Reports until 11:02, Wednesday 19 August 2015
H1 CDS
john.zweizig@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:02, Wednesday 19 August 2015 (20682)
DMT software upgrade
Yesterday I completed installing the updated DMT software (gds-2.17.2) and its dependencies on the DMT Machines at both observatories. This includes (but is not limited to) new versions of:

 * h(t) calibration pipeline (gstlal-calibration-0.4.0)
 * SenseMonitor
 * Omega trigger generation from h(t) improved, configured and run continuously.
 * Improved monitoring of the DMT run status.

A few notes:

The latest version of SenseMonitor contains the improved anti-aliasing filtering using the decimation function written long ago by Peter for dtt. This fixes the problem that was noted at the start of ER7 where noise ner the Nyquist frequency was folded down to near DC due to inadequate anti-aliasing.

The version of the h(t) calibration pipeline was introduced because it is packaged with the new gds infrastructure. I am not qualified to comment on this verison of the pipeline, but from what I understand, it continues to run in a mode using the same calibration algorithm as the package it replaces. Further updates will be needed to start makeing the additional corrections under development by the calibration group.

The new monitoring functionality continues to generate the DMT Spi page showing the status of all monitors running. It now does a better job of checking that all monitor processes are reading data from one of the shared memory partitions. This is especially useful for monitors that were reading the calibrated h(t) data.