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11448
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Mon Jul 27 17:51:06 2015 |
Eve | Update | Summary Pages | New summary page tabs and other improvements | The summary pages can still be found at https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:30889/detcharsummary/ (EDIT:
in an older version of this post I listed |
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11447
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Mon Jul 27 16:47:53 2015 |
ericq | Update | IOO | MC2 -> MCL Actuator TF | Our noise cancellation SURFS will be doing
online subtraction on the mode cleaner length,
among other things. |
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11446
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Fri Jul 24 23:08:53 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | PEM | MC1 accelerators moved for future huddle test | I have moved the MC1 accelerators and cable
to the huddle test set up, in order to see
how a six witness huddle test with the improved |
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11445
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Fri Jul 24 20:32:15 2015 |
ericq | Update | Electronics | LSC LO distribution box power button replaced | As happened with the RF distribution box
in the IOO rack a while back, the shiny blue
power button in the LSC LO distribution box |
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11444
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Fri Jul 24 18:12:52 2015 |
Max Isi | Update | General | Data missing | For the past couple of days, the summary
pages have shown minute trend data disappear
at 12:00 UTC (05:00 AM local time). This |
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11443
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Fri Jul 24 13:49:09 2015 |
Steve | Update | safety | Lock doors please ! | Thursday morning I found the control room
emergency exit not locked.
Please check the doors when leaving |
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11442
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Thu Jul 23 21:12:14 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | General | Newer accelerometer huddle test data + detrending | In the last post concerning the self noise
of the accelerometers, I mentioned the differences
between the two data sets I was playing with. |
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11441
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Thu Jul 23 20:57:15 2015 |
Jessica | Summary | General | Applying Pre-filter to data before IIR Wiener Filtering | I updated my bandpass filter and have |
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11440
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Thu Jul 23 20:54:42 2015 |
Jessica | Update | General | ALS Delay Line Box | The front panels for the ALS delay |
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11439
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Thu Jul 23 15:41:41 2015 |
Steve | Update | PEM | fitting ants with TERRO | Pasadena got 0.2" of rain on
Saturday. Temperatures were high with high
humidity since than.The ants were back in |
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11438
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Thu Jul 23 03:09:05 2015 |
ericq | Update | LSC | aLIGO demod board lives! | I'm a little mystified. Peeking inside
the aLIGO demod board, I saw that the reason
that two of the channels weren't working |
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11437
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Wed Jul 22 22:06:42 2015 |
Eve | Summary | Summary Pages | Future summary pages improvements | - CDS Tab
We want to monitor the status of the |
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11436
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Wed Jul 22 15:09:40 2015 |
ericq | Update | General | IMC work | The other night, I spent some time with
the mode cleaner.
First, I made some model changes |
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11435
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Wed Jul 22 14:10:04 2015 |
ericq | Update | CDS | RCG Diagnostics | Now that we've seemed to landed on
a working configuration, I've re-ran
the tests first described in ELOG |
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11434
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Tue Jul 21 21:33:22 2015 |
Max Isi | Update | General | Summary pages moved to 40m LDAS account | The summary pages are now generated from
the new 40m
LDAS account. The nodus URL (https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:30889/detcharsummary/) |
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11433
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Tue Jul 21 21:25:18 2015 |
Max Isi | Update | General | 40m LDAS account | A shared LIGO Data Grid (LDG) account was
created for use by the 40m lab. The purpose
of this account is to provide access to the |
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11432
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Tue Jul 21 05:17:09 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | General | More clear accelerometer huddle tests results | I generated the following plots from the
two sets of huddle test data we have for
the accelerometers. |
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11431
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Mon Jul 20 16:45:15 2015 |
Max Isi | Configuration | General | Summary page c1sus.ini error corrected | Bad syntax errors in the c1sus.ini config
file were causing the summary pages to crash:
a plot type had not been indicated for plots |
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11430
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Mon Jul 20 11:57:17 2015 |
ericq | Update | General | Arm Locking recovered | The interferometer is warming up!
I had some issues locking the IMC
at first. It turned out that the MC3 side |
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11429
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Sat Jul 18 16:59:01 2015 |
jamie | Update | CDS | unloaded, turned off loading of, symmetricom kernel module on fb | fb has been loading a 'symmetricom'
kernel module, presumably because it was
once being used to help with timing. |
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11428
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Sat Jul 18 16:03:00 2015 |
jamie | Update | CDS | EPICS freezes persist | I notice that the periodic EPICS freezes
persist. They last for 5-10 seconds.
MEDM completely freezes up, but then it comes |
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11427
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Sat Jul 18 15:37:19 2015 |
Jamie | Summary | CDS | CDS upgrade: current status | So it appears we have found a semi-stable
configuration for the DAQ system post upgrade:
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11426
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Sat Jul 18 14:55:33 2015 |
jamie | Update | General | all front ends back up and running | After some surgery yesterday the front
ends are all back up and running:
Eric found that one of |
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11425
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Sat Jul 18 06:12:07 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | General | MCL Wiener filtering + FIR to IIR conversion using vectfit (Update) | (updateAfter Eric gave me feedback on my
previous elog post, I went back and fixed
some of the silly stuff I stated. |
15x |
11424
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Fri Jul 17 04:56:37 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | General | MCL Wiener filtering + FIR to IIR conversion using vectfit |
We took data for the mode cleaner
a while ago, June 30th I believe. This data |
9x |
11423
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Fri Jul 17 02:46:07 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | General | New huddle test data for Wilcoxon 731A results | On Thursday, new huddle test data for the
Wilcoxon 731A was aquired by Eric.
The difference between this new |
6x |
11422
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Thu Jul 16 16:46:18 2015 |
ericq | Update | General | Starting IFO recovery, DAC troubles | Jamie showed me how to use the SDF system.
We created new safe.snap files
for all of the running models based on the |
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11421
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Thu Jul 16 16:33:56 2015 |
Jessica | Update | General | Added Bode Plots of Bandpass Filter | I updated the bandpass filter I was using,
finding that having different stopband attenuations
before and after the passband better |
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11420
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Thu Jul 16 11:18:37 2015 |
jamie | Update | General | Starting IFO recovery, DAC troubles |
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11419
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Thu Jul 16 03:01:57 2015 |
ericq | Update | LSC | Old beatbox hooked back up | I was having issues trying to get reasonable
noise performance out of the aLIGO demod
board as an ALS DFD. Terminating the inputs |
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11418
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Thu Jul 16 01:04:21 2015 |
ericq | Update | General | Starting IFO recovery, DAC troubles | I've been trying to start recovering
IFO functionality, but quickly hit a frustrating
roadblock. |
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11417
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Wed Jul 15 18:19:12 2015 |
Jamie | Summary | CDS | CDS upgrade: tentative stabilty? | Keith Thorne provided his eyes on the situation
today and had some suggestions that might
have helped things |
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11416
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Wed Jul 15 17:05:06 2015 |
Jessica | Update | General | Bandpass Pre-Filter created | I applied a bandpass filter to the accelerometer
huddle data as a pre-filter. The passband
was from 5 Hz to 20 Hz. I found that |
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11415
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Wed Jul 15 13:19:14 2015 |
Jamie | Summary | CDS | CDS upgrade: reducing mx end-points as last ditch effort | I tried one last thing, suggested by Keith
and Gerrit. I tried reducing the number
of mx end-points on fb to zero, which should |
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11414
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Tue Jul 14 17:14:23 2015 |
Eve | Summary | Summary Pages | Future summary pages improvements | Here is a list of suggested improvements
to the summary pages. Let me know if there's
something you'd like for me to add to |
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11413
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Tue Jul 14 17:06:00 2015 |
jamie | Update | CDS | running test on daqd, please leave undisturbed | I have reverted daqd to the previous configuration,
so that it's writing frames to disk.
It's still showing instability. |
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11412
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Tue Jul 14 16:51:01 2015 |
Jamie | Summary | CDS | CDS upgrade: problem is not disk access | I think I have now determined once and
for all that the daqd problems are NOT due
to disk IO contention. |
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11411
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Tue Jul 14 16:47:18 2015 |
Eve | Update | Summary Pages | Summary page updates continue during upgrade | I've continued to make changes to the
summary pages on my own environment, which
I plan on implementing on the main summary |
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11410
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Tue Jul 14 13:55:28 2015 |
jamie | Update | CDS | running test on daqd, please leave undisturbed | I'm running a test with daqd right
now, so please do not disturb for the moment.
I'm
temporarily writing frames into a tempfs, |
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11409
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Tue Jul 14 11:57:27 2015 |
jamie | Summary | CDS | CDS upgrade: left running in semi-stable configuration |
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11408
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Tue Jul 14 10:28:02 2015 |
ericq | Summary | CDS | CDS upgrade: left running in semi-stable configuration | There remains a pattern to some of the
restarts, the following times are all
reported as restart times. (There are others |
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11407
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Tue Jul 14 10:23:27 2015 |
Ignacio | Update | General | Optimal detector array placement thoughts | Over the past few days, I've been thinking
about how to workout the details conerning
Rana's request about a 'map' |
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11406
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Tue Jul 14 09:08:37 2015 |
Jamie | Summary | CDS | CDS upgrade: left running in semi-stable configuration | Overnight daqd restarted itself only about
twice an hour, which is an improvement:
controls@fb /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/target/fb |
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11405
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Mon Jul 13 18:27:27 2015 |
Eve | Configuration | General | How to set up your own summary page environment on the LDG cluster | I'd like to build off of Koji's
instructions with a few useful tips I discovered
while setting up my own summary page |
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11404
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Mon Jul 13 18:12:50 2015 |
Jamie | Summary | CDS | CDS upgrade: left running in semi-stable configuration | I have been watching daqd all day and I
don't feel particularly closer to understanding
what the issues are. However, things |
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11403
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Mon Jul 13 14:08:10 2015 |
ericq | Update | Electronics | New RF amps, housed | I made a little box for the new RF amplifiers
we'll be using for the green beatnotes,
to keep things tidy on the PSL table. They |
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11402
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Mon Jul 13 01:11:14 2015 |
Jamie | Summary | CDS | CDS upgrade: current assessment | daqd is still behaving unstably.
It's still unclear what the issue is.
The current failures look like |
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11401
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Fri Jul 10 17:57:38 2015 |
Max Isi | Update | General | Summary pages down | The summary pages are currently unstable
due to priority issues on the cluster*. The
plots had been empty ever since the CDS updated |
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11400
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Thu Jul 9 16:50:13 2015 |
Jamie | Summary | CDS | CDS upgrade: if all else fails try throwing metal at the problem | I roped Rolf into coming over and adding
his eyes to the problem. After much
discussion we couldn't come up with any |
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11399
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Thu Jul 9 16:39:03 2015 |
Koji | Configuration | General | How to set up your own summary page environment on the LDG cluster | Here is the summary of my investigation
how to set up my own "summary page"
environment on the LDG (LIGO Data Grid) cluster. |
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