A typical WXM session

• On the Pizza Box
• On the satellite

On the Pizza Box

This is an example transcript, with explanations, of what I do in a typical session of running the WXM software on the pizza box.

Let us assume that I am running on the LANL XG 2-node pizza box hooked up to Ed Fenimore's NeXT machine lahete. I will start the CNS and other support programs on the sun sparc20 machine insight.

1. In a window on insight, I run

   pbstartup 4 lahete 4444 -d
   

   This will start all the software needed to talk to the pizza box.
2. Start the WXM specific programs archiver and putsd:

   cd $HETEDIR/source/xray/ground/logs
   /bin/rm -f jjj archive_*
   archiver &
   putsd > jjj &
   

3. Change to another virtual screen and run Jim Krone's perl script

   gsmonitor.pl
   

   This puts up a few windows that, among other things, show you a tail -f ar* | read_archive -x - and a tail -f jjj.
4. Start up the WXM software by typing

   boots.rosalia
   

5. Now I just sit and watch the windows that look at the read_archive and putsd output. Occasionally I run commands like

   tickle 2049 8224 1; sleep 90; tickle 2049 8224 9
   

   This command simulates a burst (in the sense that the trigger detects the temporary increase and makes all of the burst-processing software act).

On the satellite

The main ground processes that control the satellite (the equivalent of pbstartup) will typically have been started up at MIT. Here's what needs to be done for the WXM part, assuming that the CNS is being run on moe.mit.edu, and pseudogs on mitgaard.mit.edu.

• In local windows, run

  telnet moe.mit.edu 5121
  telnet moe.mit.edu 5122
  telnet moe.mit.edu 5123
  telnet moe.mit.edu 9011
  

• Start up putsd and archiver; for example:

  cd $HETEDIR/source/xray/ground/sc_logs/951121
  (archiver )
  (putsd > jjj &)
  

• Bring up windows to view the putsd and read_archive output. In one window type:

  tail -f $HETEDIR/source/xray/ground/sc_logs/951121/jjj
  

  and in the other:

  tail +0f $HETEDIR/source/xray/ground/sc_logs/951121/ar* | read_archive -x -- -
  

• Boot the software:

  bootproc $HOME/transputer/btl/XG.btl xg 4
  sleep 20
  bootproc $HETEDIR/source/xray/xdsp/xdsp-2.5/xdsp.hld xgdsp0 4
  

• Turn on power to the instrument with

  tickle 2064 8300
  

• Turn on noise counts from wire 0 (XA0):

  tickle 2048 8203 24607  #NOTE: = 16#601F = 2#0110,0000,0001,1111
  

  to turn on other wires (XA1, XA2, XB0, XB1, ...)

  tickle 2048 8203 25119  #NOTE: = 16#601F = 2#0110,0010,0001,1111
  tickle 2048 8203 25631  #NOTE: = 16#601F = 2#0110,0100,0001,1111
  tickle 2048 8203 26655  #NOTE: = 16#601F = 2#0110,1000,0001,1111
  tickle 2048 8203 27167  #NOTE: = 16#601F = 2#0110,1010,0001,1111
  tickle 2048 8203 27679  #NOTE: = 16#601F = 2#0110,1100,0001,1111
  tickle 2048 8203 28703  #NOTE: = 16#601F = 2#0111,0000,0001,1111
  tickle 2048 8203 29215  #NOTE: = 16#601F = 2#0111,0010,0001,1111
  tickle 2048 8203 29727  #NOTE: = 16#601F = 2#0111,0100,0001,1111
  tickle 2048 8203 30751  #NOTE: = 16#601F = 2#0111,1000,0001,1111
  tickle 2048 8203 31263  #NOTE: = 16#601F = 2#0111,1010,0001,1111
  tickle 2048 8203 31775  #NOTE: = 16#601F = 2#0111,1100,0001,1111
  

• Turn off power with:

  tickle 2064 8301