Evolving the CRL

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Evolving the CRL

• Evolution path for Fermilabs Electronic Logbook

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What we know

• Electronic logbooks are here to stay
• Paper logs are no longer desirable.
• We know what we need and how to do it.
• We get many requests for logbooks.
• CRL has been recommended by ILC TA Logbook
  Evaluation task force on the merits of
• Architecture and ability to evolve
• Features
• Maturity
• Ambiguous support leaves users puzzled and wastes
  resources
• Three in house choices (AD, TD, CD), without
  clear recommendation
• Each logbook needs to be supported (each 0.1 -
  0.3 FTE)
• Each project has to do its own evaluation (6
  people 2 months)
• Some come to the conclusion to write their own
  ( 1 FTE)
• HEPBook is no longer an evolution path for the
  CRL
• Leaves us without a plan.

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Current CRL users

• D0 537,000 Entries
• Minos 54,000
• MIPP28,000
• MiniBooNE22,000
• CMS HCAL?
• CMS Pixel1,200
• Dark Energy Survey122
• ILCTA2000
• MuCool 2

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Recent (documented) Requests

• 9/14/06 GLAST/SLAC for evaluation, Tony Johnson
  see https//confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/
  ISOC/FermilabControlRoomlogbook
• 9/10/06 Minerva for evaluation, David Boehnlein
  dave_b_at_fnal.gov
• 9/7/06 MuCool (Gary Ganster)
• 8/16/06 Auger Surface Detector (SD)
  lebrun_at_fnal.gov
• 8/10/06 ILCTA votava_at_fnal.gov
• 7/20/06 OPERA marcos.dracos_at_cern.ch 
• 7/12/06 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
  jeeva_at_mailhost.tifr.res.in
• 5/5/06 Dark Energy Survey buckley_at_fnal.gov
• 4/18/06 SuperK, jlraaf_at_fnal.gov
• 1/31/06 FNAL, Adam Para, para_at_fnal.gov
• 11/21/05 CMS CERN, ichiro_at_fnal.gov
• 11/5/05 MuCool Test Area ,Illinois Institute of
  Technology, torun_at_iit.edu

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Goal

• Evolve and renovate the CRL to fill the need for
  an electronic logbook at Fermilab and for its
  collaborators.
• Provide
• New Features, the logbook should provide new
  features as new requirements and new technology
  arises (such as security)
• Support, qualified users should be able to
  request a logbook and have it available within a
  few hours.
• Service, the logbook should be available as a
  service. CD provides web server and database.
• Open source, the logbook should become open
  source so that collaborations spanning countries
  can adapt it and contribute.

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Stakeholders in 2 - 5 years from now

• LHC
• LPC
• LHC_at_FNAL does not have its own logbook. Uses
  CMS and LHC Accelerator logbook
• CMS is driven by CERNs electronic logbook
  choice. Currently not the CRL
• ILC
• Uses CRL for test area
• Astrophysics
• Uses CRL for Dark Energy
• Neutrino Experiments
• CRL is used for Minos and MiniBooNE

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Tasks

• Immediate Development on the CRL
• ILC Test Area installation (completed)
• Security based on passwords, SSL certificates,
  and Kerberos. (in progress)
• Evolution Development
• Renovated Data Format a universal
  machine-readableformat that allows automated
  processing of data data mining, and conversion
  to multiple presentation forms.
• Searching Indexing of entry text for word
  searching (Lucene). Searching attachments.
• Full Annotations Allow images and attachments in
  annotations.
• Deployment Quicker and Easier deployment/configur
  ation management.
• User Interface Refine the user interface to make
  it easier to configure on an individual and
  installation basis

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Migrating Existing Logbooks

• Migrating a logbook should be evaluated on an
  individual basis.
• CRL There are many installations of the CRL. D0
  and Minos will want to migrate, others will not.
• TD A migration strategy from the TD logbook to
  the CRL should be part of this plan.
• AD It is unlikely that the MCR will migrate to
  the new logbook. New projects in the AD will be
  encouraged to choose the new logbook. If the CRL
  is mature and available, it may be attractive for
  AD after RUN II.

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Resources

• Important to include Computer Pros from all three
  divisions.
• Immediate feature development (security, minor
  requests from ILC, and maintenance of current CRL
  2006)
• AD 0.3 FTE (A.Petrov)
• CD 0.3 FTE (S.Gysin)
• TD 0.1 FTE (J.Nogiec)
• Evolution 1.5 - 2 years)
• AD 0.5 FTE (A.Petrov)
• CD 0.5 FTE (S.Gysin)
• TD 0.5 FTE (J.Nogiec)

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Next Steps

• Start on immediate development tasks
• Implement security and upgrade the existing
  installations
• Receive a charge and commitment of resources from
  ??

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Summary

• Fermilab needs an electronic logbook
• CRL has been chosen by ILC TA Logbook Evaluation
  Task Force from 8 candidates
• HEPBook is no longer an evolution path for the
  logbook
• Ambiguous support leaves users puzzled and wastes
  resources
• Proposal Evolve/renovate the CRL for FNAL and
  its collaborators
• Inter-division team 0.5 FTE from each AD, CD, TD
  for 2 years.