Control Room Logbook (CRL

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Control Room Logbook (CRL

• Abstract
• Goals and Stakeholders
• Participants, Timeline, and Deliverables
• Issues

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Abstract

• The CRL is an electronic logbook used to capture
  control room activity.
• Large feature set text, images, thumbnails,
  forms, binary files, hand drawn entries,
  programmatically added entries, web interface for
  remote searching and viewing, text formatting,
  keywords, email, scheduled entries, multiple
  desktops, cut and paste, platform independent,
  vendor independent, and highly configurable.
• Technologies Java and XML
• Second generation, the HEPBook, is in progress as
  an SBIR by Gary Roediger and Pat Pomatto

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Goals and Stakeholders

• Goals
• Deliver new features and bug fixes
• Installation for CMS, BTeV and other new users
• Release remote access
• Upgrade to the HEPBook
• Stakeholder Organizations
• D0 (170,000 entries), Minos, MiniBooNE, BTeV
  Pixel, CMS (3 installations) with one moving to
  CERN in May.

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Participants, Timeline, and Deliverables

• Participants
• Philippe Canal (10), Gary Roediger (HEPBook),
  Pat Pomatto (HEPBook), Mark Leininger (20),
  Suzanne Panacek (10)
• Timeline and Deliverables
• Installation for CMS HCAL this week, plan to move
  it to CERN in May.
• Release with remote access, next month
• Upgrade to HEPBook available end of the year
• Deliverables are
• Java application, Web interface, Process logger,
  and documentation.
• Deployed in AFS, kits, and downloadable from the
  web.

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Issues

• Having CMS as a user brings new challenges.
• Does CERN want to use the CRL? Do they want to
  support it there?
• Start small, with only the HCAL group, then add
  the other groups. Very important for CRL.
• HEPBook Upgrade
• Avoid developing same features twice (CRL and
  HEPBook)
• The HEPBook is designed to be a general
  collaboration notebook that can run on laptop. It
  will attract many more users with diverse
  interests. At that time we will ramp up support.

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Issues

• Experiments web pages
• The current assumption that all experiments
  maintain their own web interface is not
  realistic. Technically feasible, not accepted by
  D0, problems with releasing fixes.
• We will have to assume some support for the
  experiments web pages.
• To support the CRL, the web interfaces, and the
  HEPBook
• request one person 60 to ramp up full time by
  end of the year.