 Gamma-Ray Bursts Using Data from the Second, Third, and Fourth LIGO Runs" has been posted on the arXiv and can be found at http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0766.
• A technical note written by LSC members developing data formats for numerical relativity wave forms has been posted on the arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0093. This document will hopefully serve as a starting point for interactions with numerical relativity community with the longer term goal of integrating numerical relativity wave forms into LSC searches.

LIGO Laboratory Administration (Lindquist)

STATUS OF LSC MOUs (Lloyd)

Andrews, Montana and Rochester MOUs were resubmitted with the revisions requested by the review panel. These revised MOUs were posted for review by the panel.

DOCUMENT CONTROL CENTER (Turner, Mak)

FINANCIAL SYSTEMS (Funaro, Brambila, Kaufman)

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

• For ACCOUNTS PAYABLE HISTORY Press Here.

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

• Completed several change orders on purchase orders and submitted to vendors.
• Responded to inquiries from vendors, staff, and researchers and provided assistance and answers on orders.
• Re-directed mis-delivered order to the appropriate department on campus.
• Completed change order #11 to Corning and submitted to vendor.
• Completed the change order to Praxair that was done in my absence.
• Placed the SRS order for Rana, and followed up on the delivery of the second optical table, which arrived on campus last week.

>From: Florence Kaufman <fkaufman>

• Completed and posted the monthly report for operations as of the end of August on the network.
• Started work on training my replacement Karl Oracion.
• Worked with Karl and sent out reports for three Discretionary Accounts, Outreach Award, Award form University of Wisconsin, Low Noise and I2U2 Awards.
• 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>

• Modification No. 18 was issued to the Praxair contract for LN2 at LHO.  This extension was to carry the contract to the end of S5, so that an RFP for a new contract for LN2 can be issued with no restrictions on deliveries.

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

• A teleconference was held yesterday on the subject of customs requirements for material expected to be received from overseas for Advanced LIGO.  Participating were Carol Wilkinson, David Shoemaker, Ann Margaret Chrisney, Gina Salone, Cleveland Mak, and Ed Jasnow.  Among the issues discussed was the usage of the correct import brokers and the issuance of Caltech powers of attorney.  It was agreed that the current powers of attorney would be extended to five years for the brokers in Los Angeles and New Orleans, since they had performed effectively in the past.  David Shoemaker agreed to research the name of MIT's preferred broker, since it appears we did not use that one on the test mass from Glasgow.  Additionally, upon his return from medical leave, Rod Luna will research the names of potential brokers in both Seattle and Portland.  Also, a draft of a cover letter to obtain a blanket waiver from U.S. Customs on scientific instruments has been distributed to all attendees of the teleconference, plus Ann Bussone of OGC.

PROPOSALS and REPORTS (Lindquist)

Completing the proposal for continuing operations (FY 2009 – FY 2013).  The proposal budgets have been sent to the Office of Sponsored Research.  OSR had a number of suggestions that we will be addressing over the next few days.  Rana proposed some revisions concerning QND section which Dave Beckett is assessing for impact, and Dave will provide before and after images to be considered for inclusion in this next go around.  All such proposed changes will be carefully controlled and provided to the Director’s Office for blessing.

The Annual Report for current Operations has been sent to the NSF as an “interim Report on FastLane.  We used the “Interim Report” category because FastLane does not currently have a place for us to submit an Annual Report for FY2007 (this appears to be a bug in FastLane...).

The LIGO Visitors program was officially over July 31, 2007 (subsequent visitors are covered under Operations), and a Final Report has been prepared by Stan Whitcomb.  This reports was sent to the NSF via FastLane this week.

I have sent out a reminder to all the usual suspects concerning the monthly report for the end of August.  Inputs are requested by Wednesday, September 12.  We will submit the report by the end of next week.

I have begun preparing the budgets for Operations in FY 2008.  I am trying to reconstruct all the “wish list” items beginning with last years budget version 4.0.  These budgets will be used to prepare the Work Plan for FY 2008 to be submitted to the NSF at the end of this month.

CHANGE CONTROL/CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT (Lindquist)

• CR-070007 requests funding to cover increased design and fabrication costs for SEI HAM Prototypes. Need to first perform an assessment of year-to-date budget and wish list coverage.  A revision to the request is expected.

HUMAN RESOURCES (Akutagawa)

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

• No report -- Cindy is out.

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)

Very good week as the stat shows. The duty cycle of H1 and H2 (from Thu. 30/Aug/2007 to Wed. 5/Sep/2007) were 88.8 and 88.7 percent, typically with 15.5 to 16 Mpc and 6.5 Mpc binary range, respectively.

Summaries: Range and Duty Cycle update. Tuesday maintenance summary.

Highlights from the LHO elog:

• Earthquakes of this week: 3.7 Utah and 6.3 Gulf of California, 6.9 Santa Cruz Islands, 5.1 Alaska, 5.0 Gulf of California, and 6.5 Taiwan.
• Curious wandering noise hump appeared (and was gone) in H2.
• Scimons and glitch group found glitches related to ISS in H1.
• Frame builder crashed causing some troubles.
• H1 TCS trouble, plus H2 FSS trouble.
• One of our ion pump power supply failed and was replaced.
• ISCT10 floating system trouble made excess noise in H2. Some analysis (this and this) seemed to indicate that the table was hitting the stops. Later a fix was attempted by bumping the floating servo gain up and increasing the air pressure. H2 has been running fine since then, but it's premature to judge if the problem is gone.

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

S5 run (Valera Frolov):

• The S5 data taking duty cycle for this week was 73%. The bns range was around 15 Mpc during the quiet time and 13-14 Mpc during the daytime, when power was reduced from 8 W to 5-6 W. One of the piezo actuators of the reflected beam stabiliztion system failed on thursday night and was replaced on Friday. There was sum check error on one of the frame builders which was found during the weekend and resolved by rebooting the machine. There was no loss of science data due this episode.
• During the Tuesday maintenance the interferometer input beam mode was characterized at different power levels. It was found that beam shape becomes significantly distorted at high power possibly due to the thermal effects in the Faraday isolator. This is a continuing study of the mode matching into the interferometer.

CDS Computing (Lisa Bogue)

• Submitted 2 documents to the DCC.  T070215-00-D, Recovering LLO CDS Computing from a Partial Power Outage and T070216-00-D, Recovering LLO CDS Computing from a Full Power Outage.
• FY'08 budget planning.
• Working with the t1000 hardware.
• Fine tuning sol10 jumpstart server.

Livingston Outreach (John Thacker):

• Made preparations for and conducted docent training on 4 exhibits.
• Revised Docent Manual.
• Drafted procedures for scheduling field trips, professional development programs and public tours.
• Sent confirmations to field trip and professional development requests.
• Updated calendar.
• Developed a light activity using card stock (eye glasses) and fiters of different types.
• Worked on transferring information to the SEC shared folder.
• Established research dates in exhibit hall for Tulane volunteer (Psych. Tulane).
• Next Phase committee work; update of committee document.

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)

• We had two (unrelated) computer failures this week, both of which brought down the suspension controllers. Alex traced the first, on Friday, to a power supply failure on the c1dcuepics computer; he replaced the supply and the systems came back to life. The second was on Tuesday, and Alex traced it to a failed disk on c1iscepics. He pulled out that computer, transferred the iscepics process from it to c1dcuepics, and brought it back up. Rana did a BURT restore to get everything working again. Alan got the nightly disk backup working; the second time, we needed help from Dan Kozak.
• Rana is exploring the origin of the RFAM that we now know is present after the Mach Zehnder (and presumably caused by it). We now have a reasonably reliable monitor of it in the MC reflected beamline.
• Elena and Andrey are working on understanding the coherence between accelerometers on the floor and the suspended optic motion, in order to implement some feed-forward noise cancelling.
• Steve is diagnosing problems with the vacuum N2 readback, which should trigger an interlock if it falls too low, but doesn't.
• SURF Elena Gaspari and grad student Andrey Rodionov went through the 40m safety training with Steve.
• Valera is coming on Monday to work on the autoalignment system and the OMC.
• Bram is coming to work on the tip-tilt mirrors for eLIGO.
• Rob and Tobin are back.

Thermal Noise Interferometer (Black)

• Reinstallation of the optics continues after the move. All of the steering mirrors outside the vacuum and a few of the steering mirrors inside the chamber have been installed, and two of the mode-cleaner mirrors have been suspended. So far, the only problem has been the discovery that the table on top of the in-vacuum stack is not level, but we didn't expect to preserve that anyway. It's an easy thing to fix.
• The south retaining wall has also been installed, greatly improving laser safety over the old curtain arrangement on that side.

LASTI (Mittleman)

BSC ISI

• This week we had both stages floating long enough to balance both stages and install both sets of locators/lockers.  All of the lockers were then engaged and we have moved onto installing the actuators. All of the small actuators have been installed. We then installed the vertical GS-13 pods, finishing the installation of the seismometers.

CIT Science Group (Weinstein)

Kipp Cannon has joined our group. Please make him welcome!

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Kent Blackburn for the Grid Research Group:

GRID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

• Wrote monthly OSG report and filed on OSG TWIKI.
• Wrote agenda for weekly LIGO-Pegasus telecon.
• Attend weekly LIGO-Pegasus, DASWG and OSG-USERS telecon.
• Running on new sites (NOTE: Obtained NERSC account)
  • MCGILL_HEP  does not support LIGO
  • GRASE_BINGHAMPTON  not a OSG rescource anymore
  • HAMPTON_U  waiting for response to GOC ticket
  • In Progress: attempt to run on OU_OCHEP_SWT2 and FIU_PG
• Participating in the ITB testing of OSG 0.7.0 release
  • wrote properties files for 12 ITB sites
  • generate dax/dag
  • test on 11 ITB sites
  • UCSDT2_ITB1 not in sites.xml or VORS, contacted sys admin
• Made changes to the python script pipleline.py to make the DAX compliant with Pegasus 2.0 (reinstall glue).
• Gap in frame data problem for binary inspiral DAX workflows:
  • use patched version of tmpltbank.c and inspiral.c (reinstalled lal)
  • regenerate binary inspiral DAX workflow
  • testing on OSG site (in progress)

OPEN SCIENCE GRID INTEGRATION AND VALIDATION TESTBED

• Attended DASWG telecon, OSG ITB telecon and OSG VTB telecon.
• Created first draft on VO site validation table.
• Edited OSG 0.7.0 ITB site table to reflect the site updates.
• Followed up with John by email on ValVoAccess questions.
• Found pegasus-getsite tc.data bugs on generated tc.data, reported bugs to pegasus team.
• Ran ligo work flow on new OSG 0.7.0 to validate the new release, computation finish successfully.
• Added/edited unix accounts on osg-itb gatekeeper node.
• The second draft of VO site validation table on twiki OSG 0.7.0 ITB page.
• Node1 of osg-vtb fail, examined the cause of failure, find the root cause is the power strip.
• Found the mistakes in condor submit file, re run ws-gram validation test, test pass.
• Exchanged emails about VO site validation tables feedback and suggestions.
• Edited the VO site validtion table on the twiki page according to the suggestions.
• Create/validate the VO Unix Accounts on osg-itb worker nodes.
• Coordinate with Abhishek Rana on OSG 0.7.0 ITB site testing.
• Examine condor job log history from different VOs.

OPEN SCIENCE GRID MANAGEMENT

• Worked on work task assignments for Caltech and a few other institutions for year two Statements of work. Discussed with OSG Project Assistant.
• Attended OSG Executive Team Meeting. Significant interest in OSG by Chinese (including Junwei Cao and Tsinghua University) reported by Miron Livny. Discussed LIGO's connections with Tsinghua University and what opportunities might be available.
• Discussed establishing an agreement with ISI's Pegasus Developers to allow for more complete integration into the development and debugging process for LIGO workflows at the CompComm meeting. A note has been drafted and sent to the Directorate for consideration.

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Anand Sengupta:

• Last week the second stage of the high mass CBC runs finished.
• I am making the plots to look at the r^2 veto for this search. The preliminary results are available at http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/cgi-bin/enote.pl?nb=iags5tdfindchirp&actio n=view&page=51 This page will be updated with more information for presentation next week at the CBC telecon.

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Gregory Mendell:

• The S5 SFTs generated from C03 hoft data for the first year of the run, which were generated and published at CIT, have now been transferred to AEI for CW searches.

Laboratory Computing (Anderson)

FROM LAST WEEK's REPORT ....

LDAS Software Systems (Lei)

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LDAS System Administration (Anderson)

Caltech

(Dan Kozak)

• Did work to support power test and chilled water outage in Powell-Booth (moved export-dev T3 to UPS power, shutdown and restarted tape drives and silo).
• Talked with Xavi about h(t) situation, am now waiting on list of files from him.
• Did lots of 6140 work.  Final(?!) filesystems now built.
• Replaced bad frames on node153 & node154.
• Called in opterondata-cit crash to Sun.
• Did tape lists for shelf storage at LHO/LLO.

(Phil Ehrens)

• Ongoing support of MOU Review Website.
• General certificate management tasks.
• Contacted JMC fans regarding purchase of replacement fans for cluster nodes. No reply from them so far.
• Researched readily available materials appropriate for use as cluster node air filters. Best candidate so far is "white ScotchBrite", which has good mechanical characteristics (free-standing) and good anecdotal reports of use in this application.

MIT

(Fred Donovan)

• Some nfs (v4, security) problems on osg-ligo cluster -- /etc/hosts related (?); purchase some disks; with Murali got condor & condor_probe reporting working again osg-ligo.

Livingston

(Igor Yakushin)

• Restarted failed segment replication at CIT.
• Changed  ::STAT_TIMEOUT to 30 seconds in the /ldas_outgoing/diskcacheAPI/LDASdiskcache.rsc to deal with  "Could not execute lstat()" error. An attempt to do it in cmonClient crashed it.
• Working on moving version 1 DQ segments to version 0 since version 1 is reserved for coalesced segments.

(Dwayne Giardina)

No report

Hanford

(Greg Mendell)

• The S5 SFTs generated from C03 hoft data for the first year of the run are on the nodes and published into the archive at CIT. These SFTs are available via LDR, and instruction have been sent to the CW group on how to find the files at CIT, how how to transfer them, for example to AEI.

(Ben Johnson)

• Replaced batteries in a 2kVA UPS (powering the 4600) and in a 5kVA UPS (powering 6 T3s). The 2kVA is ok, but the 5kVA is still has blinking battery fill lights. The latter is powering the T3s though, and it does "test".
• Getting Solaris 10 installed on the X4500 has been very difficult, either with SOl 10 U3 install CD or the OpenSolaris n70 installer (I'll ultimately go with Sol 10 U3). Apparently, ZFS really takes over a disk and completely eliminating the EFI partitions it creates is a chore.  I've had to manually "format->fdisk" the drive, and manually create a UFS filesystem on it.
• Participated in the CDS Cybersecurity review as a reviewer and as the secretary.
• All h(t) data from Livingston to Hanford has caught up with real time (minus publishing and LDR latency). Still waiting to start h(t) transfer from CIT.

General Computing (Wallace)

MIT

(Fred)

• Installed new nagios on tintagle (migrated conf).
• Rdiff-backup working well.
• Enabled ssl emvogil-3 (main web server)
• Setting up backup vacation calendar.

Livingston

(Shannon)

• Issued another cert using the CA set up at LLO.
• Further testing on Kerberos auth using the LSC roster.  A number of hours tied into this.  First successful test this week with Tyler's help, further testing ongoing.
• Further configuration of the core switch ongoing.  Additional VLANs set up, also VLANs are being propagated further to the edge switches.
• Sat on CDS security review this week.  Comments submitted to Kent.
• Reconfigured the IDS system at LLO to account for the new mirror ports on the core switch.

Hanford

(Christine)

• Worked a little with Mike to learn about the Primavera/Prism/VPN server that he set up for the Advanced LIGO group.
• Re-built a laptop for one of the Advanced LIGO contractors.  The laptop was having problems and most of the application software needed upgrading anyway.
• Helped a user with email problems.  There was a poorly formatted message in his Inbox and Thunderbird couldn't download the message.
• Worked with Technical Support at Symantec to fix the Veritas backup software.  No fix yet, I just sent all the core dump and messages files to the support person.
• Ordered another Sun V125 server to use as a back up application/license server.

Caltech

(Mike)

• Christian and I worked on assembling a server rack mount unit to add to B/A server room 18. We also installed a new UPS plus transformer in this unit as well.
• Worked in B/A server room 19 started swapping out servers into another rack mount unit to install another new UPS plus transformer. This is a continuous project.
• Worked up at LHO with Christine to help setup and configure a server for ADVLIGO Carol’s group. This also consisted of setting users workstation to connect to the new server. I also setup a VPN server to grant users from the ADVLIGO team an offsite connection to the Hanford network.
• Worked with Larry in trouble-shooting the backup mail server.

(Christian)

• Helena - Created a backup of Helena¹s laptop.
• Julie Hiroto- Created a backup of Julie¹s workstation and installed new Thunderbird mail client.
• Jay Marx- Installed and configured new network printer in jay¹s office.
• Charles Osthelder- Configured loaner laptop for Charles to use for the next few weeks.
• Aidan Brooks- Configured loaner laptop for Aidan to use on travel.
• Norna Robertson- Matlab license errors. Reinstalling the software fixed to problem.
• Dan Kozak- Configured MacBook laptop and installed the latest security patches.
• Patrick Sutton- created image of the laptop that was returned from Patrick.
• Toner cartridge replacements- 3flr W/B and 40 Meter.
• Minor tweaks on the Windows SUS server.
• Other misc.: Continued onsite software/phone support.

(Larry)

• Working a number of procurement items. Presently, waiting on some final quotes for the SUN systems. Placed orders for workstations, edge-switches, UPS units, print and a plotter, and other misc. items. Delivered items that have arrived.
• Did the close out of a number of visitors and students that have left.
• Worked/working with Mike on the UPS installation and equipment swap in room 19.
• Spent time getting the backup mail-server on-line. Fortunately, Mike had a spare card that worked as a replacement for the one that had failed on the unit. Stuart is taking care of the replacement and will supply us with a new card matching the one removed.
• Modified a number of accounts and mail aliases to accommodate different user requirements.
• Installed more application s/w on the sandbox units.
• Worked on some plotter issues. The main problem is that the unit just doesn't have enough memory to handle some of the jobs being sent to it. Christian is working on getting more memory installed and a newer unit has been ordered.
• Working on a couple of replacement installations.
• Regular end user support.

  AND THIS WEEK's REPORT ...

LDAS Software Systems (Maros/Lei)

• Starting to investigate what it would take to split the tclGlobus package into client and server packages to facilitate client applications which need to do certificate based authentication.
• Continuing work on integrating tests into the distribution. Currently working on integrating complex_data.tcl, database exception and putStandalone system tests.
• The changes for allowing cleanup to happen immediately via cmonClient (PR#3190)  have been committed to CVS.
• Version 1.9.39 was used for system testing. It was observed that the fracc6.tcl system test did not run. Examination revealed that the script was run in a directory for which the ldas user did not have read access. A new option has been added allowing the temporary directory to be specified on the command line.
• Modified some of the system tests to improve reliability.
  • (ML) cmonClient - working on PR 3190 - new page to support cleanup of ldas jobs and logs and updating of these resources.
  • (ML)  cntlmonAPI - PR 3190 - added some code to return log, purge and cleanup info and execute client commands to update these vars.
  • (ML)  Testing:
    • no system test and weekend test due to power shutdown making /scratch not available.
    • filed PR 3203 against dbaccess as it complains of gds_trigger non-unique process_id but process_id in gds_trigger is not a unique key field. But John Zweizig claims this is a dmt error.
    • updated diskcache resource STAT_TIMEOUT from 5 to 30 in memory per Igor's changes.
    • /ldas/bin/cmonClient does not work in a 64 bit environment as wish was not compiled with 64 bit ? And of course /ldcg/bin/wish cannot load 64 bit tclglobus so use of globus is out. I remember Ed said cmonClient can only be run on the user's desktop after 64 bit build but I need to confirm with Ed.  A PR has been filed for this issue.

LDAS System Administration (Anderson)

Caltech

(Dan Kozak)

• Did work to support power test and chilled water outage in Powell-Booth (moved export-dev T3 to UPS power, shutdown and restarted tape drives and silo).
• Talked with Xavi about h(t) situation, am now waiting on list of files from him.
• Did lots of 6140 work.  Final(?!) filesystems now built.
• Replaced bad frames on node153 & node154.
• Called in opterondata-cit crash to Sun.
• Did tape lists for shelf storage at LHO/LLO.
• Rearchived old damaged (at CIT) L0 file at LLO (should be arriving with this week's tapes).
• Worked with Xavi to determine what h(t) needs to be (re-)regenerated.  It seems like it's a smaller list than we'd feared...~2K files.
• Replaced failed 3510 disk.
• Ordered replacement for failed 6140 disk.
• Queried Virgo colleagues about problems they're having getting data from CIT.
• Restarted RLS at CIT after it started to refuse connections (it was still running, tho').
• Restarted Virgo publishing at CIT after RLS outage.
• Did a new tape import at CIT.
• Modified Disk2Disk at LLO according to the instructions in the Wiki to use fb0 as the source for raw frame files after fb1 started generating corrupt frames.
• Communicated with Sun kernel people about opterondata-cit crash.
• Monitored slow 3511 disk rebuild at LLO.
• Installed new ssh key in authorized_keys for 40m backup.

(Phil Ehrens)

• Ongoing support of MOU Review Website.
• General certificate management tasks.
• Contacted JMC fans regarding purchase of replacement fans for cluster nodes. No reply from them so far.
• Researched readily available materials appropriate for use as cluster node air filters. Best candidate so far is "white ScotchBrite", which has good mechanical characteristics (free-standing) and good anecdotal reports of use in this application.
• Various certificate management duties.
• MOU review support.
• Various cluster and server support activities.
• Discussed LDAS testing framework with Ed and Mary.
• Resolved various user support issues.

MIT

(Fred Donovan)

• Some nfs (v4, security) problems on osg-ligo cluster -- /etc/hosts related (?); purchase some disks; with Murali got condor & condor_probe reporting working again osg-ligo.
• Replaced disks data4/8/13. Some issues with condor jobs not starting (Brennan) -- /dso-test/home full, moving 10GB to make space.

Livingston

(Igor Yakushin)

• Restarted failed segment replication at CIT.
• Changed  ::STAT_TIMEOUT to 30 seconds in the /ldas_outgoing/diskcacheAPI/LDASdiskcache.rsc to deal with  "Could not execute lstat()" error. An attempt to do it in cmonClient crashed it.
• Working on moving version 1 DQ segments to version 0 since version 1 is reserved for coalesced segments.
• Disk id 9 in 3511-3 failed on Monday morning. For some unknown reason the rebuilding of the array on the hot spare takes an unreasonable amount of time: it started on Monday at 10am and is only 90% complete by now (normally it should take ~3 hours). Received the replacement disk from SUN. Waiting for rebuilding to complete before replacing the bad drive.
• Working on coalescing segments in the segment database.
• During weekends disk2disk stopped archiving fb1's raw frames since they failed FrCheck. That suspended createRDS, segment publishing, online jobs until disk2disk was reconfigured to take fb0 data instead.  After daq process on fb1 was restarted, fb1 started producing good frames again.

(Dwayne Giardina)

• Tape eject for shipment to CIT.
• Tape storage eject.
• fb1 /frames problems over the holiday weekend.   files from fb1 failed FrCheck.  we temporarily reconfigured disk2disk to use fb0.  after Lisa restarted the DAQ process on fb1, the files passed FrCheck.

Hanford

(Greg Mendell)

• The S5 SFTs generated from C03 hoft data for the first year of the run are on the nodes and published into the archive at CIT. These SFTs are available via LDR, and instruction have been sent to the CW group on how to find the files at CIT, how how to transfer them, for example to AEI.
• The past week I have been taking care of tapes, planning for ordering tapes after S5 ends, and making sure data archiving and transfers are up-to-date, e.g., after fb1 framebuilder problems at LLO over the weekend.  I am also doing some cyber-security work.

(Ben Johnson)

• Replaced batteries in a 2kVA UPS (powering the 4600) and in a 5kVA UPS (powering 6 T3s). The 2kVA is ok, but the 5kVA is still has blinking battery fill lights. The latter is powering the T3s though, and it does "test".
• Getting Solaris 10 installed on the X4500 has been very difficult, either with SOl 10 U3 install CD or the OpenSolaris n70 installer (I'll ultimately go with Sol 10 U3). Apparently, ZFS really takes over a disk and completely eliminating the EFI partitions it creates is a chore.  I've had to manually "format->fdisk" the drive, and manually create a UFS filesystem on it.
• Participated in the CDS Cybersecurity review as a reviewer and as the secretary.
• All h(t) data from Livingston to Hanford has caught up with real time (minus publishing and LDR latency). Still waiting to start h(t) transfer from CIT.
• Out of town for most of the past week.
• Responded to emails about the LLO L0 file corruption that occurred this past weekend.
• Downloaded and burned Sol 10 U4 DVDs (Sparc and X86). Will install Sol 10 U4 on X4500 today.

General Computing (Wallace)

MIT

(Fred)

• Installed new nagios on tintagle (migrated conf).
• Rdiff-backup working well.
• Enabled ssl emvogil-3 (main web server).
• Setting up backup vacation calendar.
• Laptops (xp, linux) issues (restore, xorg, wireless). mit-inventory audit.
• Deactivating about 25-30 items (old sparc5, sun external hdd, monitors, etc).
• Cybersecurity slides

Livingston

(Dwayne)

• Restored SEC image files to the website after mistakenly removing them.
• More tinkering with WebDAV over SSL, certificate issues, XP behavior. Webdrive works well on XP.
• A user is experiencing multiple problems with an older Mac PowerBook. Display backlight and now HD issues.
• Changed a couple settings in the kantech software on the operator PC.
• BeamScan PC was failing to boot due to HD trouble.  Using a BartPE disk Shannon created I was able to revive it.
• Replaced the tapes in the GC backup system.
• Replaced a transfer kit in the SEC printer.
• Installed a couple printers for a user.
• Re-imaged a couple old PCs for new users, one FC6 and one Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.
• Re-imaged an old Mac Powerbook.
• Other usual/unusual user support requests.
• Cleared spam trap.

(Shannon)

• Issued another cert using the CA set up at LLO.
• Further testing on Kerberos auth using the LSC roster.  A number of hours tied into this.  First successful test this week with Tyler's help, further testing ongoing.
• Further configuration of the core switch ongoing.  Additional VLANs set up, also VLANs are being propagated further to the edge switches.
• Sat on CDS security review this week.  Comments submitted to Kent.
• Reconfigured the IDS system at LLO to account for the new mirror ports on the core switch.
• Documentation for security review.
• Chased down a suspect infected computer.  False alarm, though the user was using BitTorrent.  There should be a blanket policy concerning various P2P software.
• Usual pouring through snort alerts, etc.
• Budget planning for end of the FY07 purchases.
• More VLAN configuration mods.
• New DNS additions.
• Testing an IDS management package.  Looks promising, couple of bugs so far, working through them.
• Spent much of Sunday and Labor Day working on Visio drawings and docs for the review and documentation's sake.

Hanford

(Christine)

• Worked a little with Mike to learn about the Primavera/Prism/VPN server that he set up for the Advanced LIGO group.
• Re-built a laptop for one of the Advanced LIGO contractors.  The laptop was having problems and most of the application software needed upgrading anyway.
• Helped a user with email problems.  There was a poorly formatted message in his Inbox and Thunderbird couldn't download the message.
• Worked with Technical Support at Symantec to fix the Veritas backup software.  No fix yet, I just sent all the core dump and messages files to the support person.
• Ordered another Sun V125 server to use as a back up application/license server.
• Put together some information for Larry to present at the LIGO Cybersecurity review.
• Worked most of the week on getting a new laptop set up for an Advanced LIGO contractor. Getting Primavera and Caltech's Discoverer working is not easy.  The fix for Primavera turned out to be pinging the server some how caused the client software to finally connect.  Still working on getting information to set up Caltech's Discoverer.
• Tried to re-build a laptop that had started acting flaky, but have been unable to re-format the disk or to re-install Windows.  Will try replacing the hard drive to see if that is the problem.
• Still providing information to Veritas support trying to get the tape backup software working.  I've had to download and install some software from Veritas that does debugging.
• Beginning Mon. Sept. 10, I will start blocking off-site access to the un-secure POP mail ports.  This will require every one to use SSH to access their email from off-site.
• Other misc. user support.

Caltech

(Mike)

• Christian and I worked on assembling a server rack mount unit to add to B/A server room 18. We also installed a new UPS plus transformer in this unit as well.
• Worked in B/A server room 19 started swapping out servers into another rack mount unit to install another new UPS plus transformer. This is a continuous project.
• Worked up at LHO with Christine to help setup and configure a server for ADVLIGO Carol’s group. This also consisted of setting users workstation to connect to the new server. I also setup a VPN server to grant users from the ADVLIGO team an offsite connection to the Hanford network.
• Worked with Larry in trouble-shooting the backup mail server.
• Worked with our group on moving equipment from one rack too another to swap out an existing UPS with a new UPS that has much more amperage to handle new up coming servers. This is an on going project.
• Working with Dwight and Christine @ LHO on Primavera installations, plus changes in the configuration on the VPN server that I setup in Hanford. Things seem to be working ok for now.
• Other daily sysadmin tasks.

(Christian)

• Helena - Created a backup of Helena¹s laptop.
• Julie Hiroto- Created a backup of Julie¹s workstation and installed new Thunderbird mail client.
• Jay Marx- Installed and configured new network printer in jay¹s office.
• Charles Osthelder- Configured loaner laptop for Charles to use for the next few weeks.
• Aidan Brooks- Configured loaner laptop for Aidan to use on travel.
• Norna Robertson- Matlab license errors. Reinstalling the software fixed to problem.
• Dan Kozak- Configured MacBook laptop and installed the latest security patches.
• Patrick Sutton- created image of the laptop that was returned from Patrick.
• Toner cartridge replacements- 3flr W/B and 40 Meter.
• Minor tweaks on the Windows SUS server.
• Other misc.: Continued onsite software/phone support.
• Jay Heefner- Configured new laptop with our Ligo standard image.
• Paul Russell- Installed Kronos plug-in on Paul's workstation.
• Florence Kaufman- Moved Florence?s workstation to conference room temporary for training purposes.
• Working on configuring Rolf?s new laptop.
• Worked on surplus property issues.
• Other misc.: Continued onsite software/phone support.

(Larry)

• Working a number of procurement items. Presently, waiting on some final quotes for the SUN systems. Placed orders for workstations, edge-switches, UPS units, print and a plotter, and other misc. items. Delivered items that have arrived.
• Did the close out of a number of visitors and students that have left.
• Worked/working with Mike on the UPS installation and equipment swap in room 19.
• Spent time getting the backup mail-server on-line. Fortunately, Mike had a spare card that worked as a replacement for the one that had failed on the unit. Stuart is taking care of the replacement and will supply us with a new card matching the one removed.
• Modified a number of accounts and mail aliases to accommodate different user requirements.
• Installed more application s/w on the sandbox units.
• Worked on some plotter issues. The main problem is that the unit just doesn't have enough memory to handle some of the jobs being sent to it. Christian is working on getting more memory installed and a newer unit has been ordered.
• Working on a couple of replacement installations.
• Regular end user support.
• Still working a number of procurement items. Ordered a few items and working on documentation for SUN and Foundry equipment purchases. Getting configurations for workstation and notebook procurements needed to replace outdated equipment. Installed and delivered some of the new equipment that has arrived. Tracking orders and working on a couple of maint. contract renewals.
• Worked with Mike on installing another UPS unit.
• Setup a couple of new accounts and went through the sign-out for a couple of students that have left.
• Working on documentation for Kent and the security review.
• Did a backup of the home accounts and working on backups of the servers themselves. Also, put some of the old backups to tape and have a few more to do.
• Lot more user support than usual. Logistical support in moving people around to offices, covering for different people on vacation, solving printer issues and then the usual account manipulations.
• Assisted in getting equipment put in storage in preparation for CIT property to take care of disposal.

Advanced LIGO and Supporting R&D (Shoemaker)

Advanced LIGO Management

From: Carol Wilkinson <wilkinson@ligo-wa.caltech.edu>

Upcoming Advanced LIGO Reviews:

• OMC SUS 2nd prototype fab readiness review,  Chair Ran Adhikari. Thursday 13th Sept at 8am PT. The wiki review site is at http://ilog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:7285/advligo/OMC_Suspension#reviews
• PSL Infrastructure, which includes the pump diode and laser enclosures, utilities upgrade / modifications, and safety documentation Chair: Doug Cook, Wednesday 12th September at 9 AM PT.

Advanced LIGO Systems

Modeling and Simulation

From: Sanichiro Yoshida <syoshida@selu.edu>

I put together our group's weekly for Hiro.

Modeling and simulation (Sany Yoshida)

• Based on Mark Barton's most updated mathematica model, Richard created a state space matrix in the e2e format. This model simulates the Adv LIGO quad suspension taking the violin dynamics into account. We tested the model by including the state space matrix in our e2e quad sus code. For the position (translational motion normal to the mirror surface) DOF, the resultant power spectrum shows a peak around 420 Hz, as expected.

e2e Weekly meeting

Attendees: Osamu Miyakawa, Richard Williams (SLU undergraduate student) and Sany Yoshida

We discussed the progress on e2e modeling of the Advanced LIGO baseline HAM seismic isolation. The Southeastern team has made an e2e model based on a matlab model provided by the SWG. The computed table top motion seems to be reasonable, but needs to be verified by the SWG. Osamu confirmed that he could still use the simplified HAM seismic isolation model for his e2e Advanced LIGO optics simulation so that the Southeastern team would have some time to verify the HAM seismic isolation model. We also discussed possible Southeastern student's visit to Tama next summer.

Static IFO simulation (Hiro)

Hiro was on vacation.

Modeler : e2e simulation engine and ALFI : e2e front end (Hiro, Bruce, Melody)

(Melody Araya)

ALFI

• Worked on the draft for the Use of User-Defined Primitives in ALFI. Integrated Bruce's changes into the document.
• Installed a standalone version of ALFI 6.6.2 in Hiro's laptop.

CDS Prestabilized Laser

From: Peter King <pking@ligo.caltech.edu>

• In going over the requirements for the laser diode enclosure, I found that the interface document was sadly out of date - it dates from when the laser still had an injection-locked front end.  I have been updating the interface and signals, keeping in mind the division between local control by the Beckhoff Automation hardware and EPICS.
• I finally finished laying out the circuit board for a quadrant photodetector. Parts for said board arrived from Digi-Key.
• Benno has started drafting a testing plan.  It's in point form at the moment as we are deciding which tests to include (and where).

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