Scalers
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Hardware Configuration
- HMS scalers are a VME crate. The cpu is hcvme05.
- SHMS scalers are a VME crate. The cpu is hcvme08.
Scaler Software
Scaler Server
- To directly read the scalers
- login is as cdaq on cdaql1
- cd daq16/crl/RPC
- execute: ./getscalers hcvme05 for HMS
- execute: ./getscalers hcvme08 for SHMS
- There is an option to clear the scalers, put please do not do this in the middle of the run!
Read scalers using GUI (xscaler)
- Login as cdaq to cdaql1
- cd daq16/hallc_xscaler
- To see HMS scalers type: ./xscaler HMS
- To see SHMS scalers type: ./xscaler SHMS
- In the directory, the file, scaler.map, is used to map the names to the scaler crate,slot and chan.